Cost for free standing 2 car garage

[Track Junky]

Nice going Greg!! Love those pic's

[Vince@Meanstreets]

i'd so jump in your pool..... lol

[pokey64]

Originally Posted by Track Junky

Not to far off considering you did some of the work yourself. Just out of curiosity, how long does it take you midwest boys to put up 1000 sf?

It was early winter 2008 when my carpenter started on our garage so there were a few weather days that broke up the work. I'd guess total it took them 6 days. 3 days had it framed, sheeted, shingles down, and siding on. The other 3 days was insulation, overhead doors, lining interior, and misc work to wrap it up.

Here's a couple pics of it. There was 3900sqft of exterior flat work included in my number that was poured in the spring.




Here's a couple recent interior shots.



In hindsight I wish I went with a taller side wall and vaulted ceiling. (and double the size) When we first planned the garage we didn't have major car projects in our heads. It was more for storage...

[GregWeld]

Sorry -- Didn't mean to jack the thread (again).... but wanted to show the OP that it is possible to build this kind of stuff yourself if you're so inclined. It wasn't my intent to build mine - but after watching the crew that was hired to put up my metal building I fired them. I got on the phone and called one of my buddies (also retired) and told him to put his big boy pants on 'cause we have a building to build!

Mine is 38'X50' with 14' sidewalls and a custom 6/12 pitch roof... and is clear span.

I have since taken off the inappropriate metal roof and sheeted it and roofed it to match the house. And during the remodel we're planning on the house I may have them sheet the side and hardy plank it (also to match the house)... but the dark green siding works "fine" and hides it in the trees so you really don'e see much of it. Those pics were taken during construction - and that was 7 years ago... the landscaping was all designed to make the building "go away".

[GregWeld]

On top of taller sidewalls --- I would also recommend putting in electrically operated SKYLIGHTS with Screens! I use them all the time in the summer to let the heat OUT... and if I'm running a car -- or welding (a lot) I open them and let the stink out.




At the time -- the building costs were doubled because of the 3 skylights -- adding the 6/12 pitch roof and using standing seam roofing - going with bigger garage doors (cost did NOT include the actual garage doors) -- one is 12 X 14 and one is 10 X 12 - and I did the extended eve so it looks like a house not a metal building and DRUM ROLL...... that all doubled the cost from 10 grand to 20!!! Thats for a 38 X 50 clear span. Here's a pic of the SPACE inside. This was prior to finish work but you get the picture.

[Track Junky]

Originally Posted by pokey64

It was early winter 2008 when my carpenter started on our garage so there were a few weather days that broke up the work. I'd guess total it took them 6 days. 3 days had it framed, sheeted, shingles down, and siding on. The other 3 days was insulation, overhead doors, lining interior, and misc work to wrap it up.

Here's a couple pics of it. There was 3900sqft of exterior flat work included in my number that was poured in the spring.




Here's a couple recent interior shots.



In hindsight I wish I went with a taller side wall and vaulted ceiling. (and double the size) When we first planned the garage we didn't have major car projects in our heads. It was more for storage...

Very Nice

[GregWeld]

Nice drag strip!

[ricer]

We built a 25x25 at our old house...now we did all the labor so it saved a decent amount of money......but if you have an 84 lumber near you they sell garage "kits" other companies offer as well...but comes with architecture approved plans and directions if you need them. they offer various sizes, styles, options, etc. We spec'd ours out, and materials alone were in the $4-5K range, then we had to do the foundation work, it sucked and will never do it again. Had to go 48" down to the frost line and build up from there . When all said and done i think we had a little over 6-7K in it for completed building and electrical...so only thing left was insulation sheetrock. For under 10K you can have a pretty nice garage.

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by ricer

We built a 25x25 at our old house...now we did all the labor so it saved a decent amount of money......but if you have an 84 lumber near you they sell garage "kits" other companies offer as well...but comes with architecture approved plans and directions if you need them. they offer various sizes, styles, options, etc. We spec'd ours out, and materials alone were in the $4-5K range, then we had to do the foundation work, it sucked and will never do it again. Had to go 48" down to the frost line and build up from there . When all said and done i think we had a little over 6-7K in it for completed building and electrical...so only thing left was insulation sheetrock. For under 10K you can have a pretty nice garage.

[ricer]

Originally Posted by GregWeld

hahah i know, but this was 5-6yrs ago and fresh out of college, first house, just married....so we weren't the most technology savy people back then and would take the memory card to say a CVS or something (the kiosk there) and print our pictures and delete the cards so we had room to take more......i will see if i can find something maybe in my photobucket account.

These are the best i have, but the garage wasn't complete at the time. Still had to put the windows/siding up