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**waynieZ** · #1 09-13-2009, 07:24 PM

I was just talking to my wife about when the car gets back home from MCC. Talking about getting a Storage room to keep it in for now. So she starts giving me crap! Tells me I better build a garage so I have somewhere to keep it. I Love This Woman !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was going to build one last year but the way everything got I was worried . The house is almost ours and I didn't want to take a chance. For people who believe in reincarnation I must have been a real nice guy in my last life to be lucky enough to have found her.

Now for my question I have a cape cod style house I have no room in the back or on either side to put a garage . My lot is very small The house sits back a bout 50' from the street I wanted to put it near the street but they have a 20' setback, it would put it in the middle of the yard. They won't give vareance's because our neighbooor hood association . The head of it lives across the street from me and she already said they wouldn't go for it. What a pain in the a-s she is!
I was thinking of attaching it to the front of the house I have two 7' bay windows in the front . My wife said take the one from the dining room and attch it there It could be 16' w x 24' or 28' deep or deeper . I would like it wider but it would stick out from the side of the house and I don't want to ruin the value . Anyone do building or realestate that could give me an opinion on my ideas or a guess of the cost to build? Anyone know the price of concrete in Ma area ? I 've been out of the buisness for a few years.
Anyone do sips panels ?? Thanks Wayne

GMracer · #2 09-14-2009, 06:58 AM

Can you get some pictures up and I can give it a whirl? I'm in the construction business and even though I don't do many additions I'm will to help out if you need. Price wish I really couldn't "estimate" I think the 3 sided 1 car garage on my house was near 20k. 16x24 red cedar siding.

**GregWeld** · #3 09-14-2009, 07:25 AM

Wayne --

You can do like I did - sold my house with a 4 car garage - moved a mile away to a property with an acre and a quarter.... we traded a home on Lake Washington (Yarrow Point) for a house on a flat, no view lot... My wife said - "well, if you put in a pool... I'd do it". DONE!

I built a separate driveway (house is on a corner) and put in a 30 X 50 shop with hidden trailer parking... I've died and gone to heaven.

OH --- I forgot.... you asked about "cost" -- and I'm not bragging here -- just trying to be a little funny. My wife didn't really want to "see" the shop -- so we excavated the entire area - including the long driveway (so it wouldn't be steep) down 7 FEET... that was an excavator and three dump trucks running - being filled - and bringing back gravel etc... for DAYS AND DAYS... but she got what she wanted! Cost of just the dirt removal - $180,000 -- don't even ask what the total price ended up being. LOL

**tones2SS** · #4 09-14-2009, 11:55 AM

Hey Wayne. Your wife is cool!!! lol

I forget exactly what the measurements are for garage specs and how far away you have to be from the next door neighbor's property. When I was looking for homes,(when I had a job!!), I was asking about that when I saw homes without a garage. I told my realtor, OH, I HAVE to have a garage!! lol
I can put you in touch with her if you want to pm me. She works out of North Attleboro, Foxboro, Walpole, and so forth, but she knows the codes!!

96z28ss · #5 09-14-2009, 12:08 PM

I'd put the house up for sale and look at getting a house with garage.
And get a house with no home owners assocciation

awesometool · #6 09-14-2009, 01:15 PM

wayne this is exactly the type of work my company does so pm your phone number and I can help you out.

**waynieZ** · #7 09-14-2009, 01:22 PM

Thank you everyone for the replies.
Its not really a home owners association . I live in the middle of the city there are all tenement house in my neighborhood . This is the neighborhood my wife grew up in. We built the house 19 years ago on a lot next door to my inlaws. They knew this woman sence the early 50's .When we built the house she would have fought it if I wanted a two family house. I told her I was thinking of the garage near the street and she said They wouldn't give me a variance for it. So I couldn't help my self I told her I could connect it to the house with just a building permit . She looked surprised so I added to the fire and said or I can buy one of those shipping containers and put it in the front of the house because that is mobile so its legal . Her face dropped

I was a construction laborer for 35 years but I'm so beat up now I can't do much of the heavy stuff anymore. Even if I just made it weather tight and did the rest inside myself later.

GMracer · #8 09-14-2009, 02:27 PM

Well I'm slightly younger

and work for a fair rate, so let me know.

**waynieZ** · #9 09-14-2009, 07:47 PM

Greg you shop is half the size of my whole lot , plus my house is almost in the middle of the lot.
Thanks Nick..

**GregWeld** · #10 09-14-2009, 09:01 PM

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Originally Posted by waynieZ

Greg you shop is half the size of my whole lot , plus my house is almost in the middle of the lot.
Thanks Nick..

Nick -- I was just trying to be a bit funny -- since your post was very explanatory about what you had to work with etc... :>)

I see someone else chimed in there and said to just move... and sometimes that is what it takes. My house had a big slope down with the uphill guy having a pool in what would be his "back yard" -- but was between our houses - me being the downhill guy... the retaining wall alone would have been half what I was planing to spend on the project. The city was busting my chops about the total covered area of the property etc. It just wasn't worth the hassle so we moved. Lucky my wife was willing to do that...

I used to take some of my welding and grinding stuff outside in the front of our old garage... and at first the neighbors weren't to happy with that... (not bragging here or anything like that - but the neighborhood is pretty upscale)... but then they discovered I could FIX THINGS -- and then I was an okay guy!! LOL Really was funny though! I was okay then...