Appreciate everyone's thoughts. Lots of good suggestions here. I will say that this is primarily a car building garage, rather than a storage garage. So maximizing space for cars is lower on the list than creating a good environment for the kinds of moderate to severe car builds I do.
Putting two doors on the front of the garage would require some fairly expensive earthquake-proofing. Even going with a 12 x 12 door on this wall was a challenge. The precise reasoning for this is beyond my depth.
Good suggestion about swinging the man-door out, cabby. The man-door out of the garage is fairly fixed, as it is located just opposite the back door to the house. I'll likely build a breezeway between the garage and the house to provide cover during monsoon season.
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Originally Posted by dad911
I put it in cad, here are a few configurations. Let me know if you want to try anything else.
I like 1 angled, 1 straight in, much easier to maneuver, less floor space needs to be open.
No door between storage and garage? Think about framing the header/opening, and covering with sheetrock, so if you change mind it can be opened up easily. |
Wow--much appreciate this, dad! Very cool and generous of you. I too like the one straight, one angled. That's where I'm leaning, although putting the scissor lift right in front of the door would be good for use as a car wash station. I like to put cars up in the air for washing/detailing, and the slab will be sloped for runoff.
There will certainly be a door between the storage and garage. I think it will likely be toward the house side (where the side an door is). We have removed the man door out from the storage area because the slope of the hill will block it, and have a man door about even with the right front tire of the straight-in car in your diagram.
Here's a shot looking as if you were standing at the garage door looking toward the inside and back. The circled hill cut is 8 feet high, so we'll be building the back concrete wall of the storage area that high.
