fastfalcon94
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Hi my name is Charlie. I'm currently building a 64x40 garage for my car/woodworking hobbies. I've built a few canoes and a kayak, poker tables etc... For cars I like the 90's era. I have a bunch of my projects documented on my website 802projects.com
Anyways they just started on the foundation and I'm trying to figure out trusses. Initially I had decided on attic storage. I was just sent the truss blueprints. I can have a 20' wide x 64' long x 8' tall space above the garage. The floor though is 40 PSF. This would be 24" OC, 31 trusses plus 2 ends at $10,900 delivered.
I want to store tires, hoods, car parts up there. Maybe 2 spare differentials, and 2 spare transmissions (150 pounds each). 40 PSF doesn't seem like a very high rating. They said for $12,300 they can engineer them to hold 60PSF. And if I did them 16" OC they would be good for 100 PSF but that would cost $17,500. Any ideas on what would be enough? Has anyone ever doubled up trusses on just one side of the building? Say for a 10'-20' area do them 16" OC and the rest 24" OC? That would give me an area in storage to hold heavier items. Any downsides to that?
Pic of the operation:
Pics of the kayak I made in my front garage (which isn't big enough):
Anyways they just started on the foundation and I'm trying to figure out trusses. Initially I had decided on attic storage. I was just sent the truss blueprints. I can have a 20' wide x 64' long x 8' tall space above the garage. The floor though is 40 PSF. This would be 24" OC, 31 trusses plus 2 ends at $10,900 delivered.
I want to store tires, hoods, car parts up there. Maybe 2 spare differentials, and 2 spare transmissions (150 pounds each). 40 PSF doesn't seem like a very high rating. They said for $12,300 they can engineer them to hold 60PSF. And if I did them 16" OC they would be good for 100 PSF but that would cost $17,500. Any ideas on what would be enough? Has anyone ever doubled up trusses on just one side of the building? Say for a 10'-20' area do them 16" OC and the rest 24" OC? That would give me an area in storage to hold heavier items. Any downsides to that?
Pic of the operation:
Pics of the kayak I made in my front garage (which isn't big enough):