Addition "help"

[raggmann]

Hey all,
I built my 24'x24' garage back in 2011. It has 10' ceilings and a 9'x16' overhead door
I put a 10' lean-to on each side of the garage that keeps the weather off the vehicles.
As usual I have too much "stuff" and can't park our 2 Jeeps inside the garage.
I'm going to purge a bunch this spring but have decided to enclose one of the lean-to's to use as motorcycle parking/work bay keeping the lean-to on the other side of the shop. I will blow the one wall out into the main shop so I'd have and opening of roughly 12' wide x 8' tall.
I'm debating on 10'x16' or going full depth at 24'
I have a bike lift but when it's not in use I can store it under my Jeep to park our 2 baggers in that service bay.

Need input if a 10'x16' space would be adequate with a 16" deep work bench along the front of the bay. That's give me roughly 3' on each side of a bike on the lift as well as 3' between the front of a bike to the bench. The main shop will house the "dirty" bench with the bench top drill press, bench grinder, etc.
Any thoughts or links?

TIA

 

[couch67]

I'd go the full 24' especially if there's already a roof on it. I've never heard anyone regret going bigger..

 

[NUTTSGT]

Lay it out with chalk or tape on the floor.

 

[nadogail]

Can you put together some sort of a model to prove your concept? Once when my wife and I moved from one house to another, I decided to scale the living room and make cardboard cutouts that represented our furniture.

She then could play with different ideas for the furniture arrangements by moving the cutouts on the drawing.

That was, IMHO, much easier for me than continuing to shuffle furniture around the room. It was no a perfect solution, but I firmly belive it saved me a lot of time and effort.

 

[CombatNinja]

I have a solution that will cost you $0: get rid of all the stuff you don't need. A 24' x 24' garage is plenty big enough for a couple of Jeeps and a couple of motorcycles if you lay it out correctly, get everything off the floor and use the vertical space. You might have to get creative here and there but that is half the fun. If you allowed a garage of that size to fill up with unnecessary/unwanted junk, the same thing will happen to the new, larger space. It might take a couple of years but the relentless march of material accumulation will take over again. Get rid of all the junk and then decide if you really need to build a bigger shop. I've watched guys continuously add to their house and shops to the tune of hundreds of thousands of dollars just to house $100 worth of junk.

 

[raggmann]

CombatNinja, the biggest issue is I use the shop as a general mechanical shop-do all my own repairs from oil changes to engine swaps, it's a woodworking space, motorcycle repair, and metal fabrication so..........

Had a contractor show up Saturday and he said with the layout to go 16' x 10'.
I currently have 3 baggers and a Jeep in the shop and my thoughts of a 16' x 10' should work out. Worse case I close in the other lean-to .

Thanks for the feed back