Hello!
I have a garage thats 180 m² (I think around 2000 ft²?), and I want to install a two post lift in it. The problem is, the ceiling height is a little too low to work under a car comfortably.
The height is 3.2m (126") and I would need around 3.7 m (145").
Those are the minimum measurements for the two post lift Im considering (Bendpak), but I want to aim between 12'-14'.
The carpenter I talked to wanted ~$5000 to modify the trusses... A bit pricey for me.
I will talk to another carpenter, but I thought I would ask here as well, to see if anyone had any ideas on what I should do.
I dont know how the first carpenter wants to modify the trusses.
I will probably have to modify two trusses, and create a "box" over the lift to get the car up into.
Right, some pictures will help me explain.
This is how my garage looks. Its divided in two sections, one big room to the right, and one small room to the left. Theres a wall where the roof is bent, so I want the lift on the left side of the big room, so I can drive a car straight in through the big door and on to the lift:
This is how my trusses look:
This is a picture from the attic entrance, its on the back of the garage, so the wall furthest back is the same wall from the first picture with the garage doors:
This is the side that I want to modify. The trusses are resting on the inner wall in the garage (formely the outer wall, the garage have been built upon to get the smaller room):
I want the lift on the LEFT side here, since I have the garage door on that side, and I want the right side free for other cars:
The planks represent the trusses, the one near the door I can ignore, then the next truss (plank) I need to modify, and also probably the next one after it as well:
Here you can see roughly where I want the lift. The wall with the door on the other pictures have been removed:
This is something I had in mind, but do I need a pillar for this design? I want to keep the open space in the garage so a pillar is not an option.
Its not exactly the right design of my trusses (I dont have the middle pillar) but you get the idea:
Other options are a raised tie:
or scissors:
But, can I modify the existing trusses to these designs, or do I need to replace the whole truss? The roof is tin, so thats pretty easy to remove, but I dont know how easy it is to lift the old trusses.
Yet another option is to make a hole in the wall, install a glulam beam (is that the right word?) along the whole length of the garage, and hope that the other trusses can support the roof when distributing the load with two less trusses. I think there are 6 trusses, and removing 2 would mean 33% less support. Not really thrilled about those numbers....
Any suggestions or ideas? Or perhaps someone have done something like this already and can show me some pictures of what they did?
Thanks!
I have a garage thats 180 m² (I think around 2000 ft²?), and I want to install a two post lift in it. The problem is, the ceiling height is a little too low to work under a car comfortably.
The height is 3.2m (126") and I would need around 3.7 m (145").
Those are the minimum measurements for the two post lift Im considering (Bendpak), but I want to aim between 12'-14'.
The carpenter I talked to wanted ~$5000 to modify the trusses... A bit pricey for me.
I will talk to another carpenter, but I thought I would ask here as well, to see if anyone had any ideas on what I should do.
I dont know how the first carpenter wants to modify the trusses.
I will probably have to modify two trusses, and create a "box" over the lift to get the car up into.
Right, some pictures will help me explain.
This is how my garage looks. Its divided in two sections, one big room to the right, and one small room to the left. Theres a wall where the roof is bent, so I want the lift on the left side of the big room, so I can drive a car straight in through the big door and on to the lift:
This is how my trusses look:
This is a picture from the attic entrance, its on the back of the garage, so the wall furthest back is the same wall from the first picture with the garage doors:
This is the side that I want to modify. The trusses are resting on the inner wall in the garage (formely the outer wall, the garage have been built upon to get the smaller room):
I want the lift on the LEFT side here, since I have the garage door on that side, and I want the right side free for other cars:
The planks represent the trusses, the one near the door I can ignore, then the next truss (plank) I need to modify, and also probably the next one after it as well:
Here you can see roughly where I want the lift. The wall with the door on the other pictures have been removed:
This is something I had in mind, but do I need a pillar for this design? I want to keep the open space in the garage so a pillar is not an option.
Its not exactly the right design of my trusses (I dont have the middle pillar) but you get the idea:
Other options are a raised tie:
or scissors:
But, can I modify the existing trusses to these designs, or do I need to replace the whole truss? The roof is tin, so thats pretty easy to remove, but I dont know how easy it is to lift the old trusses.
Yet another option is to make a hole in the wall, install a glulam beam (is that the right word?) along the whole length of the garage, and hope that the other trusses can support the roof when distributing the load with two less trusses. I think there are 6 trusses, and removing 2 would mean 33% less support. Not really thrilled about those numbers....
Any suggestions or ideas? Or perhaps someone have done something like this already and can show me some pictures of what they did?
Thanks!
