Shite like that is one of the reasons we moved out of the suburbs 3 years ago. Too many restrictions on what you can and cannot do….
How high should I make my ceiling in my new shop,,,10 feet or 12 feet
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JD’sBarracuda
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I’d go 12! Lifts are nice!
b’s duster
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12’ at least. while my picture doesn’t show the whole bay (for those of you with garage envy), putting my Ram1500 on the lift cannot go to the full extension if I want to fully stand underneath it (I’m 5’10). My lift is a two post without a top bar
My rotary 2 post needs 11.5ft
If you cant raise the ceiling lower the floor.
Ha
12.5 foot peak built the pole barn a foot out of the ground but then would have door problems so filled in around it to the 10ft ceiling height it tapers up to about 11 in the middle...installed an in ground if I open the door with a car all the way up it will hit the car
Sad part is my building is on solid sand stone had to pay my friend to bring in a machine with a jack hammer said he couldn't hear for two days after
I have a height restriction in my hood
12.5 foot peak built the pole barn a foot out of the ground but then would have door problems so filled in around it to the 10ft ceiling height it tapers up to about 11 in the middle...installed an in ground if I open the door with a car all the way up it will hit the car
Sad part is my building is on solid sand stone had to pay my friend to bring in a machine with a jack hammer said he couldn't hear for two days after
Just remember the added height needed to leave the hood up when you raise a car all the way. 14' works really well!
Alan J Odze
AJ
Your right the town only measured the L and W. They could care less how tall it was.
Zoning cares about hight
Inertia
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That's why I changed mine to a "barn" ( agriculture), no height.
John Trickler
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I've had 2 shops, one 16' tall, this one is 12' tall. I have a 2 post lift with this shop. I am only 5'10" so even with my pick-up on the lift I am ok. Biggest mistake I made is making my big door 10'x10' with a standard garage door as my main door. I wish I had my small door 10'10' with the other door as big as possible
At my house 12.5 is the limit
At the shop can't have a living space over a mechanic shop
So when I put a gable over the flat roof could only go so high
Think I would have to get farm assessment to do that
At the shop can't have a living space over a mechanic shop
So when I put a gable over the flat roof could only go so high
Think I would have to get farm assessment to do that
Just added a man door to my old pole barn
22 years of pulling open a garage door
What an improvement
22 years of pulling open a garage door
What an improvement
12 ft minimum and provisions to easily add a restroom! Pour the floor thick enough to accommodate a 2 post just in case. Voice of experience!
think its 4"
mcodecuda
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AgreedIt does increase your cubic footage.
oi81b4uu812b4
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I am in the suburbs. But… liberals wanted windmills everywhere. They became ugly eyesores. So everyone gets punished with building regulations because nobody wanted them built where they could be seen by boaters on the Great Lakes. I live off the bay.
Not just liberals. Deep red state Texas has more wind power than any other state. If it were a country, it would rank fifth in the world. Wind power in Texas - Wikipedia
By the way, I live a mile outside the Tallahassee city limits. When I moved here in 2004, I specifically looked for a neighborhood with big lots and without any HOA's. My neighborhood everyone has 2+ acre heavily wooded lots, and most of them have outbuildings of one sort or another. As far as I'm concerned, it's a much more attractive neighborhood than the ones with precisely manicured lawns and near total bans on any outbuildings.
Also, every house is different, unlike the cookie cutter subdivisions springing up all over. Our streets originally were all dirt, but over the years most of them have been paved.
Interesting that our neighborhood was once owned by the Alford family, who for decades owned the Chevy dealership in town. That's the reason two streets over is named "Chevy Way."
Also, every house is different, unlike the cookie cutter subdivisions springing up all over. Our streets originally were all dirt, but over the years most of them have been paved.
Interesting that our neighborhood was once owned by the Alford family, who for decades owned the Chevy dealership in town. That's the reason two streets over is named "Chevy Way."
So that extra 2 feet of dirt could be removed after they leave. lol
Inertia
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Being able to fully open the hood while the vehicle is up, is truly an advantage when working/replacing engines, tranny's, etc. just for the light from above .
They never came back after the build
Funny cause you can't hardly see it from
The road ...im on 6 ac it would be nice a couple of feet higher but it's my hobby shop
The old pole barn is only 7ft on the end ...
And I worked out of there for years
6PakBee
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I'd go 13'. If you have a full size pickup, 12' is doable but you don't have a lot of margin. My shop (steel building) is 11' at the eaves and 13' at the peak and I had to locate my hoist so a pickup cab fits in the peak with the hoist fully up.
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