After 20 years working in a single car garage and having done 3 restorations ,Ive pulled the trigger on a 32X24 2 bay shop.Its a pole barn by Pioneer pole barns of Pennsylvania.Im psyched!
Congratulations,having more room is always a plus,but no mater how big you go it's never big enough. HRP
No matter how big it is they soon become too small. I used to be a lot more productive before I had a shop. Go figure.
You will love it, I'm sure. I had mine built in 2014, also by Pioneer but in northern Michigan. 30'x40' and it's already full with 2 cars, a tractor, a hay-wagon, 2 ATVs, 2 lawn tractors, a parts department and office. . . It's being used temporarily for storage until we move to our retirement home at the same location. But like she - er - some say - it's never big enough. Enjoy!
I'm in a 20x20 2 car garage, but will be moving in the next 6 months or so, one of the requirements is a larger garage, or at least space to build a larger/extra garage/workshop. Post pics! My parents just built a 50x30, but they put a 36 foot fifth wheel camper in there that already occupied a large chunk of it. (I was hoping to carve out space to store a car there)
Congrats! I am so happy to finally have my own home and a 2 car garage to work out of so I could only imagine how happy you are.
Congrats you'll love it. Alas it will seem to shrink. I started in the back yard with tarps(1971), to a 24x28 garage(1973), to a 28x32(1987), and finally a 40x64 with 12' walls(2003).
Like everyone said, it will seem to shrink after you move in. Thought the 25x40 building would be all I ever would need but outgrew it in a couple years. Ended up picking up one of those 40ft shipping containers to handle the overflow. I can move around again and park 4 cars in it if I have to. Guy behind me is putting up a 30x50 building. Looked huge when it was just the concrete slab and metal beam frame work. After the siding started going on, not so much.
LOL...Just to make you guys more appreciative of what you've got....I'm in a single car enclosed carport with a dirt floor. pita, but when I started the car I didn't have the carport yet.! Before I started re***embling the car after painting, I had to widen and lengthen it by 3 feet so I could open both doors and have room to walk around it with the front fenders on. At least now I have some heat and A/C. I must say, since all of the pieces are now back on the car, I feel like I've got lots of space! It was a major pita when the car was totally dis***embled, and parts everywhere..
Could be worse... like an apartment with a detached 1-car garage and no driveway, and ***ociation rules that prohibit working on cars.
Eight years ago when I retired, I built a 24' X 32' shop for myself. Local rules would not allow any building to be higher than the house (single story) so I couldn't have a ceiling higher than 8'. So, no lift, but I thought it would be just fine for 2 cars. However, it's OK for 2 cars to park, but no where near large enough to work on 1 car when the other is in there. Space is always a problem for all of us, I guess. Jim
When I was 19 and had my first apartment I had two parking spaces, my S10 and fox mustang with a cover on it, a storm blew in, while I was at work and took the cover off, the complex had it towed for its lack of gloss paint and one low tire, and the impound lot stripped all my speed goodies, all in a 12 hour period. At 19 I thought it was the end of the world.
I've built a few cars in less that plush surroundings. This was just a step up from working in the yard,dirt floor,extension cord run from the house,no heat in the winter and wasp in the summer.HRP
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