New attached 40x60 colonial garage

[davesly]

So the city won't let me put an outbuilding on my Acreage, which is located on the edge of town, so I've got to attach a 40x60 to my brick colonial house. I am making the attachment to the East side of my current attached garage.

Given that the 40x60 is nearly as big as my house, I designed it to look very similar (2 story with dormers). This will give me a 12' ceiling height for both of my 2-post Rotary lifts, and also a lower ceiling area (9') for my display area. Then I'll have an upstairs workshop for small stuff (sandblasting, head/carb rebuilds, electrical work, small parts cleaning/painting, etc). I even spec'd attic trusses above the 9' ceiling for storage.

I attached some pics that I made in sketch-up of the house with the garage addition.

We just poured the floor today. I included pics of the lay-down of the PEX radiant heat tubes in the HVAC section of this site. Next step - Framing.

 

[Kevin54]

That's going to be sweet when it's done. Looking forward to the upcoming pics!!

Did you do a partial roof at one time? It looks like the main house doesn't match the rest of the house? I can't complain though, at one time the aerial shot of our house showed about three or four different colors.

 

[davesly]

Actually, this is a pic from our assessor website and it is a few years old. I replaced the roof on the entire house last summer (this way it will match the roof for my new garage expansion this summer). Overall it will be a very large amount of roof.

An interesting story on the house: My wife and I were planning to build on a lot we owned, and this house had been on the market for around $750K for several years. Well it eventually fell into foreclosure, and we were able to pick it up from the bank for only $290K early last Spring. Of course, it needed a new roof, appliances and a lot of TLC (i.e. lots of dead animals in the pool), but it cleaned up well. Since we made such a good buy on the house, I was able to afford my new Garag-Mahal and still be under what we were expecting to pay for just the house to be built on our old lot.

 

[Nuts]

will look forward to the build

Nuts

 

[davesly]

The walls are going up (Finally!)

Construction is 2x6's on 1 foot centers. This was necessary due to the large attic space. The trusses should go up tomorrow!

 

[RbrtAWhyt]

That is going to be so awesome! Looking forward to the rest of the build...

 

[51rider]

Wow!
What a lovely home!
I think the city have done you a favour-your design blends seamlessly into the house & makes it look like it has always been there. That sir is the mark of a well thought out plan & I take my hat off to you. great design & the extension will really suit-you have designed it very well.
I am very impressed with the sketch-up renderings-how long did it take? I'm trying to use it for my garage plans & after about 12 hours of playing, mine is a pile of poo compared to yours

Are you involved in design/construction at all? With the quality of the sketch-up pics & the blending in of the new addition, I'm thinking you must be!

Looking forward to the updates.

Subscribed!

 

[davesly]

Thanks a lot for the comments. On one hand, I do like the idea of the attached garage, however the cost is over twice as much as a metal building located on the far corner of the field. The entire project will come in at around $120K.

I am not in the construction business, but I did ask an architect friend for some ideas (it cost me a $100 gift certificate to a local restaurant). Originally, I had a 40x60 rectangle that had 12' high sidewalls. I also had a lower brick wainscoting with white siding up the rest of the way.

His recommendation was to breakup the roofline by lowering 1/3 of the building to 9' and adding the dormers to mirror the original house (also makes the upstairs attic area more useful as a shop). He also recommended matching the mullin windows of the original house, and minimizing the siding (going with brick everywhere possible). The screen porch on the back was my idea. In the end, he still thought I was crazy to build such a big garage, however I think all of us on this board have heard that before. Luckily all of my neighbors have been very positive about it.

I spent a lot of time with learning Sketchup to do the layout, however, it was generally fairly easy. The trick is to save a lot, because sometimes you get a wall out of plane and I never could fix it. In those cases, I just went back to my last saved version and worked from there.

 

[davesly]

FINALLY! the trusses are up. Next step is the sheeting. You can clearly see the size of the attic within the trusses. The lower 9' section will be storage only, and will be accessed via a pull down ladder from the ceiling. The larger 12' attic section will be a workshop that will have 3 dormers for light and will have a staircase entry.

 

[bazzateer]

Space and budget I can only dream about - I hate you!

 

[Justanoldguy]

Love the design and final look to the place.
Well though out blending to the house..

 

[davesly]

The Roof is now done. Next step is tyvek and windows. Then the brick.

I originally had a screen porch with a standard roof, that was next to the pool. I liked the view from the loft so much that I replaced the window with a sliding glass door and converted the screen porch roof into a 2nd story deck.

More progress soon... hopefully.

 

[ct71rr]

Wow!! Very nice.

 

[PERFORMANCE-RED]

I love brick houses! This is going to look great when it is finished.

 

[IMXCITD]

Killer deal on the house and cool garage build!

 

[davesly]

The windows and Tyvek only took a day. I'm guessing that the brick work will take a few weeks.

 

[GHOSTDANCER]

Great looking addition

 

[davesly]

We finally completed the brick (13,500 of them) and are now on to the trim and siding. I'll also be installing a screened-in porch on the poolside of the building. It will have a deck on top for the attic room walkout.

