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11-30-2008, 07:04 AM
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Re: Pics of your garage
24' x 24' is a good minimum 2 car garage dimension for parking.It leaves a enough room to have a workbench along the back wall.Figure a two lane road is a minimum 20' to have a centerline and you`ll want room to walk around the vehicles and open the doors.I`d want 24' x 30' minimum.Don`t forget all the shelves and junk you`ll have along the walls.
 Seriously,you`l have the floor jack,jack stands,etc,that will need a place in there.
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11-30-2008, 07:56 AM
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11-30-2008, 08:30 AM
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Re: Pics of your garage
It's kinda like buying a toolbox. Figure the size ya want and then get the next larger one. Too much, is not enough!
It do get cramped real quick.
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11-30-2008, 09:21 AM
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Consider the length of the longest vehicle you will be putting in there and add 4 or 5 feet to that to have room to pump the floor jack and swing the truck doors open and such. I do have 24" deep shelves at the back wall of mine and down one side. I could stand to have a 30x30 and feel somewhat comfortable. Go for all the room you can afford. The more room you have the more stuff you will put in there. It's inevitable.. 
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11-30-2008, 09:38 AM
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Re: Pics of your garage
Mine is a 24x24. It was fine when I just parked a vehicle on one side and had the other as a little workshop, but it filled up really fast when I started taking my longbed apart. I no longer park a car in there and even with the bed kept outside it is getting hard to move around.
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11-30-2008, 09:43 AM
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Re: Pics of your garage
I too am looking to build a shop. I mocked up a 24'x36' shop yesterday using graph paper. I drew out all the tools I could ever want to size and placed them into the mock shop. I tell you it will work but will propably be a little cramped. So now I am thinking just to play it safe I will build a 30'x40' shop. Like OhioDan said, figure out what size you need then go up to the next one. I think that if you build a 20x20 shop you will have enough room to store your tools and the project vehicle, but not enough space to work on it comfortably. That is about the space of my garage and before my wife took it over I would have to pull my 70 chevy out to work on it and would put it back into the garage to simply store it. I know you said you have limited room to build, but I would build as big as I could.
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