garage/workshop layout help needed

[semlin]

yes, I have thought of putting an extra door at the gable end but we have three regularly driven vehicles to park and I don't want to be moving vehicles all the time. One idea I had was to build a wider garage and have the 90 degree turn happen inside the garage with no doors to impede the turn. With the diagram beaufort gave me, I can work out how wide the garage would need to be.

 

[beaufort-fj60]

awesome, thank you beaufort. that makes it crystal clear how you approach this.

I cannot tell anymore when someone is being serious or a smartass.. just in case.

 

[semlin]

I cannot tell anymore when someone is being serious or a smartass.. just in case.

i am srs. thank you. I suck at math and could not figure out how to calculate a turning circle until i saw that.

 

[bsmith123]

I have always wanted to do doors front and rear with a loop behind the garage and back around to the front ---drive in drive out, and a lean-to carport on the other side

 

[semlin]

I have always wanted to do doors front and rear with a loop behind the garage and back around to the front ---drive in drive out, and a lean-to carport on the other side

that is very close to what i am thinking now. widen the garage by one stall into the area where i would have had the 90 degree turn and put two garage doors facing up in that picture and two doors roll out doors facing down but staggered so the garage is an inverted "L". I will be occasionally driving around in my yard but it should work. I will also have some wasted space so that I can park three cars inside a garage with only two doors and pull any of them out, but the new garage is one stall bigger than I originally planned so it is a wash.

 

[bkfj40]

this thread is clear as mud....take one of the sketches above and show all your limitations...

is there a legal reason why you can't put doors on the front? you could then put some side parking to allow you not to move a parked vehicle. I would be hedging towards a double door and a single door - but it seems to me that you are really looking at only having a 2 1/2 car garage with the space and the limits that you are setting yourself up with.


bk