I'm about 1/3 done with the internal wiring (I'll take interior pics this weekend).

 

[Call me the Breeze]

Very Nice!

 

[flyng_fool]

Very,very nice. I have to ask though, what's up with the cop cars in the garage in your first post?

 

[NUTTSGT]

wow Thats bad ***.

 

[930dreamer]

How come the pool isn't open? Looks great.

 

[bighammer]

It appears you purchased the vacant lot to the right of your house and this addition actually crosses the fence over into that land. What's your plans for the rest of the lot?

 

[davesly]

The cop cars were the best looking chevy surburbans available in the Google Sketchup graphics warehouse. I used Sketchup to create these drawings and check out the spacing for the placement of the lifts. I have a suburban and want to make sure that I can fit it on the lifts.

 

[davesly]

Actually, the lot was included with the house purchase. The prior owners would keep horses in that lot (now I keep horse-power in the lot).

I am in some local car clubs, so I thought we could hold some of our events in the grass area, and use the garage and lifts for judging, tech sessions and a place to hang out (if it rains).

 

[Bib Overalls]

I am in some local car clubs, so I thought we could hold some of our events in the grass area, and use the garage and lifts for judging, tech sessions and a place to hang out (if it rains).

I'm available to help with the judging. I work for food and frolic.

 

[Motown 454]

Awesome looking building. I think the brick was the right choice. It looks great.

 

[mojo_13]

Looks great, I look forward to some interior pictures of it. I saw in another post about how you are heating and cooling it. Sounds like it should hold up nicely to the cold Iowa winters.

 

[Munich77]

That looks fantastic. Once it is all completed on the inside you have a true Garage mahal.

 

[davesly]

Interior pics

I've included pics of inside (finally). I am really happy with the 5 foot spacing of the can-lights in the display area (really make the cars look nice). You can also see some of my vintage shop equipment. (from left to right - Bear 4-wheel alignment machine, Matco toolbox, Sun Oscilloscope, Bear Engine Analyzer and Sun Distributor machine). You might also spot a Snap-On A/C machine in the insulation picture. The workbenches are from Sam's club and I really like them (very well built and very cheap). I still have lots to do, however my wife's car is needing some attention first.

 

[davesly]

The lifts are now in

I purchased some old Rotary Asymmetric lifts from a GM dealer in Chicago that was going out of business. They were $1,500 each, but were scratched and rusty. I sanded them down, repainted them and purchased some new stickers. They seem to work great, and they look as good as new.

I mounted the one on the left (without the Vette) so that I could drive straight in for alignments, oil changes, and short term maintenance. I mounted the front of the posts 12' from the back wall.

The one of the right, is backwards (you back into it). This is so I can pull engines into the open space of the garage. This is a more long-term projects lift. The back of the posts are 15' from the wall, to make room for the back of the car, and to clear the stairway.

The two posts are mounted 4' from each other.

 

[davesly]

Outside of garage with all siding done

I finally finished the siding before it snowed. The outside is now completely done (except for the deck and landscaping).

 

[davesly]

Insulation is finally done - now on to drywall.

Here are pics with the completed insulation. I am now ready to start on the drywall. These pics were taken at a recent NCRS Corvette club meeting.

 

[davesly]

Working on the Kitchenette

I just started on the kitchenette this weekend, as I try to finish up all of the drywall installation. These are pics of the progress so far. I'll be installing white particle-board cabinets with a gray counter top (Lowes).

 

[ejm1961Tbird]

Congrats on a great plan and beautiful execution!

Could you please show me detailed pics of the stair and truss framing as the stairs pass through the attic trusses to the second floor, if you have them? Thanks.

 

[rmckee]

Wow- what an original and well thought out garage! I think you need a little more room for the parking of your collection... seems kind of tight over in that corner.

 

[davesly]

If you look at the pics in Post #31, you can see the stairs fairly well. I just built a platform as high as I could (head clearance below the joists), and then attached the stair frames to the platform. The upper stair frames are nailed to a board between the rafters. The rafters are spaced about 3 feet apart in the area of the stairs and dormers. In order to do this structurally, I have sandwiched 3 rafters together on each side and then cross braced between them. One side of the stairs is also next to the dormer, so I have 6 sandwiched rafters together (seems like a bit of overkill to me, but the structural engineer required it).

As such, the building structure was designed around the stairs (not something you could easily add later).

I'll have some new pics of the stairs soon, as I am building a storage area underneath them.

Dave

 

[z385488]

Sweet After installing the lifts how much room do you have for drywalling the ceiling? My shop has 12' ceilings also and I was wondering if I would be able to install a similar lift after the ceiling is finished.

 

[JimVonBaden]

You have a great space. I am quite jealous!

Jim

 

[ejm1961Tbird]

Thanks for the information about the truss\stair framing. Six trusses to frame the top of the stairs does seem excessive, but I would do it too if it was required for the building design.