Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads?

[uk66fastback]

C70R: it would be good to be able to open the doors on both sides of the cars with them side by side in the garage … then it’s wide enough …

[vulture1]

Ian974 said:

Still some extra sockets and wiring to tidy up on mine, but I'm calling it done for now.
Tiling was definitely a good decision and already a much nicer place for spannering away on the bikes and cars.
Just need to sort out something for hanging the bikes out of the way!

Looking good. I nearly commented that this looked familiar until I saw the username

[C70R]

uk66fastback said:

C70R: it would be good to be able to open the doors on both sides of the cars with them side by side in the garage … then it’s wide enough …

If a car is 2m max (and most are less), then I'd imagine (on the rare occasion I needed both doors open side-by-side) 6m would be sufficient.

[Gad-Westy]

C70R said:

uk66fastback said:

C70R: it would be good to be able to open the doors on both sides of the cars with them side by side in the garage … then it’s wide enough …

If a car is 2m max (and most are less), then I'd imagine (on the rare occasion I needed both doors open side-by-side) 6m would be sufficient.

I would think so. Guess you'll lose a little width to the wall thickness and dividing wall too. Do you want to work on cars in there?

[C70R]

Gad-Westy said:

I would think so. Guess you'll lose a little width to the wall thickness and dividing wall too. Do you want to work on cars in there?

The plan would be to have no divider between the two 'bays', so I'd be able to move one car out and park the other diagonally if I needed to work on the whole car (e.g. four corners on axle stands). Otherwise, if (for some reason) I couldn't move the other car and needed to be in the dry I could just back the car out and work under the bonnet inside. There's plenty of parking outside of the garage, so that's not an issue.

I'm in two minds as to whether I'd even need doors on the side that I'd keep the 'fun' car in if there was no divider, but I tend to feel like it might keep the car a bit cleaner. There's no real security issue, as the garage would be out of sight from the front of the house. I'd prefer not to have doors on the side that I'd put my 'daily' in, so I could just drive in and out without the faff of attending to doors. Maybe electric doors on both sides is the answer, but it seems like overkill for a simple cart shed?

ETA - No need for any storage, because I have a large shed.

[Gad-Westy]

C70R said:

Gad-Westy said:

I would think so. Guess you'll lose a little width to the wall thickness and dividing wall too. Do you want to work on cars in there?

The plan would be to have no divider between the two 'bays', so I'd be able to move one car out and park the other diagonally if I needed to work on the whole car (e.g. four corners on axle stands). Otherwise, if (for some reason) I couldn't move the other car and needed to be in the dry I could just back the car out and work under the bonnet inside. There's plenty of parking outside of the garage, so that's not an issue.

I'm in two minds as to whether I'd even need doors on the side that I'd keep the 'fun' car in if there was no divider, but I tend to feel like it might keep the car a bit cleaner. There's no real security issue, as the garage would be out of sight from the front of the house. I'd prefer not to have doors on the side that I'd put my 'daily' in, so I could just drive in and out without the faff of attending to doors. Maybe electric doors on both sides is the answer, but it seems like overkill for a simple cart shed?

ETA - No need for any storage, because I have a large shed.

Yeah, if you're having no partition wall I'd definitely either have both with doors or both open.

[RacingPete]

C70R said:

If a car is 2m max (and most are less), then I'd imagine (on the rare occasion I needed both doors open side-by-side) 6m would be sufficient.

My new build house (which I’m still waiting for completion) has a double garage with dimensions 6.6m width x 7.6m depth - so I would presume if new builds are that size you should be looking similar.

[Jonny TVR]

I think standard size for a garage is 6 x 6m.

[C70R]

RacingPete said:

C70R said:

If a car is 2m max (and most are less), then I'd imagine (on the rare occasion I needed both doors open side-by-side) 6m would be sufficient.

My new build house (which I’m still waiting for completion) has a double garage with dimensions 6.6m width x 7.6m depth - so I would presume if new builds are that size you should be looking similar.

So this is just going to be a place to park cars and occasionally tinker with them. I don't need to store tools and spares here, and I don't need a workbench or working space.

I suspect your garage was spec'd with space for all of the above (and probably access via the side/rear too), hence the extra metre or so.

[RATATTAK]

Jonny TVR said:

I think standard size for a garage is 6 x 6m.

5840 x 5840 to work brick size

[ten200]

My garage has internal dimensions of 5.5m x 5.5m. I can squeeze two cars into it (BMW Z4 and Mini Clubman, both 2005-ish models). The car on the left has to go in forwards, and the one of the right has to reverse in. If they are both nearly touching the wall, there's enough room to open the driver's door without hitting the other car.

I'd say that 5.5m wide is too small, you need to be really bloody-minded to make the effort to put the cars in the garage. I'd buy a another house with an existing garage of that size if that's all I could get, but there's no way that I'd spend tens of thousands of my own money building a new garage that size.

It needs to be 6m wide as a comfortable minimum, but you should allow more room if you want to open the cars' passenger doors, and even more if you want to store anything in the garage.

