I am designing my detached 4-car garage. What I have so far is it will be 46 feet wide by 27 feet long. Two garage doors @ 18 feet by 8 feet.
My question is in regards to door height. Will an 8 foot high door be adequate for a 4x4 truck? I am assuming a small tractor will need a taller down than 8 feet, correct?
I need the parking space (2 or 3 vehicles) and some storage and maybe a small workspace.
I might get a small tractor and park that in there also.
are you going to heat and/or cool the entire garage? or just heat/cool shop area?
are you going to just put gravel for a floor? or pour a concrete slab?
are you looking at stick building? 2x4's, 2x6's, 2x8's, 2x10's, with siding and shingled roof like how a house might be built? or are you looking at a pole barn. with metal sheeting for sides and roof?
1000's of ways to do things, just trying to figure out some basics of what you want, besides questioning height. some ways of buildings, example pool barns, can be possibly cheaper to buy and have a higher height, and if not heating / cooling, can allow you to buy some "clear" plastic sheeting for easy "sun light" to come through in a few spots in the roof.
on other hand, you might be wanting everything to tie into the look of the house, for a "theme" and looks. and wanting to heat / cool and costs and construction can change. there are good amount of "metal shed companies" out there, some in state some out of state, that can come in and build an entire metal shed, with insulation, and heating. fairly quickly. vs say a stick building.
higher ceiling, = putting up lights higher for wide area lighting, vs placing a bunch of florescent bulbs ever so many feet, to try and light everything up.
