24 x 42 Garage Build

[ansehnlich1]

We are in the process of building a 24 x 42 garage. She's underway as seen below. She'll be 2 story with attic trusses, and she'll pretty well match the attached garage of the house.

The front, starting from the left, is 119 in. to the double garage door opening, which is 195 inches, then to the right of the garage door opening is another 119 in. to the 38 in. access door opening, then 33 in. to the right corner. That totals 504 in. which is 42 feet and the mason has it right on. The garage door will be 8 ft. high. There's a 36in. entry door on the left side facing and it's 48 in. from the corner.

There will be an interior wall separating my wife's 'shop' from the 'man cave'. We plan stairs in the right side shop area, and a double door between the two areas.

2x6 walls, 50 amp service, and other than dimension it is to match the existing garage as close as feasible.

 

[NUTTSGT]

24x42, that's a nice size, what do you plan on using it for ?

 

[Nighttrain]

Man that's going to be nice. I really like all that green stuff you have in the yard. Please keep us updated with pictures. Is the barn behind your build yours or a neighbors?

 

[ansehnlich1]

Well I'll tell ya, the new garage is going to be for plain old residential storage of stuff I use around here, my little Mazda will park in there, the lawn and garden equipment, tractor, chainsaws, mowers, snowblowers, and such.

I'm no mechanic, so there will be no lift. However, I've a lifetime in working furniture, and repair/refinish for profit, usually used stuff that's busted up or well worn, and I'll set up shop in there for sure. (buy low, sell high!)

That bank barn, and the tin shed attached, that's my dad's property. He's a private pilot, his cessna is in that warehouse to the right there We built right next door. We had a retail furniture store for years and the barn and that tin shed was warehouse. There's a whole attached building in front of that barn, and there's an antique store in there now, run by family. I think the whole mess is 18,000 sq. ft.

You should get into that barn, it's in near new shape inside, built by the Germans, you know, hand hewn white oak beams, pinned, big wide floorboards. She'll likely stand another 100 years easy.

So, we mow grass, lots of grass. And its green, haha! Grass runway. Grass everywhere. We have this Ford, 6 foot belly mower, hook up a swisher 5 footer behind it, and mow 11 feet in one cut. If there's two of us, one gets on the diesel grasshopper and we can cut 16 feet in one round

Anyhow, there'll be a wall in the new garage, separating about a 12 x 24 area to the right side, for my lovely wife. She's an antique...r, and she specializes in old pottery. We're gonna fix her up with a nice, insulated, drywalled,
heated and air conditioned shop, yes we are.

One more thing, you can see a windmill in the pic, that's the neighbors. It's not operating, the cost to replace the bearing in it is more than he wants to spend. He's sitting on about 400 acres over there, I used to help farm it when I was a kid. Back then it was wheat, rye, and barley. We had an old wire tie baler and would put out, if I recall, 15 to 20,000 bales in a summer, we'd stack 'em in the fields in stacks big as barns. Now it's wheat, then soybean.

Whew, I must be gettin' old, tend to ramble eh?