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Any gotchas to consider?
Don’t get a roof mounted bike rack.
If the ‘shelf’ is the width and length of the garage - you’ll lose/forget/be unable to retrieve items up there. Maybe 3 sections of shelf - or trap doors?
Keep the cost and thickness of the joists/frames for the shelves down by making your own flitch beams using thin steel plate and CLS or ply. Unless the garages are really tall you’ll be grateful of the extra inch or two (😶)
absurdbird
I'm entering into negotiations to purchase two garages, to replace my current single garage.
The plan is to put the car in one and bikes and so on in the other one.
At the moment I have two "Bigdug" racking/shelving units in the garage, one along the rear wall and one along the side wall - this makes parking the car in there a very precise and somewhat nerve-wracking exercise. Keeping the new garage free of this type of shelving is a key priority.
However, the car is very low and the garage is fairly tall - there's lots of room above the car, which I'd like to use. I was thinking of a very large shelf that I'd park the car underneath, essentially - that would come out around 2m. Has anyone done anything similar? Any gotchas to consider?
Also, what epoxy floor paint have people used successfully?