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Old 11-30-2008, 03:52 AM   #1
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Pics of your garage

I think there already is one of these if there is can someone just post the link....but im building a garage....thinkin of a 20x20 and just wondering what size garage people have and how they look....im just looking for normal 2 car space...no massive shop....DONT HAVE THE ROOM....but any help or pics is appreciated. thanks
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Old 11-30-2008, 07:04 AM   #2
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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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Old 11-30-2008, 07:56 AM   #3
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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.
VERY sound advise and size recomendation for building a small garage!
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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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Old 11-30-2008, 09:21 AM   #5
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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.
Tim is right. I have a 24x24 shop. For normal sized cars and short wheelbase trucks it's ok but put a long wheelbase truck in there and it is tight in mine.
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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Old 11-30-2008, 09:38 AM   #6
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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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Old 11-30-2008, 09:43 AM   #7
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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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Old 11-30-2008, 10:09 AM   #8
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The above advice is good,you'll never have enough room if you are a real car guy.That said when you plan,make sure you put some effort into creative storage.Build a loft for spare parts,a lean to for the air compressor, and heat/AC unit.Go as tall as possible so you can install alift down the road.Make sure you size for shelving or cabinets along the walls and a workbench on a wall or end.
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Another thing to consider is a carport built on front,so you can work under cover.
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Old 11-30-2008, 10:33 AM   #9
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If you made it 24' x 30' wide you could pull two of anything in and have a 1/2 decent work space on the side for 24'.How much space can you fill?
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Old 11-30-2008, 10:56 AM   #10
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Mine is 24 X 30. It was huge when I first built it years ago. Now, I can get one car in to work on (build). The rest is tools and shop equipment. I can squeeze another in but then I cannot walk in here. I am now considering adding 24' in front and connected to this one, with the garage doors left on because mine is heated. It would be nice to have a garage for the family car and lawn stuff, etc, or to just pull into to wax or do daily maintenance or repairs. If you cannot go bigger, go up. A 2nd floor would make a nice storage and shop space for a lot of work.
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My recently built garage turned out to be about 22ftx25ft interior with a 16ft wide over head door.

Is it big enough? No way but it works.
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Mine is 24x30 and like others have mentioned, no matter what you build it is never enough. I have an older 12x16 building I use to hold parts and some of the lawn working tools, so that helps.

If I had my choice I would have done 30x30. The 24 depth is just too tight for some of today's longer vehicles.
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I built an 30x30 at my old house which we rent now and have a 24x27 at our house we bought a few years ago. If you can build it 30x30, 24 foot is tight when you start working on trucks.
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me personally would do something like a 40x40 if i owned own home and space but im sure that would get small eventually
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Mine is 30x30 still too small build it like 60x100 should be about right . Bob
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Mines 24 x 27 and i make due with it . I also have only one fullsize . Thae otheris either the smaller Luv or the Camaro . It would be tight with 2 fullsize trucks . This is a crappy picture , but you get the idea .
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24x28 with a room for my son upstairs. It's fine right now but the Tahoe is parked outside.




The tahoe is back in as far as it needs to be. I have room to work behind it and I can pull a golf cart in to work on it. I wished I had it built 30 deep.

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This is what I was told when I built mine "Build till it hurts and then add 10% more". There is truth to that when it comes to a garage.

40 X 40 shop with 12 ' ceilings and a lift.
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One factor not mentioned is what side of the garage are you going to enter it from ? If its from the Gable end ,,then you can make a much larger entry becasue of the roof support . A 24 foot entry on the rafter support side is about all you can span unless a lot of extra support (like a metal beam ) or center post at th entry .

If I were to build another garage and wanted to keep the cost down I would build one with the entry on the Gable end . 28 wide X 32 deep " this will will let you have 2 cars along side of each other and still room to open the doors with room to get around them .. the work bench would be at the rear of the garage and would be the full 28' wide,shelves ,drawers and some open space for compressor ect ect.

Sure, bigger is always better ,but smaller costs less and this size will let do both ,cost less and still be roomy enought to keep you from saying you wish you had at least built it it 2 foot wider.. papa
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Mine is 30x40, and it is waaaay too small. Was great for about the first year,. I am planning on adding another 16x40 on the north side, basically another bay, but I will move all the stuff like mill, blast cabinet, shelves, welding tables and machines, and all that stuff over there. Then the existing shop space will be for vehicles and work area.

Oh, and I wish I would have went about 2'-4' taller so I could have a lift.
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This is what I was told when I built mine "Build till it hurts and then add 10% more". There is truth to that when it comes to a garage.

40 X 40 shop with 12 ' ceilings and a lift.
That's an unusuall looking setup. I mean the tin is on the inside, no framework showing. Is it insulated and double metal sided? I like it.
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This is what I was told when I built mine "Build till it hurts and then add 10% more". There is truth to that when it comes to a garage.

40 X 40 shop with 12 ' ceilings and a lift.
Now that is HOW its done.
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Mine's 28x28. Too dirty to post a pic. 2 story. Former owner built to back in his mac truck. Even though I have a lift and a 28x8 loft, I'd say go for more room if you can. How else are you going to have room for parts trucks?
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mines 60x60 and still is full of junk.
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A good friend built his 30x60, then had to add a 20x30 shed onto the back of it. Both are full. His car projects are in there, but no room to work on them on account of his "stuff". But, he also has a central heating unit, a paint booth, toilet and deep sink, plus every wall is insulated and covered with pegboard.....and covered with stuff that can hang. When I said it was full, I wasn't kidding.

My garage is 28-ft deep on one side, 24-ft deep on the other. But, it's not as wide as it should have been built, with two 8-ft doors, for aesthetics.....not function. GO BIG!!!
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