Connie has been beating up on me about getting a garage, so I'm thinking about looking into one. Trying to get a feel for cost and some "gotchas" to keep in mind, so figured I would ask any of you who had a garage built for some input.
I'm thinking of a 3 or 4 door garage, nothing real fancy, just something to put the vehicles inside. Have the two vettes under a detached carport now and both have covers on them. But we don't drive either of them very much, so I have to pop the hood every now and again and chase out any critters trying to make a home there.
I'm thinking about planning ahead a little and getting the ceiling high enough to install a lift sometime in the future. Not sure how robust I would need to make the cement pad to be able to handle such a thing.
Also not sure if a concrete block or metal building would be the better way to go with this. Obviously I want it to be sturdy in case a hurricane does happen to take a bead on us.
Will need some electricity for lights and such, as well as a sink just to wash my hand with. Certainly an A/C unit would be advisable so I could work in there without sweating to death in the summer months. Leaving the doors open to catch a breeze during a mosquito population bloom is out of the question.
The land where the garage will go will need to be cleared of trees before the pad can be put down, so that will be an additional step (expense). Our land is heavily wooded, so trees are definitely going to have to come out.
I'm hoping to get this done by the end of the year if I'm going to do it at all. I don't have a feel for the cost at all, so this might just wind up too expensive to even consider. Plus I had been hoping to get a built motor and new clutch for the C5Z as well as have it painted this year, but I can't afford to do both of them. But maybe getting a garage BEFORE getting the car painted would be a smart idea any way...
So, any thoughts out of you all?