Greg.......... you gonna have one of these in the new house?

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I gotcha... that makes sense.

They started building suspended floor garages around here a few years ago, mainly due to fill reasons but it morphed into a feature. Basically they build a subgrade concrete room and form and pour a floor above it which becomes the floor for the normal attached garage. This gives the home a fully concrete room below the garage to use as storage, safe room (think tornadoes), wine cellar, whatever. At first I was leery of the suspended garage floors and their strength but they seem to have all that figured out and it works real well.

Sounds like you are going to have kinda the same deal, only you'll have doors on the end of it to drive your stuff in and out of.

Do they do any geothermal heat pumps out that way or is it all gas or propane forced air heat?