I’m sure you’ll be spending more time in the garage than the house might as well make it what you want then regretting later that it isn’t big enough.
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The new Garage
- Thread starter r3dd0g
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I'm tired of working in my tiny 2 car garage so I'm finally building a big (30'x60') shop to work in.
When I bought this house 15 years ago I planned on building a garage here. It's why I bought this house with the big lot (for the Metro Phoenix area). However, because I'm ALWAYS busy working on some other project (AKA the Blazer, the S-10, the Silverado, the Sonoma, the shop truck, the trailer etc. etc. etc.) I never had time to do this myself. We decided about a year ago that we just needed to pay to have it done.
We explored options, we looked at houses that already had a large garage, but they were all huge houses on huge lots that were longer commutes for us and would cost us way more money (in interest alone) than we're spending on this garage. Initially we were going to make a 20x40 detatched garage, but local zoning meant the roof line could only be 15 foot (average of the gable) which wasn't really tall enough and there really wasn't anywhere on the lot where it would work very well. After talking with my GC we got the idea to make it attached, this really opened up the options and after sketching out floorplans and deciding that it will be way cheaper to go big now than to expand later, we ended up with the plans we have now. I really didn't want to get done with it and go "man I wish this was 5' longer or 3' wider". It's going to be awesome. I don't plan on moving any time soon and I'm not really concerned about the resale of the house. This is a long term commitment and I think it's going to look awesome and be the envy of car guys and girls everywhere.
Dude that shop is gonna be awesome!
They should be done with the walls today, trusses get delivered and installed tomorrow!
I"m just hoping I have time to get the electrical, insulation and drywall done before summer! Winter is the best time in AZ.
I'm not installing A/C, it will just be evap cooling. I was planning on just using fiberglass, but I can look into the spray foam. I may do A/C in the future, but for now Evap cooling works for the majority of the year here.
The framing is done! They started sheeting the outside and tomorrow the trusses will be delivered! It almost feels like a building when you stand inside it now.
The view from across the street:
Aerial shots:
The doors seem huge, everything looks awesome, I can't wait to see it with full walls and a roof on it.
The view from across the street:
Aerial shots:
The doors seem huge, everything looks awesome, I can't wait to see it with full walls and a roof on it.
I researched insulation to a bizzare amount.
Spray foam without question, is the best.
Mainly cause it air seals the whole thing. But you might wanna see about humidity control. Thermal barriers are everything and foam gives you the best thermal barrier
Spray foam without question, is the best.
Mainly cause it air seals the whole thing. But you might wanna see about humidity control. Thermal barriers are everything and foam gives you the best thermal barrier
Oh and get ceiling fans
I am going to pay the extra and get 1.5" of spray foam done in my exterior walls and bats on top of that on my house we are building. Builder says it makes a big difference in sealing it up and also in noise even though that doesn't matter cuz I'm in the middle of no where.
This will be coated with synthetic stucco as well which is water and air tight too. I'll have to see the difference in cost between spray in and regular insulation.
I might have missed it but what's your dimensions on the shop? What door size you going to have? Is the RV going to be parked inside the shop?
30x60 (with a corner cut off due to setback limits), 14x14 doors on both ends and the RV will be parked in there other than when I'm fabricating.
Yeah that’s huge for me, my ceiling temps are within 2* of the floor. I leave them on low all the time.
My building is steel and there is a big difference between the half that is insulated and the half that is not for sound control, but my older shop with framed walls and OSB inside and out with fiberglass is better for preventing sound penetration.
For me sealing up the inevitable gaps of steel siding was paramount for controlling temps efficiently, sounds like your stucco will accomplish that as well.
I'll also be dry-walling the inside once I'm done with electrical and plumbing so it will be a sandwich. When it's done outside in should be stucco, foam, OSB, insulation (fiberglass or other) and drywall.
There wasn't as much progress today as I was expecting, but the trusses did get delivered and they have it mostly tied in with the house/patio roof.
Drone shots:
I'm hoping they finish up the sheeting and start putting the trusses up tomorrow, but we'll see.
Drone shots:
I'm hoping they finish up the sheeting and start putting the trusses up tomorrow, but we'll see.
Curious to see how this roof line looks w/ the roof on the 2nd floor.
The existing peak of the roof will tie in with the peak on the garage, but the garage will be slightly taller. I've seen the plans, but it will be nice to see it in 1:1 scale.
