Apologies for the crude drawing. Looking for y'all to poke holes in this plan, and give me an idea of costs.
We currently have a 2 car garage that faces the back of the property. We're on a corner so the driveway is on the side of the house. You enter the drive and turn 90 degrees left into the garage.
We're considering adding a 3 car garage, attached to the current garage, but where the doors now face the street. and you drive straight in.
Current garage would then be split up into and office and a workout space. Would also like to the new garage to be two stories, with a large media room in it. The house one story everywhere else. There are several challenges I see with this, and probably many y'all will see that I don't.
1. the red line on the pic is aerial electrical line to the house. Breaker is currently in the garage. Would the service/meter need to be moved to the far corner of the new garage? If so, would the breaker box need to move with it, or could the meter be placed on the corner and a line running along the house(or through the walls?) to the panel?
2. The brown line in pic is gas coming to the house. It's buried under the driveway. New slab would be very close to this line. I don't know if that's a big deal or not. I'm assuming concrete guys no how to deal with this.
3. Adding HVAC. Getting this to the existing garage doesn't seem like a huge problem. The attic above the garage is open all the way to our HVAC unit, so that doesn't see hard, and I suspect my unit will currently handle the extra space. The house is 2700sqft now, adding the garage conversion would take us to ~3200. The bigger concern for me is the 2nd story above the new garage, which would be an additional 600-700 sqft, and not easily tie into the existing HVAC.
Currently we don't plan to add any plumbing to any of this. Mostly to save money, but that does seem like one of things you regret later on. But in my mind this is fairly simple. need a new slab for the addition and there will be some concrete work to tie into the current garage as well. Get power and HVAC, but no plumbing work, no trying to tie into sewage, or water supply. Mostly concrete, framing, roofing, electric, and finish out.
This side of the house would be well served by another half bath, but it's not critical. We currently have 3 full baths. I suppose it would all come down to how much extra that would be. I have no idea where we tie into the sewer line. I know our water meter is on the complete opposite side of the lot.
We currently have a 2 car garage that faces the back of the property. We're on a corner so the driveway is on the side of the house. You enter the drive and turn 90 degrees left into the garage.
We're considering adding a 3 car garage, attached to the current garage, but where the doors now face the street. and you drive straight in.
Current garage would then be split up into and office and a workout space. Would also like to the new garage to be two stories, with a large media room in it. The house one story everywhere else. There are several challenges I see with this, and probably many y'all will see that I don't.
1. the red line on the pic is aerial electrical line to the house. Breaker is currently in the garage. Would the service/meter need to be moved to the far corner of the new garage? If so, would the breaker box need to move with it, or could the meter be placed on the corner and a line running along the house(or through the walls?) to the panel?
2. The brown line in pic is gas coming to the house. It's buried under the driveway. New slab would be very close to this line. I don't know if that's a big deal or not. I'm assuming concrete guys no how to deal with this.
3. Adding HVAC. Getting this to the existing garage doesn't seem like a huge problem. The attic above the garage is open all the way to our HVAC unit, so that doesn't see hard, and I suspect my unit will currently handle the extra space. The house is 2700sqft now, adding the garage conversion would take us to ~3200. The bigger concern for me is the 2nd story above the new garage, which would be an additional 600-700 sqft, and not easily tie into the existing HVAC.
Currently we don't plan to add any plumbing to any of this. Mostly to save money, but that does seem like one of things you regret later on. But in my mind this is fairly simple. need a new slab for the addition and there will be some concrete work to tie into the current garage as well. Get power and HVAC, but no plumbing work, no trying to tie into sewage, or water supply. Mostly concrete, framing, roofing, electric, and finish out.
This side of the house would be well served by another half bath, but it's not critical. We currently have 3 full baths. I suppose it would all come down to how much extra that would be. I have no idea where we tie into the sewer line. I know our water meter is on the complete opposite side of the lot.
