New garage - finally!

[944turbo]

When I bought this house in 2005, it had a small 2 car detached garage (18 x 24). The electrical shared a 15A breaker with part of the house, so whenever I ran the shop vac and the table saw I'd pop the breaker.

June of 2011 we had a wind storm which dropped my neighbor's 50' Ash tree onto the garage - total loss. My neighbor felt terrible, but I was ecstatic.

I settled with my insurance company and started making plans for the new garage. The down side is that the total sf of all outbuildings cannot be more than 15% of the area of the lot. I have a garden shed (get the yard tools OUT of the garage!), I had to limit the garage foot print to 625sf, max. I arrived at 607sf. (24 x 26).

I have two extra slots in the house breaker box, so will dedicate two breakers for the garage with a sub panel in the garage. This way, I hope, I can run 220V from the house panel to the garage panel.

The pad was poured last fall and the temps are up in Wisconsin, so I'm hoping to start building within the next month.

I'll add updates to this thread and try to post photo links to photobucket.

 

[944turbo]

Here's a link to my Photobucket album:

http://s1156.photobucket.com/albums/p566/kenoshaterry/

In the pad picture you'll notice three conduits coming up from the concrete. One for the 220V electrical line, one for telephone and one for cable (I hope to run a line from my satellite to the garage to hook up to a flat screen).

 

[keithh2oskier]

That will be a nice space... Looking forward to some more pictures. How did everything work out with the insurance? Did you get a fair amount? Was it your homeowners or his that is paying for it? unfortunatly if my neighbors tree breaks, its taking out the house and not the garage (which is in the back of the property)...

 

[944turbo]

The garage was built in 1920-something. Back then, they built the garage on the ground and had dirt floors. As time went on, they poured concrete inside the walls. So, to build anything (code), I had to rip up the concrete and pour a new slab to build on. My insurance paid, but they wouldn't pay for the slab, plus I was building larger, so awkward moments. I got quotes to replace the existing and they paid according to that.

I'm looking forward to the build. Disappointed that the Toyota takes up so much room.

 

[iancoletx]

Hey man. I grew up in Kenosha and have had a couple of 944s too! Looking forward to seeing this build

 

[944turbo]

Hi Ian. I didn't grow up in Kenosha but obviously have many friends that did. I'll try to keep my thread up to date.