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Hello Everyone

I am planning to build a garage.

I have been looking at several options. ( pre-fab, metal, pole )


Have any of you guys put up a garage ?

What would you suggest ?

Thank You
RichC


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Is is a residential garage? If so, try Hardie Board, comes in sheets.

http://www.jameshardie.com/

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

Extra large for your "collection."

If it were me, I'd pour a slab of concrete and build a stud wall structure with HardiPlank cladding with room for a nice workbench at the back. If it's close enough to your house, you can connect it with a breezeway or enclose that and make it into a mud room. That would be nice. Talk to Tom Walgamuth. He's the architect.

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OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

That's what we did, though it's a detached.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

Straw bale and manure.

This image just flashed in my mind:



Help! Help! I'm being opressed!

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

This Old House, ala Monty Python...

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2012 SLK 350
1987 420 SEL

This Old House of Brian?

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

So, why are you talking about getting rid of the S600? Don't you have room in there for it and your new "around-town car?"

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

I am in the building materials business and that is an excellent suggestion. With their Color Plus paint system, you can get it prefinished with a warranty on the paint for 10? years.

Prefab is always cheaper and their are many choices out there. If you want items that aren't available from the prefab people then site built is about the only alternative. Make sure you have at least 9' ceilings and 10' would be better. With 10' ceilings you can fit a lift.

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Doug

1987 300TD x 3
2005 E320CDI

Not unless it was a Bugeye or something along those lines. It's a 2.5 car. Oh well.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

Doug, doesn't Hardi have cement trim pieces as well as just siding? I haven't looked latley, but had awhile ago when I was thinking of having my house resided. My mother's house is HardiPlank and it is the best stuff I've seen.

How does it compare price-wise to good quality vinyl siding?

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" We have nothing to fear but the main stream media itself . . . ."- Adapted from Franklin D Roosevelt for the 21st century

OBK #55

1998 Lincoln Continental - Sold
Max 1984 300TD 285,000 miles - Sold
The Dee8gonator 1987 560SEC 196,000 miles - Sold
Orgasmatron - 2006 CLS500 90,000 miles
2002 C320 Wagon 122,000 miles
2016 AMG GTS 12,000 miles

Absolutely correct on the Extra Large. I've never known someone to have a garage that was too big. Known a bunch that were too small though. It doesn't cost that much more to make it large enough from the get-go.

Here in Alpine we built a 24 x 30 on a concrete slab with 2 x 6 studs, shiplap on the outside, insulated and with plywood interior. 18' insulated garage door on the 24' side. Because of the roof pitch, I also have a store room upstairs that is 12 by 30 with a 7' ceiling height. Stairs are at the back over part of the workbench. Metal roof. I've got room enough in it for the Porsche, Austin-Healey and 280SL and still have room to move around in it. By staggering the vehicles (Porsche in the middle and forward, Healey and 280SL back far enough to open doors all the way) I can work on any of them quite easily.

I contracted it myself. If my memory serves me correctly, the total cost was around $14k, nine years ago.

In Green Valley we also built a 24 x 30, but the door is on the 30' side, with the workbench on the inside front next to the door. No insulation needed there. Flat roof. Slump block construction.

I would have done much of the work on both of these structures, but I was still running my business and it was easier to earn the money there and pay someone else to build the garages. Added note: On hindsight, I could have made them a bit larger.......

Cheers,
Wes

Question Doug. Our Hardie garage has sat unpainted since last fall. I was under the assumption that it did not need primer, but was recently told that if it's since out in the weather for a few months that it will indeed need a coat.

Is this true?

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

I was thinking of strawbale.

But I do not know enough about it.

Have you done one ?

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When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
Jimi Hendrix