Smaller Garage Advice?

[Murphjup]

I am building a CBS, 18' x 38', 11' outside wall height, shop on my lot. Due to available area I cannot make it any larger. I am planning on hopefully putting a lift in it if I can get the 12' interior height needed, by designing the truss's to correspond to that.

But I was wondering what other ideas or thoughts you folks might have for limited width smaller shops? Since I am in Florida, I know it will be hot, so any thoughts on cooling would be appreciated.

This is a very interesting forum. Thank you in advance.

 

[JMURiz]

That's small? Sounds huge to me, should be able to squeeze in 4 small cars. Back to your question, I'd go with scissor trusses to get some extra height for a lift and park 2 deep with work areas on the sides. How many cars/stuff do you need to fit?

 

[brownbagg]

put a roll up door on each end, you can drive thru and the wind will blow thru

 

[t. jones]

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=46747 here's what you need
Thanx Trevor

 

[Stuart in MN]

What's a CBS?

 

[Murphjup]

What's a CBS?

Concrete, Brick and Steel, basically made of Concrete Block...

The Door is only at the 18' wide end. Cannot put two doors, gonna have a storage area at the other end...

 

[Scotto]

That's not a small garage. My 10x20... now that's SMALL

 

[kbs2244]

Look into these guys

http://www.64metals.com/metal_trusses.aspx