Y2KFirehawk
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TL;DR: Building a 26'x28' detached two-car scissor truss lift-friendly garage in addition to three-car attached garage. America!
Long-time reader and car enthusiast, like most. Our residence today has a three-car attached garage, which does well for storing cars but lacks he space for projects taking more than a day without the kids (more likely wife, but shh) tripping over tools, etc. Definitely first world problems at it's finest...
In short, I want to buy at least one more "fun" car and my wife insisted it must have a home. I confirmed she was instructing me to build a garage and never asked again.
Who is doing the work you may ask? In my Father's younger years he was a carpenter. Overall we plan to do as much work ourselves as we can. It will be a three generation build with my youngest, currently nine, helping too. 
With the way our lot is shaped and wanting to keep easy access to the back yard from the driveway, I opted to do a detached two-car garage. Today, our 10x14 shed sits where the garage will ultimately be.
As it is today...
Township only requires a grading plan because the structure is 1) under 1k sq. ft. and 2) does not and will not have living space so I worked with a neighbor who is an engineer and came up with...
Another neighbor is an architect, so I worked with them and came up with the elevations...
Did some preliminary drawings in Visio of layout, looking to do a Bendpak XPR-10AS.
Garage will not have plumbing (wasn't worth the trouble to me) but will have a 90A sub-panel, natural gas (for heat eventually) and I'll be extending the driveway another car width, as shown in the plot plan above.
I welcome any questions, comments or suggestions and thank you in advance for all your help!
And so it begins...
Long-time reader and car enthusiast, like most. Our residence today has a three-car attached garage, which does well for storing cars but lacks he space for projects taking more than a day without the kids (more likely wife, but shh) tripping over tools, etc. Definitely first world problems at it's finest...
In short, I want to buy at least one more "fun" car and my wife insisted it must have a home. I confirmed she was instructing me to build a garage and never asked again.
Who is doing the work you may ask? In my Father's younger years he was a carpenter. Overall we plan to do as much work ourselves as we can. It will be a three generation build with my youngest, currently nine, helping too. With the way our lot is shaped and wanting to keep easy access to the back yard from the driveway, I opted to do a detached two-car garage. Today, our 10x14 shed sits where the garage will ultimately be.
As it is today...
Township only requires a grading plan because the structure is 1) under 1k sq. ft. and 2) does not and will not have living space so I worked with a neighbor who is an engineer and came up with...
Another neighbor is an architect, so I worked with them and came up with the elevations...
Did some preliminary drawings in Visio of layout, looking to do a Bendpak XPR-10AS.
Garage will not have plumbing (wasn't worth the trouble to me) but will have a 90A sub-panel, natural gas (for heat eventually) and I'll be extending the driveway another car width, as shown in the plot plan above.
I welcome any questions, comments or suggestions and thank you in advance for all your help!
And so it begins...
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