Shop Sizes/prices?

[hatersaurusrex]

Well I finally got a long-awaited promotion at work, and I'm 100% sure to be moving back to Nashville in the next few months.   Now I get to make the fun choice of build vs. buy a home, and I wanted to get some feedback from you guys.   I want a detached garage/shop with at least two bays, one of which that's tall enough to put a car lift in.    Anyone have any dimensions/reccomendations?   Any of you guys who have built one, can you give me an idea of out-the-door cost for a shop (not counting lift, tools, etc) but just the structure?  I'm getting my loan put together and want to figure how much on top a shop will wind up costing me.

Would any of you awesome gentlemen be kind enough to give me some pointers?

[Cooter]

Whatever you have in your head for the Garage/shop size? Triple it....NEVEr settle for "What you can get right now and have to buy" when it comes to a shop. You will be regretting it later on.

I reccomend as large as you can afford. Minimum size woulod be around 30X60 IMO...

[Charger-Bodie]

I put one up last year. 30x40 with cathedral ceiling and 14 ft sidewalls. Insulated and all cost was about 40k.

[Bob]

In 2006 I built a 24 x 44 x 10 pole building, 3 bay and a work area for 8.9k. The 8" concrete floor cost another 2.2k. Installed a lift for 600 bucks.
Shop around, most companies use the same materials if you go with a pole building. For a lift a comfortable 12 foot ceiling is recommended.

Bob

[twodko]

First, congrats on your promotion. 

The guys all have real world shop sizes in mind. Cooterman speaks the gospel. With this said, enjoy the benes of you new income but be cautious you don't bit into any loan that will over extend yourself.
Just my opinion but better a smaller shop than a monthly money struggle.

[John_Kunkel]

-Rule #1 when building a shop:

If you can afford it, it's too small.

-Rule #2 regarding shops:

The amount of junk you accumulate will grow proportionally to outgrow the size of the shop.

[Tilar]

34X64, Just a little over 40k to do this.

http://www.dodgecharger.com/forum/index.php/topic,5863.msg662774.html#msg662774

[NHCharger]

Cooter is right. This is definitely one case where bigger is better. Mine is 30x88 and I now wish I went 100 on the length. Cost is kind of relative to where you live. I have 5' frost walls which you wouldn't need in Nashville. My garage/shop cost me 40k to build back in 2003-2005. I'm a contractor and built it myself except for concrete.

[chargerboy69]

When I looked into building one I checked out one of Menards kits.  They come with everything but the concrete floor.

I now lease nearly 20,000 sqft building for my business and sectioned part of that off for personal use so no garage went up.  If I remember correctly I was going to be around $18,000.00 on a 26X40 pole building.

http://www.menards.com/main/building-materials/post-frame-materials/post-frames/c-9901.htm

http://www.menards.com/main/project-center/garages/c-9891.htm

[hatersaurusrex]

Saaaaave big money at Menaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaards

[garner7555]

I built a 30' x 50' with 14' ceilings for about 10k. That includes concrete inside and outside the doors. I also put one 12' x 12' door and two 10' x 14' doors. I did most of the work myself though and got good deals on materials.