Building a Harley garage onto the house
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Building a Harley garage onto the house
So the wife and I were rotating cars to stack the bike in last night and started talking about adding a 3rd car or 'utility' garage onto the house to have a dedicated place for the bike. We're talking about having a garage door on each end so that it would be a pass through to the back yard.
Here's my question, has anyone ever added a garage onto their house? I'm trying to figure out costs but the size will be basically 8x20 (160 sq. ft.) I know that I'm going to have to redo the roof so I'm wondering what kind of cost I'm looking at.
Any help or suggestions is appreciated.
Here's my question, has anyone ever added a garage onto their house? I'm trying to figure out costs but the size will be basically 8x20 (160 sq. ft.) I know that I'm going to have to redo the roof so I'm wondering what kind of cost I'm looking at.
Any help or suggestions is appreciated.
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Depends on where U live first, then how its built, wood or brick out side, roof line to match the house or not tied in...
We Just add room on 16x18 matched roof peaks and tied in. Brick outside matched house, Heat and Air, Wired with 12 inside outlets and 6 spots outside, cement foundation with tile floors, (4) 5X5 windows and 1 door,;: 26k
most charge by square ft......ours ended up little over $90. out of work contractors were hungry, we know we got a good price, and from a good friend.
We Just add room on 16x18 matched roof peaks and tied in. Brick outside matched house, Heat and Air, Wired with 12 inside outlets and 6 spots outside, cement foundation with tile floors, (4) 5X5 windows and 1 door,;: 26k
most charge by square ft......ours ended up little over $90. out of work contractors were hungry, we know we got a good price, and from a good friend.
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Are you going to do it yourself or hire it done. The more you can do yourself, the less the project will cost you. I would also consider going at least 12 wide if you have the room for multiple reasons. Once your digging additional building materials are cheap compared to building and then realizing you built too small. With two bikes there will come a time when you want to get one past the other and will have to move a bike to get the other out etc. If you want to build in any storeage like work benches, cabinets etc, that will also take space. Go slow and think it through before you jump into it and Good Luck!
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My best friend's father in law (whom I know as well) is a builder and I am going to work with him so I don't know how much I'll really be 'doing myself' but it will be a little cheaper. I agree with your reasoning behind looking at going bigger but property lines is going to max me out at 10' - which I probably will do. I'm going to talk to Walter tomorrow (the builder) and see what we can do.
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kick your wife out and park it in the bedroom
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google garage forums. Some of the nicest works I've seen to date, on those sites.
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Yeah, we were quoted $17K for a garage a bit smaller than that! Our metal shed we were using for our two bikes collapsed this winter. It was around 10 x 13, something like that. We are going to go with having a new, wooden "shed" put up that is 12' x 16' and it will cost us around $4900 installed. It will have a rollup door and a 4' ramp. But it's NOT going to be on a cement slab. THAT adds a lot to your price, whatever you have done.