Engine-Ear
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Hi everyone,
I would like to share with you my garage build and follow-up with a couple of questions.
By way of introduction, I bought a 30' x 40' steel building kit from Miracle Truss. Eaves are 18' and peak height is 24'. Spent 6 months last year building it to the point shown.
Anyway the 1200 sf area will be divided into to main areas: half for cars and parts storage, half for working on stuff.
Regarding the cars/parts storage:
One pic shows 3 garage doors leading to this area. I plan to have 4-post storage lifts at each of those bays, as well as a mezzanine above that area. The mezzanine would be self supporting and not dependent on the building's trusses.
What I am trying to do is design a mezzanine and a staircase.
I originally wanted to build the support structure out of steel (I-beams, etc) but a couple of people recommended lumber for better fireproofing (comments?).
As for load calculations vs. material usage, I am not sure what to specify. My goal is to have pallet racking up there with the potential to store LOTS of stuff. ...Not talking engines but certainly sheetmetal, brackets, tires, wheels, seats, glass, etc.
I really need to get moving on this NOW because I have 3 cars to part out sitting in the driveway and a couple of my neighbors are already calling the fuzz to complain.
I would like to share with you my garage build and follow-up with a couple of questions.
By way of introduction, I bought a 30' x 40' steel building kit from Miracle Truss. Eaves are 18' and peak height is 24'. Spent 6 months last year building it to the point shown.
Anyway the 1200 sf area will be divided into to main areas: half for cars and parts storage, half for working on stuff.
Regarding the cars/parts storage:
One pic shows 3 garage doors leading to this area. I plan to have 4-post storage lifts at each of those bays, as well as a mezzanine above that area. The mezzanine would be self supporting and not dependent on the building's trusses.
What I am trying to do is design a mezzanine and a staircase.
I originally wanted to build the support structure out of steel (I-beams, etc) but a couple of people recommended lumber for better fireproofing (comments?).
As for load calculations vs. material usage, I am not sure what to specify. My goal is to have pallet racking up there with the potential to store LOTS of stuff. ...Not talking engines but certainly sheetmetal, brackets, tires, wheels, seats, glass, etc.
I really need to get moving on this NOW because I have 3 cars to part out sitting in the driveway and a couple of my neighbors are already calling the fuzz to complain.
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