pago cruiser
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First poster here. What a great site. Lots of great ideas. But my first post is gonna be a problem...
Designing a 38x28 garage (22x28 shop and 16x28 1-car), which is a portion of an ultimate 62x28. I can only build the 38x28 part due to codes in my area limiting the garage to 70% of the house size.
So the plan is to build the 38x28, then add onto the house next year, then build extend the garage another 24 feet for a 2-car.
THE PROBLEM is that the garage area has bit of a slope. The current 38x28 slopes 2 feet in the 38' length, but I can deal with that easily with a 2' block retaining wall, then add fill to the driveway. BUT the future extension slopes another 5 feet in the 24' direction. So I either need to add lots of fill (it would be about 7' worth once I allow for slope aspect, then add fill for the driveway slope, which would total about 400 yards
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I believe instead I'll step the future garage floor about three to four feet lower than the first build. Which means a designing a retaining wall now, and installing when I do the first section. The exterior design is a southwest style, so the odd(?) stepped roofline would not be too abnormal... It also means about 4 to 5 steps inside the future garage leading up to the current build. Which means if I want 24' clear inside, I need to size the future for at least 28 feet wide
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Anybody see another way around this? I would really like to be able to enter the "first" garage from the future expansion without going outside. Can't really move the garage anywhere else onsite. And can't have more than one "accessory outbuilding" by code, which prevents me from splitting up the garage and the shop sections to different parts of the site. This is really a pisser, as I have almost 5 acres to work with, but codes seem an unreasonable pita...
Designing a 38x28 garage (22x28 shop and 16x28 1-car), which is a portion of an ultimate 62x28. I can only build the 38x28 part due to codes in my area limiting the garage to 70% of the house size.
So the plan is to build the 38x28, then add onto the house next year, then build extend the garage another 24 feet for a 2-car.THE PROBLEM is that the garage area has bit of a slope. The current 38x28 slopes 2 feet in the 38' length, but I can deal with that easily with a 2' block retaining wall, then add fill to the driveway. BUT the future extension slopes another 5 feet in the 24' direction. So I either need to add lots of fill (it would be about 7' worth once I allow for slope aspect, then add fill for the driveway slope, which would total about 400 yards
. I believe instead I'll step the future garage floor about three to four feet lower than the first build. Which means a designing a retaining wall now, and installing when I do the first section. The exterior design is a southwest style, so the odd(?) stepped roofline would not be too abnormal... It also means about 4 to 5 steps inside the future garage leading up to the current build. Which means if I want 24' clear inside, I need to size the future for at least 28 feet wide
.Anybody see another way around this? I would really like to be able to enter the "first" garage from the future expansion without going outside. Can't really move the garage anywhere else onsite. And can't have more than one "accessory outbuilding" by code, which prevents me from splitting up the garage and the shop sections to different parts of the site. This is really a pisser, as I have almost 5 acres to work with, but codes seem an unreasonable pita...
