Hello, I just joined but have followed many of the posts here over the years. I have a decent size 2 car garage today, 24x26, with a 4 post hoist and I keep it very organized to have workspaces as well. This works for me but I am looking at a new home with a 3 car garage with one bay that is walled in separately and is also a tandem. This bay measures 36ft long but is only 10ft wide wall to wall. Both the front and rear of this bay have an 8 foot garage door which is great. My concern is the 10ft width and if I am going to regret this down the line, it's fine for parking and my hoist will also fit, but working on a car could be difficult. The space would be used for my 70 Mach 1. Rest of the house is perfect, but it is a subdivision so no chance to build a separate shop out back. I'd love it to be 12ft wide, but I don't know if this is a deal breaker for me. If I need to have the doors open to work on the mustang I guess I could move it into the main 2 car garage. Any experience out there using a similar sized garage bay out there for a classic car ?
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3 car garage width
- Thread starter Canuck72
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mrhemi426
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I used a 10 x 30 mini storage unit as my garage for years (long story). It really only provided enough room to open the driver's door partially to get in and out of (69 Dodge Charger). Not really the best for accomplishing work, although I made do.
txvwnut
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I would look and see if part of the wall can be removed to open up into the rest of the garage.
Stuart in MN
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You'll probably have some difficulty finding a house that has a garage any wider than that, the vast majority are built for parking only and aren't built with working on cars in mind.
Ohmthis
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Exactly! I’d remove the wall (as long as it’s not load bearing) and open up the space.I would look and see if part of the wall can be removed to open up into the rest of the garage.
Bearded_Dragon
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I had the same experience, 10' wide is too narrow.I used a 10 x 30 mini storage unit as my garage for years (long story). It really only provided enough room to open the driver's door partially to get in and out of (69 Dodge Charger). Not really the best for accomplishing work, although I made do.
CraigStu
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If you can't remove the wall, I bet you could remove part of it. Look how the header over your 2 car garage door is constructed. If you could make a 16ft hole in that wall....or even 12ft. But putting the hoist in there?? What kind of hoist?
logical
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It's unfortunate that a builder was either restricted somehow to only go 10 ft wide, or worse yet if they somehow thought that it was wide enough for anything other than lawnmower and bicycle storage. I wouldn't buy the place with plans to use that space for any automotive work beyond installing new license plates...unless you are able to tear out some of the wall to join to the main garage.
It's possible it wasn't even intended for cars.
It's possible it wasn't even intended for cars.
CraigStu
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Since everything else about the house is perfect, I might buy it. 10ft is marginal but doable w/ the 2 car as backup space. And having 36ft w/ a door at both ends gets you a 'shed' in the back for lawn stuff that has a real door and a concrete floor. Win! Think about driving the Mach 1 in and easing close to the right side wall. Plenty of room to get out the driver side. Might even put the 4 post in the 2 car area farthest from the house so you wife doesn't have to deal w/ it but you can park your daily driver on it.
PCMusicGuy
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10 ft wide is too small even for just parking
firebirdparts
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15 is pretty good for working on a car. 12 is about right for parking.