Minimum Size To Be Considered 2 Car Garage

[Em Tee]

Hey Maria - we're in the same area and I've done lots with tandem garages. Some were semi-custom homes with a 3 car garage made up of what looks like a regular 2 car garage but once you look inside, there's the extra (tandem) garage behind one of the 2 spaces. Can't tell from the outside though!

 

[Lysander in Charlotte]

My reason for asking was that I measured a 18.7' wide two car garage today. I called it a two car. I did insert a comment that the garage would accomodate two cars but that it is narrower than typical.

 

[Farm Gal]

That should cover it!

Now I KNOW you went out and sought matched pairs to prove it DIDn't have avlaue effect - rright

:rofl:

 

[Terrel L. Shields]

Standard car parking space is 9' x 18-20'

I appraised a house that in driveby would have been labeled 2 car garage, but the garage was only 8' deep and used for storage and lawnmower. Wanted a master bedroom bigger. Wierdo. Went crazy and jumped out of a canoe with rope tied to boat, other end to anchor tied around his leg and committed suicide about a year later.

 

[Ross (CO)]

I think the 20 x 20 is about as minimum as they can logically get, assuming there is the 16' wide roll-up or two singles of min. 8' width. The capacity of the garage is, IMHO, very dependant on the number of spaces directly accessible at a drive-in point of access. Larger structure dimension can be great for storage of their STUFF, and everybody has stuff, but the # of "cars" that you assign the amenity are determined by the drive-in points of access.

The "tandem" garages define this well, for they have extra depth, but they ultimately create only that opportunity to say the garage is "over-sized". One can comfortably have their work-bench or shop area in the back, but day-to-day use for jockeying 3 cars in and out is not reasonable. Every now and then you will find some guy who has his old Corvette or MG Midget under a canvas cover and "stored" in that forward space, but......it's still storage. If the subject has "tandem" then seek comps with the same.

Very common today to find the stand-alone 3rd space having a roll-up with at least 1 ft. more clearance to compensate the new SUV heights. Note that height aspect too, and then wonder how it is that some who buy older homes end up having to leave their monster vehicles parked outside all the time.....garage not deep enough and doorway not high enough. Oooops, we forgot that factor when we looked at the home before we bought it. Fell in love with the updated kitchen but never thought much about the garage.

 

[Tina]

I really gripes me....we have 600 SF attached garage 20' wide x 30' deep and I can't park the car in it, I can't even attempt to put cooler in it as Jack squalls "encroachment"; this is "his" sacred space/shop....so, basically I have a 600 SF no car garage (well the race car that's ungoing renov gets to live there).

Go figure????

TB





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[CANative]

Does anyone make an adjustment one way or the other for a 3 car typical garage and a "3 car" tandem garage. I cant seem to collect enough data to make an adjustment which may indicate that the market doesn't discern. Garage space is garage space and is useful for storing cars or junk. No one can have too much storage space.

 

[Jim Hill]

One of the best garages I have seen was 24,500 sf and was completly finished off inside and it had A/C

This garage was used for the owners car collection which number over 125 cars and about 30 or 50 motorcycles.

There were also many other neat items like a complete old time barber shop with the wood cabinets and old time chairs all set up.

The value of the car collection was between 12 and 14 million dollars and the entire building had an alarm system.

I had never seen a garage this big and I don't know if I ever will again.

The main home was next door to the garage and it was around 18,000 sg

This home and garage were both build within the past five years.

One other interesting point the owners wanted to build their dream home on a lake but could not find the right spot for the home so instead they had a 2 acre lake build behind the home with a stream that runs around the entire property with the water being pumped from a pumping station.

It must be nice to be rich.

J. Hill

 

[Lysander in Charlotte]

Tina, I once read a humorous article in which the author made the point that America is the only place in the world where $50,000 worh of automobiles are parked in the driveway so that $500 worth of stuff could occupy the garage. We've all seen it.

 

[Walter Kirk]

My sister's house in Las Vegas has a six car garage, a normal two gar garage as well as an extra deep (almost 40') two gar garage. The house doesn't have a basement and the rear of the second garage is storage and shop space. The previous owner stabled his horse there. I thout that the arrangement was strange but most of the houses in the neighborhood have similar garages.

I have a 17x20 one car garage that my two sports cars fit verry well in.