Blueprints for new garage

Man that looks great, so much green...the house plans look amazing as well!



A few years ago I was single and bought a house, it was a 2 bedroom with a 3 car garage, I told the realtor "I'll take it!"



And he said, "Do you want to see the inside?"



Needless to say I bought it anyway.
 
awesome, you sound set. We had a 2 car garage and then built an Additional garage in our backyard w/ a giant wood workshop. We are kicking ourselves in the *** for not making it bigger to take 4 cars.
 
Great looking home your starting to build. By any chance are you around the Wilmington area? Keep the pics coming , its kool to follow along . Thanks for the garage ideas .





Good luck



Jerry
 
Rollaman,



Yes, I'm about 1 hour north of Wilmington, NC. Hurricaine country, literally!



UPDATE: June 11, 2004



The lot is finally cleared and rough graded:

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The concrete "footers" were poured yesterday:

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Here's where the 4-car garage section will be. Funny, it doesn't look like a big area, but it should be about 46' long and 23' wide here:



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Next step? Framing, I assume. :nixweiss
 
Dean the next step will be the concrete slab for the garage and rest of the house. This is a vital step in the garage , the house they will treat with a decent level of concern becasue it's living space. The garage however they will regard as just a garage , but don't let them. You need to express to them that your garage floors need to be perfect , the grades have to be dead on and the final surface needs to be floated out by hand and not a machine. If not they will just run a large trowel machine over the surface and there will be large trowel marks through out and the grades won't be right meaning that you'll have high and low spots and that can mean anything from water sitting to the inabilty to use a floor jack in certain area's. Hope my rambling helps you with your new garage , I mean house. ;-) If you needs any more of my rambling just let me know.
 
detailbarn,



Any and all advice is welcome!



Actually only the garages will be on a concrete slab. The rest of the home is on a crawl space-type foundation.



Of course, the concrete in the 2 garages is important. I've already specified 3000+ psi strength with a minimum thickness of 6 inches in the rear half of the 4 car garage. This is in preparation for 4-post car lifts for future expansion.



As for the concrete finish, I've decided to avoid epoxy finishes due to durability issues. The concrete subcontractor will be creating a commercial grade finish with "Stain-crete", as shown here:
 
Dean,

Regarding the use of a trowel machine. A trowel machine is the only way to get it superflat and finished with any degree of consistency. Finishing a large garage floor by hand is just wrongheaded. I was in that business for 20 years and did nothing but warehouses, laboratories, research labs, manufaturing plants and other commercial/industrial concete floors that were held to extremely strict tolerances. The only thing we ever finished by hand generally was the edges and around imbedded items and columns. It sounds as though your contractor knows what he is doing, just make sure he puts a finish on the surface that the is in accordance with the stain manufacturers' recommendations. A reasonable tolerance would be 1/8" measured in any direction with an 8' straitedge. Hope that helps.



Regards,
 
maybe it was the operator of the trowel machine on my garage which is only 24'x24' but the use of the trowel machine left huge trowel marks though out the floor and left a very uneven surface. it actually has a crown in the center and low spots around the edge that hold water.
 
Looks very promising!! I just purchased the same software you have the other day. I'm working off of a floorplan from Donald Gardner architects design with a few modifications and a 2 to 3 car garage conversion. Seven would be nice but four spaces would be empty.:D Best of luck to you on your project. :up :up
 
Be sure to wire the hell out of it. You never seem to have enough electical outlets (110 and 220). And put the house's central vac unit in an area where you won't have to listen to it while you're working in the garage.
 
Mini-update:



The foundation outlining the garages is finished. The concrete subcontractor will be pouring the slab soon. The minimal thickness for the 4 car garage will be 5" (3000 psi) in order to make it possible to have the car lifts.



Dean



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Here are some more pictures from the home design software I'm using. I've added landscaping and a driveway design. Any ideas for improvement?



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Dean,



You're an hour north of Wilmington NC? That would be in the Camp Lejeune area then. I spent 8 years at Camp Lejeune. Beautiful country. And I spent many summer weekends in Wilmington (Wrightsville Beach) when I was single.

You're right about hurricane country. My last year there ('96), Bertha and Fran came through. Being Marines in base-housing, we had hurricane parties.

Your two garages with attached house look good. But it seems there may be a lot of valuable floor space taken up by the house part :)

Keep us updated with pics. One of these days I want to build a garage (unfortunately, the wife will make me waste valuable floor space on a house part, too).



Dave
 
Dean~ 2 drains in each garage>? Also glad to see the plastic going in under the concrete, when it is time to paint your floor you will be verry happy you did this :)
 
Thanks, fellas.



Redcar, those are not floor drains. I wish that they were! Those 3 areas you see are the piers for the garage posts. The concrete will be pretty thick in those areas.



Dean
 
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