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Jim Holden · 01-15-07, 04:55 PM

Ron:

I have a 30'x36' garage with a 16' wide rollup door in one end offset with a passage door alongside. The eaves are 12" high and at the moment I have one lift. Along the other side I built a mezzanine for storage with a bathroom and shower in one corner (my wonderfully tolerant spouse said; "At your age you don't want to have to keep coming up to the house...") I can fit four cars relatively comfortably on the floor with a fifth one up on the lift.

My priorities included the best lighting that I could fould so I have six low bay Halites, plus numerous highhats under the mezzanine. Compressor, plenty of electrical outlets and a 30 year old $125.00 Radio Shack stereo topped the list of "must haves".

If I were to do it all again, I would make it 4' longer and put the furnace up on the mezzanine. But that is minor. It's my inner sanctum and while there the rest of the world could blow up and I'd neither know it nor care.

Jim

PS: ...and the increase in real property taxes here in the NE is a very real inevitability.

01-15-07, 04:55 PM	#37 (permalink)
Jim Holden ERA Rookie Join Date: May 2004 Location: White Plains, New York GT40: ERA2077 Posts: 83 Rep Power: 5	Re: Garage - What features would you select? Ron: I have a 30'x36' garage with a 16' wide rollup door in one end offset with a passage door alongside. The eaves are 12" high and at the moment I have one lift. Along the other side I built a mezzanine for storage with a bathroom and shower in one corner (my wonderfully tolerant spouse said; "At your age you don't want to have to keep coming up to the house...") I can fit four cars relatively comfortably on the floor with a fifth one up on the lift. My priorities included the best lighting that I could fould so I have six low bay Halites, plus numerous highhats under the mezzanine. Compressor, plenty of electrical outlets and a 30 year old $125.00 Radio Shack stereo topped the list of "must haves". If I were to do it all again, I would make it 4' longer and put the furnace up on the mezzanine. But that is minor. It's my inner sanctum and while there the rest of the world could blow up and I'd neither know it nor care. Jim PS: ...and the increase in real property taxes here in the NE is a very real inevitability. __________________ Jim Holden Last edited by ERA; 01-15-07 at 05:19 PM.