Should There Be A "Super Size" Garage Sub Forum?

[Dan in Pasadena]

I've been around here a long time and I'm noticing a lot more super big "garages" being built or shown off. Personally, I feel like guys that have the space and the means to buy or build a huge garage need their own sub forum.

Why? These garages have so little in common with us ordinary homeowners that have a 1, 2 or 3 car garage. Something that is 50 x 100 ft or even say 36 x 72 have NOTHING in common with my old 18x18 or my new 21x21 garage. The type and quantity or tools that will fit in it or the projects that can be taken on in one are entirely different. I truly admire them, I like getting ideas from them but I'll never have. a mezzanine, a dedicated eating/lounge area, etc.

What say you Garage Journal Intelligentsia?

 

[twistedstang]

I would be happy if everyone just included the size of their shop in the title.

I agree though, I'm way more interested in looking at average sized shops.

 

[Bolson32]

I would be happy if everyone just included the size of their shop in the title.

I agree though, I'm way more interested in looking at average sized shops.

Same. Knowing the size up front would be great

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[Bessy]

Not that I know much (or really anything) about organizing forums/sub forums, but it would be kindof cool to be able to quickly search a sub forum dedicated specifically for each, single double, triple, and behemoth, like on the car forums where they sub divide forums based on first, second or third gen vehicles.

I like reading about projects and garages/shops of all sizes, but I definitely agree that it would be cool to filter by size.



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[sz0k30]

I think too many sub-forums is more trouble than its worth.

 

[jabberwoki]

No one`s enough.

 

[36truck]

I had a 54x90 garage before I moved. Yes it was bigger but the work to build is still the same just longer time frame.
I would agree the size in the title would be nice. But any garage is always fun to look at.
Pictures are always welcome for ideas on any size.

 

[74Ken]

Same. Knowing the size up front would be great

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Fortunately, some of them do.
I ignore anything that has the word "Pole Barn" in it.
I have a 3 car also and don't have any interest in these structures.

I don't have 20' headroom, I have a normal height garage with less than 2 feet above the garage doors.

Also my garage will never look as prestine or polished as some of these ones are. I have "Stuff" lots of stuff. My shelving looks messy, my benches are over crowded and they always will be.

I am more interested in storage solutions and flooring ideas. I live in the north and look for others with similar locations to see how they handle snow and salt dripping off their cars in the winter.

I have lots of tools. I need ideas to be able to find that one tool when I need to find it fast. I freak out when my tool is not where it is supposed to be.

I don't have deep pockets either. I'm really cheap when it comes to finding solutions for storage. I love these 5,000+ garage cabinets but I will NEVER spend the money on something like that.

Separate sub sections would be great in my opinion too.

 

[cbacres]

All shop sizes matter

I’m in the middle lower end of size, it’s a pole barn, that started life as a horse barn. But it’s only 8’ ceilings.

I agree about the size being readily posted.

My thought are keeps as is. It’s easy to skip past ones that don’t draw my interest.

 

[Mpower5266]

I would be happy if everyone just included the size of their shop in the title.

I agree though, I'm way more interested in looking at average sized shops.

I didn't know how big my garage was going to be when I started my thread. I started by converting my basement to a single car, but I have since added on to the house and garage.

 

[shortykorte]

First off, everyone should have the same size garage. Lol.

Garage Gallery is about the garage itself, (in general). General Garage Discussion is about organizing what’s in the garage, etc. The bigger issue is a lot us only use one thread, our garage gallery thread. Duker and Zmotorsports have the right idea, a garage build thread and a project thread. I like the idea on including the Size on the garage build thread. Great way for person getting ready to build or remodel to find like buildings.

 

[larry_g]

You can see my opinion in last years thread on this subject here; https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=421453&highlight=subforum

Short answer is no.

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[larry_g]

Fortunately, some of them do.
I ignore anything that has the word "Pole Barn" in it.

I am more interested in storage solutions and flooring ideas.

So your ignoring all the good flooring and storage solutions that may be just because they are not in the 'correct' structure? I'm a frugal guy too but I can find ideas everywhere I've used ideas from Don Long's posts and Jack's, 12 gauge garage, tiny little garage. Size doesn't matter when your looking for details.

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[zippyslug31]

Splitting the forum out by size feels like an exclusionary move... the "haves" vs "have-nots". Are we trying to recreate the 99% movement here?
If you were to group the "garage folks" into their own sub group, would it then be needed to further categorize them by 1 bay, 2 bay, and 3 bay?

Honestly, I don't get the point. I say leave it alone and use the dashboard tool linked in the Gallery index. You can slice and dice whatever you want to see to your heart's content.

 

[ducksface]

I've been here for 8 years.
I don't remember one time I've mentioned my garage itself.
The wall area doesn't matter.
I can pick up garage ideas from a toilet paper commercial or a rerun of Dobie Gillis.

The wall mount table that folds down from its hiding spot behind a 2ftx3ft picture on the wall of a rented condo one car garage plays a roll in any size garages as do the French cleats running across a 12x80ft wall.


If you all can't look at Don Long's place and decide that's the floor you want in your two car garage....

If Don Long type effort and size guys(sorry Don but the thought put into your garage proves forethought and forethought is what I'm getting at) can't look at a two car garage and see the compressor tucked in the rafters using bungie cord Mounts is a good idea....

If you all can't see the rivets in an airplane skin and directly apply that process to a chair or a drill press stand or the lamp base repair you all couldn't figure how to get a screw into....
Wow.
One of the guys here posted about making a wing to fuselage intricate piece on an all aluminum skinned vintage airplane. He used masking tape to get the lines and curves he needed. I've used that process fifteen times since, the just one not great picture he posted has allowed me to build many things...Not ONCE on an airplane. I haven't a clue what kind of airplane it was. The knowledge I EXTRAPOLATED wasn't about the airplane size, or even airplanes.

I have no gracious way to explain the limitation you all put on yourself, purposefully by using your exclusionary pattern of thinking.

I don't think I've ever purposely gone to a specific section to peruse.
I hit
New posts
And I see them all.
Then I use them all.

In fairness
I skip the
'I'm breaking ground on my new garage'
Stuff.
It's not a garage yet.
Once it is a garage, I don't care what size it is. I'll take a look to see what he knows and I don't. And then I'll know.

 

[shortykorte]

Zippy
Thanks for tip about dashboard index.

Duckface, great points.


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[Metallitubby]

Same. Knowing the size up front would be great

This sounds like something my girlfriend would say.

 

[shoot summ]

To answer the question, NO.

I like looking at them all, I can open a thread and start reading, if I'm not interested all I have to do is hit the back button...

And like @ducksface I've gleaned bits and pieces from many threads, regardless of the garage size.

 

[Lassen Forge]

Ducks is right. You won't believe the ideas I've gotten from garages, whether it's a converted aircraft hangar or supermarket, or a tiny garage in Russia... My shop is a 150 year old wooden floored horse-era smithy that I'm slowly working on, no, it's NOT big, more like a small buggy or wagon repair shop... you can't even drive into it. But it doesn't mean I can't get ideas from the likes of Jay Leno or Tubalcain or, heck, even Zen or Kevin...

Like my favorite lawyer says... Saul Goodman.