Adding to garage ideas??

[winger99]

Hello. I'm trying to figure out a way to add on to my garage to help keep my truck out of the weather. I'm not having much luck thinking of ways to do this. Any suggestions would be appreciated. In the picture below, the property line ends on the left of the garage where the fencing gets darker. Would extending the roof of the garage out to the front corner of the house be doable?

http://imgur.com/49gleFV

 

[southalabama]

Any way to extend the back of the garage and then use the existing garage for its intended purpose? Extending forward is problematic. Your service line is on that end of house and multiple roof lines are gonna give more problems.

 

[Ryf]

anything you'd do would not be able to match the garage roofline because of the windows on the house, if you are will to accept that you could do a carport, but only if your willing to move your power wire..

looks like a bad deal, like said above, add to back or build a big storage shed to move whatevers in the garage out of the way.

 

[taumac]

Main power would have to be moved. Only option I see is redoing roof on exsisting garage to a carport sytle roof. The making another garage or carport in front of previous one with same carport sytle roof and running it up to the front of house making the garage double depth. If you just do a carport in front you wouldnt lose windows but garage you would. Pros really deep garage and truck out of weather. Cons expensive probably, losing windows or light in house. If thats not worth all the trouble look at ways to get stuff out of garage to fit truck or extending garage back but unsure of backyard and space available back there.

 

[DIC]

Maybe you could do a bump-out on the back

 

[alpinewhite]

Widen the garage. Is the part where the white car is still yours?

 

[winger99]

Nope. where the fence gets darker is the property line. White car is the neighbors

 

[jimindm]

Add on to the house. Match the roof lines. Have a new electric service put in and jump it to the existing. You would have an upstairs that that you could do what ever you want.

You could also tear that garage down and put your dream garage up in the backyard.

It really depends on how much out of the weather you want. To some that is a carport. To others that is inside a hvac controlled encloser.

You would have to extend that mast on you electrical service, but just a lean to off the side of the house would work.

I would check with your municipality before doing anything. Something open may not require you to have firewalls. Some have codes on natural light getting into rooms of a house. You just do not know, until you ask.

You did not mention cost. An addition to the side of the house, with an attached garage may be it, or maybe its a $499 carport from the box store.

Either way, that ford is built tough enough to sit out in the elements of the weather.

 

[KiltLifter]

The power can seem intimidating, but it's not a huge deal to move. Like the above, my worries would be covering the windows next to your truck and worse, the drainage off the extended roof - it looks like there's already a cricket to split the flow front and rear and that would have to get huge to do the job double deep.

One thing you could do is (gulp) remove the existing garage (or parts of it) and extend your house roof and walls to the left, creating a 2-story addition - garage below and ??? above. The gable window could become a door to access the room above.
You could also add a dormer to match the one on the house, it would look like it was always there.

I'd make it as wide as I could, even if the door is one car wide, there would be space for a shop on the side. If you kill your gate doing so, put a barn door on the back of the garage to get bigger stuff into the back yard.

 

[KiltLifter]

Ha, you beet me to the roofline, I guess I type slow!