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New Garage Lift |
Unobtanium-inc |
Jan 22 2017, 06:21 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,216 Joined: 29-November 06 From: New York Member No.: 7,276 Region Association: None |
I was having the same problem that many of us have with the car addiction, no room to put them all. I was figuring out what to do and had a couple of options.
1. Buy a building to store them in. This wasn't ideal because it would be a lot of money and the cars would be away from me. 2. Build something else at my house. This wasn't ideal either because I live on a ridge, so my yard is a couple of acres but most of it is a sloping hill, so there wasn't anywhere really to build another garage. Then I had an idea. My two car garage had an attic above it. A friend was building a deck for me so I asked him if we could eliminate the attic and raise the ceiling in the garage. He said no if it was made with truss built, but if it was stick built, sure. Luckily it was stick built so all he had to do was raise the pitch, and he was able to re-use most of the existing lumber! Once the garage was where I wanted it, stage two came in, the lifts. The first lift went in today. My friend Greg helped me put it in, he also ordered it for me, he's the manager of the local NAPA. He had done one before but even with his experience it isn't a simple affair. There are lots of adjustments and a couple of times we had to take stuff apart and put it back together. It took 1.5 days, so it isn't as easy as the manufacturers make it out to be, but it is do-able if you're patient and know tools. I ordered the 2nd lift today and it should be here in a couple of weeks, which works out because the 3rd car, the 993, is coming Feb 4th and the 4th car the 65 Mustang fastback should be done around there too. So overall my review is you can put a lift in your garage yourself but it isn't super duper easy. Attached thumbnail(s) Attached image(s) |
Unobtanium-inc |
Feb 11 2017, 10:50 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 2,216 Joined: 29-November 06 From: New York Member No.: 7,276 Region Association: None |
A couple people have asked me what the difference between "stick built" and "truss built" is. My garage was stick built so we were able to loft the ceiling by moving the horizontal supports higher, we were even able to re-use much of the existing wood. If you garage has trusses you can't do this without making all new trusses, which is very costly.
Here is a pic of the garage mid-build. Attached thumbnail(s) |
mepstein |
Dec 3 2017, 04:33 PM
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914-6 GT in waiting Group: Members Posts: 19,331 Joined: 19-September 09 From: Landenberg, PA/Wilmington, DE Member No.: 10,825 Region Association: MidAtlantic Region |
A couple people have asked me what the difference between "stick built" and "truss built" is. My garage was stick built so we were able to loft the ceiling by moving the horizontal supports higher, we were even able to re-use much of the existing wood. If you garage has trusses you can't do this without making all new trusses, which is very costly. Here is a pic of the garage mid-build. I did the same with my house so I could have a 3rd floor office but instead of raising the floor, I raised the roof so I could have 8' ceiling. Also had to reinforce the floor. Won't do that project again. |
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