Sad, but kinda not really funny personal story about headspace in a garage.
I built my large-ish vehicle storage garage a few years back. Good budget, knew what I wanted to do with the space, more or less. Broke ground in the late Summer under ideal weather conditions. Way ahead of schedule the whole way through. But right off the bat, the masons were super-flaky. Everything was a debate, despite having excellent drawings. They ended up running an extra course of CMU on the frost walls. Which was fine. But then one morning, before I had to go to work, the carps had put in the sills the day before and were ready to go vertical, so we had to huddle up on the wall framing. "Did I want to run the full 2X6X12 or stick to the plans with respect to interior headspace?" Which would require cutting all the studs down by 7 or 8".
Well, my biggest concern was having enough brick for the exterior veneer. My contractor was responsible for the basic structure and electrical, and I was supplying all the doors, windows, HVAC, fixtures and finishes. I did some quick math and decided the brick was going to be too close for comfort, so I had them chop all the studs.
Uggg. What I would do to go back in time and have another chance to not do that again. Dumb. dumb. dumb.
I had at least two cubes of brick left over after the veneer was up.
But now I've forever got a ~12'4" ceiling instead of 13'+. And for anyone who messes around with cars on storage lifts, that difference is friggin massive. In either case, you couldn't stack two 4X4's, but let's just say I have extensive notes and rely on my laser measurer when I move stuff around. Ramming a vehicle up through a truss bottom chord is not something I ever want to do.
To anyone contemplating a build... don't cheap out on the interior height. More is better. And more than that is better still.
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