Cost for free standing 2 car garage

[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

[Tony_SS]

I think I paid around $16-17k to have mine done. I forget the dimensions..









I was one happy camper when it was done. I built the workbench in 20º weather.

And it's what sold our house the first day on the market too.

[GregWeld]

Unless you're Charley Lillard and can buy the TajMahal..... no matter how big you build your "shed" it'll end up looking like this!!

[96z28ss]

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.

Do you live in the US?
I built this shed in my back yard its 10x10. Just building materials alone if I was going 25x25 it wouldn't be anywhere near 10k.

[ricer]

Originally Posted by 96z28ss

Do you live in the US?
I built this shed in my back yard its 10x10. Just building materials alone if I was going 25x25 it wouldn't be anywhere near 10k.

it was NJ. Like i said we had 6-7K into it and i am sure insulation/sheetrock wouldn't be that much if doing it yourself to the extra <$3K i added was obviously over estimated. That included vinyl siding as well so to me that was a good deal.

Originally Posted by Sparks67

Hmmm, I think you forgot to add the concrete foundation to that cost.

Jeff

nope, that included the full perimeter foundation base in 16x8 pour, cinderblock walls up to grade, and a 4-5" pad. If i remember right all the concrete was less than a grand. Want to say it was 9-10 yrds at seventy something per yard...concrete place was about 2-3 miles down the road