Finished space under garage
thisishishouse
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Comments (6)nostalgic, thank you for thinking of our home. I'm sorry if I'm confused and/or have been confusing. We have no livable space under any of our garages. We looked into it at one point and found it very expensive as you need all this support to hold up the cars and such above. We have the 2 car at main level which is unexcavated underneath. Then we have the one car at basement level which is a walk out basement as we built into a southern facing slope. We do love having the separate garages though as the main level one is for our cars, convenient for bringing in groceries and such. The lower level one is great as it includes DH's workshop. The french port door keeps the space well lit during the day and it has a heater so is a great spot for him to work on tractors and such. But most importantly, from a look point of view, the smaller garage doesn't overwhelm the house...so many houses are dwarfed by the size of their garage and we didn't want that. So separating them keeps the proportions of our fairly small home well balanced. Maybe some pics will help explain it better...and I linked to a thread which includes the floorplan of our house. Front facade with 2 car garage on left, unexcavated underneath. (No living space upstairs either...that's all attic where the dormers are.) On the west side, you can see that it is built into a hill with the one car garage (behind the french port doors) underneath...no driveway. From the rear, you can see the 2 stories of the home....the basement level, and then the main level above. The deck is behind the garage, nothing underneath as we didn't want the deck shading any of the lower level rooms...makes them feel too much like basement. The basement starts where the left side of the deck ends. Here is a link that might be useful: Inspiration to reality...See MoreHow to insulate garage ceiling under finished bonus room
Comments (44)I posted before about using tigerfoam. I used in in my addition. My garage ceiling was sheetrocked by my builder, and I'm sure he did the least he could get away with. Part of my bedroom is over the garage. I'm thinking that they didn't used to build living space over garages before. Now we all see why. If someone could figure out how to retrofit insulation onto a sheetrocked garage ceiling, that would be great. For stockrex, you don't have to fill the entire space for the Tigerfoam to be effective. Just a few inches will probably stop the air leaks. Then, you can fill the rest with the same batting that you take out, if it's clean. I think that it's best to figure out where the airleaks are coming from first. My powder room shares a wall with my garage. It was always cold before we renovated, but now it's freezing. When I had a wall mount sink installed, I decided to have an access panel behind it in the garage. Cold air was flowing in through the electric plug. I sealed that. It's better, but the walls are still very cold....See MoreTuck-under Garage Repairs & Improvements?
Comments (1)Both the homes in the photo below were built in the '60s with basement garages similar to what you're describing. Subsequent owners wisely replaced them with front yard parking....See More1930s Tuck-under Garage?
Comments (4)What did you end up doing? I am faced with the same dilemma right now myself. I never park in the garage because of the narrow/steep driveway and the difficulty of backing up out of the garage without hitting the retaining wall. Retaining wall is also crumbling. And rain/snow also directed into a garage drain......See Moremaj1k
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