2 car garages

[xhooligan_skeeterx]

Let's see your two car garages!
Trying to figure out a good lay out and for the best use of the space I have. I currently have 2 old cars and quite a few tools and different things I've made in mine and just wondering who else might have 25 pounds of **** crammed into a 10 pound bag. Just looking for ideas and how you made the best of your space.

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[astroracer]

How big? 26 x 28 is a good size. One 16' door in the middle to give you room on the sides of the building for benches, tools and working room. Whatever you do keep the OH doors at least 4' off the inside walls for this reason.
Mark

 

[xhooligan_skeeterx]

I'm honestly not sure what the actual measurements are on my garage but I think it's 25x25... but I'll get the actual measurements after work when I get home today. But I have 2 doors and an open floor plan with no posts or anything in the center.
*I'd like to see some pictures of others 2 car garages and see what they've done. Especially if they have cars, tools, welders and what not.

How big? 26 x 28 is a good size. One 16' door in the middle to give you room on the sides of the building for benches, tools and working room. Whatever you do keep the OH doors at least 4' off the inside walls for this reason.
Mark

You can see kinda what I'm working with and on in these pictures. Like I said I'm trying to make the most of my space and figure out what's gonna be my best bet layout wise.

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[Nocuffs]

It’s a tight fit. But I get two cars in it.

 

[astroracer]

Ahh.... You HAVE a garage already... I thought you were asking about building one...
The BEST thing you can do is put everything on casters. Everything in my shop is mounted on casters. That way the layout can change to whatever you need it to be.
I have my hydraulic press on casters, my Pexto stomp shear is on casters, my 3 in 1, 5 mobile work benches, jig tables, air compressor, nut and bolt bins, scroll saw, etc., etc.
Having it all on casters makes for easy layout changes, cleaning, rolling equipment outside to work, etc.
here is a pic with a chassis I am building on Harbor freight furniture dollies and my blast cabinet that I can roll outside to use if the weather is nice...

A few of my mobile work benches. The white one has a steel top for welding and grinding, the black one under the bench can come out for wood working or whatever.

The Harbor freight furniture dollies are the best bang for your buck for casters. Whether you use them "as is" or take them apart and repurpose them.
Mark

 

[CraigStu]

One thing you could do would be to build a shelf 12-16 inches deep about 16 inches down from the ceiling boards. On at least three walls. Then grab some plastic tubs from HD or L during a sale. You can store a ton of stuff that isn't used often up there out of the way. Also a step ladder that is tall enough to get you up into the attic area can be hanged from you ceiling boards. I put a piece of rope w/ a loop on both ends through just under the top non-step. In about the center of the shop one end of the rope was permanently hooked to an eye bolt & the other end used a heavy duty dog leash connector to another eye bolt. Now a piece of rope from the bottom of the ladder up to a pulley in the ceiling, over through another pulley in the ceiling near the wall, and down the wall to a cleat. Pull the ladder up and tie off the rope to store it. Let it down and open it up to use to access the attic. If needed for another purpose climb up and disconnect the dog leash rope end. Climb back down, collapse the ladder and carry it wherever you need it.

 

[bdbecker]

Here's a thread with links to a bunch of smaller garage builds:
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=360107

 

[xhooligan_skeeterx]

Thanks guys! I'll check out the links and see what I can do to work off some of the suggestions.

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