Garage Layout and upgrade recommendations

[craigibc]

Hoping to get some advice on my current garage. It is ugly but it was here when I bought the house.

The current garage is 19'x42' the ceiling caps out at around 7 1/2ft so it is not a great layout. I am going to keep the existing end of the garage and make it standard parking for cars 2 cars and the rest of the building will be for storing 4 wheelers, lawn tractor and classic cars.


I want to add a 18x24ft addition on the end.

Questions:

1. I plan on covering the metal walls with 1"x10" lumber to clean up the look outside.

2. I want to put a new metal roof on the garage. Can I add 2x4 to the existing metal and attach the metal roof to the roof to the existing building.

3. Any advice on making the addition look good. I am going to for 12ft walls on the new addition and also a 10ft door.

Your advice will be appreciated!

Craig

 

[ZRX61]

If it was mine, I'd L the new 18x24ft part off to the side.

 

[Riley]

Yep, that's what I'd be thinking. Break up the length and add some interest to it. You could even add it in the middle and put a slab behind it and another door on the side of the existing building for more options for maneuvering stuff in and out. Also, since it's only 19 ft wide you might consider going to a single 16 ft wide door in front vice the two that appear to be on there now. You could reuse the existing doors, one on the side, one on the back to save a few bucks. You'd have a very usable space and not have to move the stuff in front to get to the stuff in back.

Probably need to talk to a roofing guy or two. I've not seen metal being layered. Shingle's can go two layers without much problem, I've seen three before.

If the roof has to come down to the rafters you might be able to adjust them to get some additional height in the current structure before the new metal goes on. Probably need a truss design company to weigh in on that, possibly an engineer too.

Looks like it's going to be an interesting project, start a thread or continue this one once you get it rolling.