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Building a Garage
Feb 8^th, 2010 at 10:28pm

Been talking with Mike about his new garage. I have made a few calls and got some quotes and I decided to go with the same company that Mike used. He is well satisfied with the work they did for him. Mine will be a three door one and the size will be 30 X 40 with the 3 doors on the 40 side, height will be 10 feet inside. Won't be getting it started until the ground thaws out. Keep you posted when it starts and as it progresses along. The doors will be 8 X 9 's and it will be nice to pull into a garage where I will have more clearance than 3 to 4 inches on each side of the mirrors.

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Reply #3 - Feb 8^th, 2010 at 11:36pm

Right now it's a place to park the Vettes and the MGB. I have them all stored in my cellar except for the 78 that is on my trailer in a building that my neighbor own. With 3 bays I should be able to store/park the vettes and during the winter get the MG in front of the Vettes or just keep it in the cellar. I will move my work bench and tools into the garage.

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Knotacare YaBB Administrator Offline BB's Rock Posts: 4607 Newark,Delaware Gender:	Re: Building a Garage Reply #4 - Feb 8^th, 2010 at 11:44pm Sound great, Mike has a real nice garage. I saw it when it was just installed & will finally see the finished product in March I hope. You will sure enjoy the space. Alan
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wnmech Global Moderator Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 1836 Grand Prairie Texas Gender:	Re: Building a Garage Reply #5 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 2:32am Ed I am jealous. I would die to have a garage bigger than I have now. Rick
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Reply #6 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 5:11am

Ed,
Great news, I know you will be happy. This was the best thing I have done since meeting my wife, having children, and buying a corvette. I know they will do a good job. As I say with mine I will use it as a place to park cars and the other garage it for the work. My new garage is very nice I do need to post some updated pictures soon.
Good luck my friend.
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Reply #7 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 12:06pm

Knotacare wrote on Feb 8^th, 2010 at 11:44pm:

Sound great, Mike has a real nice garage. I saw it when it was just installed & will finally see the finished product in March I hope. You will sure enjoy the space.
Alan Smiley

Congrats Ed on your Garage...

Has anyone besides Mike seen Alan's GARAGE! Cheesy

If I lived anywhere near Newark, Alan would have to kick me out every night! Grin

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seventyate Senior Member Offline My C3 is a "76" Posts: 399 Scott Township (Montdale) Pa. Gender:	Re: Building a Garage Reply #8 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 8:09pm Thanks for all the comments, I have been putting this off for a couple of years. My wife was always saying put up a garage, mainly because her car was outside to make room for the Vettes. She use to say, I have a garage I could drive in and park in the winters but it has become a storage area. Ed
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Re: Building a Garage
Reply #9 - Feb 9^th, 2010 at 8:20pm

Mike, Leon is going to call me when he is in the area and check out the location, talk about the color and what I need to do for prep work. I have two spots picked out where it could go, I am going to let him pick the better of the two. The one that will require less work to level. I talked to one dealer then called another and both of them had a Brian answerer. So at first, I thought I had called the one right back and I didn't but I told the second guy I was talking to the other one and he cut up their business telling me why he was better than them. He was off my list as a potential builder. Don't like or trust these guys that have to knock the other ones down. Your guy, Leon was very nice and sent me the prints and paper work needed for the permit and will be driving up to talk. Plus with you using him because your friend did and now me because you did, you can't go wrong when you have word of mouth spreading your business.

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Re: Building a Garage
Reply #11 - Feb 10^th, 2010 at 2:14am

seventyate wrote on Feb 9^th, 2010 at 8:20pm:

Mike, Leon is going to call me when he is in the area and check out the location, talk about the color and what I need to do for prep work. I have two spots picked out where it could go, I am going to let him pick the better of the two. The one that will require less work to level. I talked to one dealer then called another and both of them had a Brian answerer. So at first, I thought I had called the one right back and I didn't but I told the second guy I was talking to the other one and he cut up their business telling me why he was better than them. He was off my list as a potential builder. Don't like or trust these guys that have to knock the other ones down. Your guy, Leon was very nice and sent me the prints and paper work needed for the permit and will be driving up to talk. Plus with you using him because your friend did and now me because you did, you can't go wrong when you have word of mouth spreading your business.

Ed

Sounds like U made the right choice!

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Re: Building a Garage
Reply #12 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 9:58pm

Well, we are on our way, I reduced the size to the same size Mike built due to my thinking the 30 X 40 was way more than I needed and I would have to do too much filling in on the property. So we are going with a 24 X 32 with the 32 in the front with 2 bay doors 8 X 12. One side entry door and two windows. The excavator was here and due to the rain has to wait but the ground is marked out. The garage builder was here today and the deal is sealed. Now we have to wait on the weather. Will post pic's as things progress.

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blue 77 Top Gun Member Offline purchased new in 77 Posts: 982 Abilene, Texas Gender:	Re: Building a Garage Reply #13 - Mar 30^th, 2010 at 10:08pm Ed, waiting on the weather is the hard part. Looking forward to seeing the pic's. Good Luck. Dale
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ZIPP Junior Member Offline I love my Vette! Posts: 39 PITTSBURGH PA Gender:	Re: Building a Garage Reply #14 - Mar 31^st, 2010 at 4:58am I am also thinking of building a garage about the same size. Whats the ball park cost so i have an idea of whats fair ? ZIPP
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