[Zarco]

I've gone 6x6m for the one I'm having built. I've got a couple of small storage rooms tacked on the end, so it's 8m long overall. I'm fairly confident that will be enough for a couple of cars and bikes. I'm no mechanic so don't need loads of storage and space to work.

Obviously I'd like to go bigger but it's already costing an arm and a leg. Well worth reading this thread for ideas on size and features. I've saved loads of bookmarks.

Work doesn't start until October so nothing to see yet.

[Jules Sunley]

We have toyed with sizes and are having an oak double garage built with a barn hip roof. Just awaiting confirmation of a start date. Decided to go with 6m deep by 6.5m wide with doors on both sides and no dividers.

Had planned on one open and one with doors but that would need a dividing wall to be properly useful and that impedes door opening space in the middle as I wanted a big open space and option to park diagonally if wanted for polishing/tinkering/general feeling of space so both with doors is the plan now.

Edited by Jules Sunley on Wednesday 25th May 22:48

[julian64]

Jules Sunley said:

We have toyed with sizes and are having an oak double garage built with a barn hip roof. Just awaiting confirmation of a start date. Decided to go with 6m deep by 6.5m wide with doors on both sides and no dividers.

Had planned on one open and one with doors but that would need a dividing wall to be properly useful and that impedes door opening space in the middle us I wanted a big open space and option to park diagonally if wanted for polishing/tinkering/general feeling of space so both with doors is the plan now.

wise

[C70R]

Jules Sunley said:

We have toyed with sizes and are having an oak double garage built with a barn hip roof. Just awaiting confirmation of a start date. Decided to go with 6m deep by 6.5m wide with doors on both sides and no dividers.

Had planned on one open and one with doors but that would need a dividing wall to be properly useful and that impedes door opening space in the middle us I wanted a big open space and option to park diagonally if wanted for polishing/tinkering/general feeling of space so both with doors is the plan now.

I'm leaning this way, but stuck with a conundrum.
A. If I get a fancy electric garage door, so that I actually use the garage for my 'boring' car, it will look rubbish on an oak cart shed.
B. If I get lovely oak stable doors, I'll never bother to use the garage for my 'boring' car.

[bertie]

C70R said:

I'm leaning this way, but stuck with a conundrum.
A. If I get a fancy electric garage door, so that I actually use the garage for my 'boring' car, it will look rubbish on an oak cart shed.
B. If I get lovely oak stable doors, I'll never bother to use the garage for my 'boring' car.

I worried the same, now I'v done the swap to electric secional doors (scroll back a few posts) I actualy dont think they look bad at all, and it's 1000x more usable

[Jonny TVR]

I'm moving to a house with electric up and over doors. I'm having them taken out as I'm putting 4 post lifts in and need the headroom. Originally looked at electric sectional but didn't give me the headroom still even with moving the runner right to the ceiling. Was going to go with the roller shutter but just couldn't live with the "commercial" look of them. So decided to go with good quality handmade wooden doors without power. I have these at the moment and you can insulate the gaps well, mine was heated and humidified and all worked well. The cars in the garage aren't daily drives so really doesn't matter to me about the automation and they look good.

[C70R]

bertie said:

C70R said:

I'm leaning this way, but stuck with a conundrum.
A. If I get a fancy electric garage door, so that I actually use the garage for my 'boring' car, it will look rubbish on an oak cart shed.
B. If I get lovely oak stable doors, I'll never bother to use the garage for my 'boring' car.

I worried the same, now I'v done the swap to electric secional doors (scroll back a few posts) I actualy dont think they look bad at all, and it's 1000x more usable

Your garage is fantastic, but those doors aren't to my taste. Sorry!

[ARFBY]

bertie said:

therealsamdailly said:

Quite like the idea of hinged barn doors - I think they'd get annoying quite quickly in real life

I'm leaning towards roller shutter at the moment

I had hinged wooden barn doors, absolute pain manually, automating them is ugly inside.

In the end I bit the bullet and fitted sectional insulated doors which are properly water / draught tight end mean the dehumidifiers work

Those barn doors do look nice, but your new ones really "pop". The colour contrast looks great. Superb choice.

[bertie]

C70R said:

bertie said:

C70R said:

I'm leaning this way, but stuck with a conundrum.
A. If I get a fancy electric garage door, so that I actually use the garage for my 'boring' car, it will look rubbish on an oak cart shed.
B. If I get lovely oak stable doors, I'll never bother to use the garage for my 'boring' car.

I worried the same, now I'v done the swap to electric secional doors (scroll back a few posts) I actualy dont think they look bad at all, and it's 1000x more usable

Your garage is fantastic, but those doors aren't to my taste. Sorry!

Personal choice, but you clearly understand the dilema, looks vs usasbility

I found the pain of havign to unlock and open door, pin them back both sides one by one, get in the car and drive it out, get out the car and shut and lock the doors, and worse the reverse on return especuialy in the rain, just too much.
I meant I didnt use the cars in that garage as much as the ones near the house. Add in the better sealing and insulation and for me it's the best thing I've done to the place.