3 Car Garage???

  • Steve Plantz
    SE MN
    Posts: 12240
    March 30, 2011 at 12:41 pm #952100

    Quote:

    I do offer storage for boats, but my rent fee is “if your not using your boat, snowmobile, or wheeler, I get to use it without asking”

    That is a great idea!

    rochelle_peterson
    Minnesota
    Posts: 26
    April 2, 2011 at 12:51 pm #953347

    When we built our house 7 years ago, we built the 3 car garage so it was big enough to fit the boat (28ft x 30ft) And of course the garage has an 8 ft. wide door on the third stall, insulation, heat, hot and cold water, a floor drain, tv, all the extras. Now, it’s packed full and we are talking about building a shed…

    flatfish
    Rochester, MN
    Posts: 2105
    April 2, 2011 at 9:26 pm #953441

    Just hearing all this makes me want to add to my debt, and build a damn garage
    the problem I am having is on 2 1/2 acres, I already have a 24×24 detached garage, and the CODE people are saying my max is 1500 Sq Ft. Take the 576 already from the 24×24 and that doesn’t leave much I feel like putting a dome over the whole damn place
    Other option is attaching the current garage to the house with a ‘breeze-way’, and then put up the 1500 foot building darn price just went way up

    Michael C. Winther
    Reedsburg, WI
    Posts: 1502
    April 2, 2011 at 10:23 pm #953453

    we went through the same thing last spring.

    our old house was 100 years old with a nice detached 25′ deep 2 1/2 stall garage that we called “the warehouse”.

    looking at new houses was a garage nightmare. pretty much anything that isn’t custom built comes with a “2 car” garage that is 21’6″ deep and more like 1 1/2 stalls…we compromised and got the house we wanted without the garage I wanted because with only 2 of us we didn’t need a mansion and the extra $100k in cost.

    later this spring i’m putting up a shed to store all the tools so that we’ll be able to open car doors when 2 vehicles are inside.

    this week the concrete guy is pouring a slab next to the garage to park the boat on. it’ll sit outside with the cover on for now until i can get a carport built over it. a full garage expansion was in the $40k range when i had a contractor provide an estimate.

    Fife
    Ramsey, MN
    Posts: 4046
    April 12, 2011 at 11:53 am #956281

    The search has ended. We bought a house with a 2 car attached garage and a 26’X 30′ detached garage. My boat isn’t going to fill that entire garage, so I think I better find some more toys to put in it.

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