Camper in Garage- help with height please

The fifth wheel is my signature is 13.5" high. Our Lance was 12.5" high. Go 14' if you can and you won't have to worry. We have 10' doors, so the campers don't go in the buildings.

OK, actually farmerjohn's barn is huge. This is pretty big though.

They finished July 2nd. I spent the holiday weekend ripping boards to start the "Wings" as I call them. I had 16 fire treated 2x12x16s from a project that didn't happen. I bought these from another didn't happen project owner 15 years ago for .20 on the dollar. I cut them to the lengths I needed for floor joists, wall studs, and roof rafters and then ripped them to 2x6. This gave me 64 boards. I also had some more 2x12s left over from other finished projects. Repeat cutting. So now I have all the wood cut and stacked for the left side wing that is bigger than originally planned. Left side is 7 wide ( lets me use full 8 foot rafters for a 3/12 pitch roof) by 42 feet long. It goes past the end of the 35 foot wall by 7 feet. This is actually/legally 2 separate 7 foot wide sheds. The front 23 feet is will have a full size door and hold the out of season motorized equipment. It will be a door on front, closed outside wall, open wall to the inside and butt up against the next "shed" which will be 7x18 and completely enclosed for hay and feed. A door on the back side into the alpaca pen for the wife and a door inside facing the sleds for loading hay. I started this 1st wing yesterday and have the floor mostly framed 16"OC. I have to move the alpaca fence back a bit though this weekend to finish the floor. I will post some more pics then. Progress is making me very happy.

This thing is huge. The structure is great, meets 90 mph wind load and 80# snow load requirements. I have some grading to finish on the back and right side though to move ground water away from it and then will have gutters going to the left rear corner to a barrel to use for watering animals after it rains.

So... We had a bit of a misunderstanding getting this thing started. They misunderstood that I actually expected them to meet a time schedule and I misunderstood the whole whenever we get there will be fine attitude. The April call stating May became June (which is when I started this post in anticipation of "Next week". The end of June and I threatened to cancel and sue them. 3 days later the truck pulled in. The crew were very hard workers and did a professional job. The afternoon of day 1 and I went outside to take a look. Hmmmmm... That looks great but it looks a bit on the short side. They had 1/2 of the trusses up and in place when I pulled out the tape measure. Our language barrier made this next conversation a bit difficult. The walls they were putting up were only 8 feet. So once he understood what I meant he called his office, I called the office and they sent new wall posts up over night from PA.

The site before they arrived:




The site with the oh-oh it's too short walls:




The new and improved 12 ft walls and the OSHA would sh-t safety photo (yes they would stand on the top step, walk around the trusses and metal roof in the rain with out any safety gear- at least the orange shirt would make it easy to spot him falling):




They finished with out getting hurt and are gone. My youngest for comparison is 6-3 and 215:




They were gone maybe 10 minutes:

joeshmoe wrote:

rockhillmanor wrote:


My RV never saw the inside of her new garage because of the very slight incline to the door.:(

Say what?? You spent all that money for RV storage only to not have RV storage? I would have marched on down to the local tool rental place and got a jack hammer and gone to work on that concrete apron.

Wouldn't have helped.

The ground was graded up fr building and concrete floor poured inside. The concrete apron was poured for ease of access. So sadly incline still exists.

No one took into account that the actual whole building was graded above the level ground affecting the angle in which to enter. Here to tell ya it was a very slight incline not a glaring incline but enough to keep the ole RV from getting in.

Yes it was a lesson well learned. So I just like pointing it out to anyone building an RV storage building so they can avoid what happened to me.

kjenckes , I see you have thought this out and the time frame as well...I like it! As framerjon said ..taller is better! Good luck.

Kevin. I really like your ideas for your barn. It will be great.The compartments really make it useful. And it will be nice looking.
Jon

We just built a new barn and are putting a slab at one end for the camper to live on. We have 14ft walls which makes the door 12'11".
We didn't grade the site so it also has doors that are 13'6 and the 4th one can be 14'.
The camper used to have to share space in the hay barn. The walls were 12ft and the door was 11ft, with a 10'8" height for camper it was close.



now it is kind of lost in space until we get the slab poured in it's corner of the barn




Taller is better

pjay9- the 25K I referenced is what I had been told for a complete garage done all at once including floor, 4 foot footings, garage, doors, etc based on total square footage. Then the town wants taxes based on the value and SF each year. This is a $6500 metal truss "Carport" as far as the town is concerned because it is open on at least 2 sides and will cost basically nothing on my taxes. I don't mind taxes if I get something back but what I pay now for a volunteer fire department/ambulance, police dept that is not staffed 24/7, and a decent school system is all I want to pay. So.... in the letter of the law if not the spirit of the law here is my garage: 24x31 metal truss as stated. I am NOT enclosing it it with "Sheds" that will give me an additional 6 ft wide x 98 linear feet U shaped storage area. A shed in this area that does not require a building permit and is not taxed is 200sf or less. Therefore "Unattached sheds" butted up against three sides and actually sitting on the carport footings are with in the spirit of the law. Per my building inspector. So picture the 24x31 with a wing down the left side that is 6x31, a wing across the back that is 6 by 36, and a wing down the right side that is also 6x31. These are open to the interior allowing the typical garage storage that eats up most peoples garage floor space. The left wing front half is for snowmobiles and snowblower in the summer (motorcycles, tractor, lawn mower in winter) and the back half for my wife's hay and food for her alpacas. This section will be fully enclosed to keep the dust down. The wing across the back will be tool storage. The right wing rear for reloading and right front for my fishing gear, golf clubs, etc.



Hopefully the picture will show up. This is basically how it will end up looking But the sides will of course be narrower than this pic shows. This will allow me to do this over the summer and fall as money and time allows. I will not owe anything and it will have little cost to me down the road. I also already own 1/2 the wood needed to make my "Unattached sheds". It will have a cement floor but not until next summer. The front wall will be attached and have 2 roll up doors. Each wing will have an entry door and windows (that I also already own) for cross ventilation.

Yes I am being cheap. Yes I refuse to finance this. Yes I will do what I can to keep my already too high taxes from being even higher. (Remember NH doesn't have sales or income tax so they have to soak us on property taxes) But this will be weather tight and provide us with everything we need at a reasonable cost and some sweat equity. Yankee ingenuity at it's best. Very excited to see it hit the ground as we have done a lot of site work and the blasted winter we had delayed it from being stated last fall.

Based on personal experience, your door can never be too big. Within reason, install the largest door that your structure will accept.