Posted: 9/18/2010 5:18:36 PM EDT
I have a 1200 sq. ft. building in my back yard; one side of it has a loft. The place is great for working on cars and such. For whatever reason, the builder put a garage door on the front of it where the yard slopes up so every time I bring something in or out to work on, it bottoms out on the floor of the building. This is going to be very bad for what I want to build. Additionally, putting a door on the side will allow me more options to move and organize things. Basically, I'm wanting to store / restore one car under the loft (behind where I am standing to take the pics below.) on one side, start work on another one next to car #1, and still be able to get in and have storage for the occasional oil change, brake job, etc and be able to get to yard equipment. I'd like to put a garage door on the side wall (the yard is flat out there) but don't know if I can. I guess I'd just be able to cut away the aluminum (?) between the beams, maybe drop some angle iron or something down from the ceiling to support the tracks and be done with it .... right? Seems too simple, what am I missing? Also is there an inexpensive way to insulate this thing a little bit. The furnace that's in there is only effective down to about 40* or so due to lack of insulation. Yea, it's a mess .... 40 years of junk in there.
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