[Chopper Dropper]

Originally Posted by Patrick3000

Looked at one last summer two blocks around the corner. Nice five car garage. The kitchen lady said we don’t need a $5.6 million dollar house. After the tour she said, that’s a really nice house

Somehow I don’t find that cheaper but thanks for the support, our mortgage would not cover the property taxes on that crib

Chump change my lad, chump change, she liked it so what held you up, win,win

Dirk

[dnwong]

Add a third bay should be fairly reasonable cost wise. I have been toying with the idea of adding a 3rd bay to my 2-car side load garage. Especially if you don't take down the existing exterior wall that would become a interior wall.

Since your house is all brick, there are probably other challenges to doing that. In my case, I would remove the siding, the water table and replace with drywall.

[cmartin]

Nothing a lvl and a sledgehammer cant fix

I'm glad I removed the wall between my new and old space, frees up a ton of space for access or just filling it with more stuff

[dnwong]

Originally Posted by cmartin

Nothing a lvl and a sledgehammer cant fix

I'm glad I removed the wall between my new and old space, frees up a ton of space for access or just filling it with more stuff

Oh, I forgot to mention, I wanted to use it for a woodshop. Need dust control anyways...lol

[trytryagain]

When adding the third bay I recommend opening up the original exterior, now interior, wall as much as possible. This will give you room to open doors without a wall in the way, and generally makes for a much nicer space. I did this when adding my third bay and had an engineer help with the design. In the second picture the white horizontal section that spans the top of the newly opened wall contains an LVL beam that transfers all the added roof weight down to the slab footings.

[Patrick3000]

Originally Posted by racer

Easiest sounds like a side bump out /addition to the right of the GT3.

Remove turnaround space at top of drive

Is there room at the top before fence/tree line in front of the Acura?

Or add a front load garage where the Acura is and link to standing garage at the existing door?
Growing up we had a freestanding garage that was 2 wide and 2 deep.

Buy smaller cars?

Not quite enough room at the top of the driveway for another garage.


Punch a hole through the tree line at the top of the driveway and we have plenty of room.

See below, this picture is behind the tree line and the fence at the top of the driveway.

Plenty of room for a second free standing garage but...





I’m certain that “she” would want to add a pool house etc. on top of a new garage

We are now into project creep...

Most of the older homes in the hood, like mine are tear downs, so a major project is ill advised.

[GT3]

Kiss.
Build one more car storage bay next to existing 2 car garage. Do not touch existing garage exterior wall.
Offset front and rear 6" to foot so don't have to splice walls. Use same pitch on roof and new roof will tuck under existing roof. This design will save $ because no f'ing with existing garage.
Use lvl ridge beam and 2x12 rafters to get cathedral ceiling. Install lift if need store a 4th car.

[GT3]

This is the massing relationship I'm describing with offsets and lower roof

[BlackTalon]

Originally Posted by trytryagain

In the second picture the white horizontal section that spans the top of the newly opened wall contains an LVL beam that transfers all the added roof weight down to the slab footings.

Man, I hope there are some columns or load-bearing walls in between helping the process...

[trytryagain]

Yes. Two heavy posts at the ends of the LVL transferring the load to the slab footing.