Building a house with a two car garage, and trying to get a feel for driveway layouts. When you come up the driveway, garage doors will be on your right, so you will have to do a 90 deg turn into the garage. My feeling is that the driveway should be a T shape, so that you have room to turn around and back into or out of the garage. Which orientation would it make sense to have the T in, straight ahead of the driveway, or opposite the garage doors? (As in A or B in the attached drawing) How much “offset” from the garage should I put the driveway? (X in the drawing)
Advice?
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Aor B is either way - how you like it and it fits the terrain.
X is absolute minimum of 18' but thirty is better.
Cairo--
If driveway is in Egypt, please disregard. If in the snowbelt, truck or snowblower?
Regards,
Rework
Oh, definitely snowbelt. Driveway will be plowed for sure, I'm not that enamored of shovelling when it's -25.
Cairo:
The area dimensioned by the 'x' is going to be the hardest to plow. Look at where the snow can be piled, and you might want to either decrease 'x' or increase 'y'(the other dimension to that area)....
Regards,
Rework
The last house I did had a similar endloading garage / driveway arrangement.
We canted the "T" portion at a 45 (between your A and B). This way the turn to back in or out of the garage was much easier.
Terry
Off the topic but how do you get drawings converted to jpg?
-Peter
Yes, it's the X dimension that is the one that I'm trying to figure out. May have to hit a parking lot with chalk and tape. Or just snoop around the neighbors seeing what works. In the snowbelt, I figure A is the better location for the branch of the T. Last place we lived in had a garage at the end of the driveway (A on that sketch), with a fence down the left side of the driveway, and the house on the right. Poor schmuck with the plow had to drag the snow back about 30 feet from the garage in order to push it over to the lawn.
My drawing was thrown together in visio, and it has an option of "save as" many formats, including jpg as well as dxf and about two dozen others. typically in the save as command, not only can you specify the name, but also different formats.
I like B.That means that you don't have to turn the car as you back in or out of the garage.
X can be zero. It depends on how wide the drive is and how deep A or B is.
I think that FHB had a article on this about a year or 2 ago.