Diversity is a good thing. Right?

Just slightly smaller than the house I've just bought!

Al, just make sure your wife keeps thinking the garage was her idea and you can spend as much as you like on it :D
 
Well, 6 x 9 may be overkill. My original plan was to build a 3x6m shed with a wooden floor, built on a frame (not a permanent structure :wink: ) which could be filled with shelves and take all the bits in my rented storage unit and have a rack in one end for doors and wings. So given the opportunity for a double garage, I didn't want to sacrifice that storage. So my thinking was a 6 x 6 garage with the storage stuck on the back. 6 x 6 means a very comfortable 2 cars and a bit of work space around them, or I could squeeze 3 cars in at a pinch with no free space. However, considering the price, I may look at just building a 6 x 6 garage and then making my wooden floored shed and sticking it on the back. That's 50% less concrete slab for a start.
The problem is, the more money I spend on the garage, the less money I can spend on the cars or tools.
 
Being a Kiwi bloke you must have a chainsaw lurking about, Al. Chop down the damn trees and use them for framing timber.
 
The problem is, the more money I spend on the garage, the less money I can spend on the cars or tools.
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Easy way around that, the garage IS A TOOL.
If it were my project, I'd do as much of it as I could myself. I would get some quotes in that include a rough plan/drawing
to give an idea of how it's done and then I would use that as a guide and DIY it as far as I could.
I'm about to start looking at doing it in stages and doing a fair bit myself and eschewing authoritarian approval.
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I would build it "to code" with photos to prove it so that it would possibly be easier to gain approval if push came to shove and
the authorities got bent out of shape at a later stage.

I did some alterations at home that included a garage addition, but at the time Spousal approval only included a flat roof due to
interference with the view, a concept that was both foreign and incomprehensible :roll: ........ Now, there is a building in the way of
said view, so plans are afoot to remove the flat roof and pitch it so I can get a lift installed. The approved plans are for a flat roof
but the "it's easier to beg for forgiveness than ask permission" :mrgreen: :mrgreen: rule is going to come into play here....... Time will tell.
 
I think my agenda would be slightly different, Al. My first priority would be to get all tools and spares under cover in an organised manner. After that I'd want a working space that was large enough not to have to move the car when I wanted to change sides, have the doors open, walk round front and back etc etc. Only then on to undercover storage for the most prized possession! You have far too many cars to get under cover at once, so the logical thing to do is to concentrate on the most vulnerable things, ie you and the spares and tools.

Chris
 
I'm not desperate for that stuff at this point though Chris. All my tools currently live at work anyway (I do very little work at home these days) and the parts are stored under the house or in my lockup. However, the Stag really should be garaged (a: it's worth a few bucks, and b: it leaks) and I could make some decent progress on the EI if it wasn't stuck in the leaky carport.
But the storage is costing me $75 a week so getting out of there would be money in the hand.
Having had a few quotes from the pros, I am inclined to do a fair bit myself I think. I need to chop down a fairly large monkey apple tree for access and I may need pro assistance for that but I should be able to level off the site myself and at least prep for a slab to be laid. And I can get a kitset garage for a not unreasonable sum which I should be able to build with minimal assistance. Power and drainage may be another matter.
 
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