Building A Room Under A Garage

We spoke to a local building inspector and asked about the most common mistakes made by homeowners when building a garage.

Building a room under a garage.

Building an enclosed room is simple and inexpensive. Our customers knew they wanted the hollow core garage floor so we designed the house with that in mind. Now you have the area you need for a new office. There will likely be several inspections at different stages of the building process.

Old tin cans liquor bottles license plates and a multitude of children s toys were found under the garage floor. The garage floor planks were specifically engineered and manufactured for the home by j. Carrara sons inc from middlebury vt. Double hung windows are usually easier to put in and will offer a great deal of protection from air escaping from your new garage room.

Underneath this garage supporting my truck and car will be my commercial woodworking shop. Oh and they install this in one day. Drive under garage house plans vary in their layouts but usually offer parking that is accessed from the front of the home with stairs and sometimes an elevator also leading upstairs to living spaces. Most of my plumbing and stuff runs around the floor joists down there so i wanted enough room to have access to everything but i didn t want to build an eight foot wall it took me 7 weeks to do the block for the garage workshop and storage room so saving 4 feet of wall seemed like a good idea.

Drive under garage house plans maximize your sloping lot with these home plans which feature garages located on a lower level. Since the insulation in a garage isn t generally the greatest you will want to install energy efficient windows. Basement under garage i ve done a couple houses with rooms under the garage generally the engineer has called for 12 thick steel reinforced foundation walls on all four sides and flexicore pre engineered concrete slabs for the garage floor with the flexicore bolted directly to the foundation. It was a very sloping lot so it would have taken a tremendous amount of fill to get to an on grade slab.

The spancrete floor will add about 8 000 to the cost but then again i don t have to build a floor. These enclosed rooms in your garage add value to your property and bring extra order out of the chaos of a large and open garage. The entry to the underneath space was a slightly shortened door to a dirt floor storage space which ran under the breezeway and the garage. When the foundation was installed a special cut out or shelf was poured for the garage walls.

My garage will be 36 feet long with a clear 28 foot span.