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Build Your Own Garage Manual: More Than 175 Plans: Step-By-Step Instructions (Creative Homeowner) Techniques, Tips, Diagrams, and More for DIY Building, plus a Catalog of Available Plans

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Build the garage of your dreams!

  • How-to advice for building a garage, doing all or part of the work yourself
  • Techniques and tips for everything from planning a driveway, preparing the foundation, and pouring concrete to installing roof shingles, siding, and doors
  • Storage ideas, helpful charts, diagrams, and illustrations, fastener types, lumber sizes, leveling, framing, and more
  • Catalog of 175 plans prepared by experts and for order, for those who prefer not to draw up their own plans

Planning and constructing a handsome new garage may seem like a daunting task, but you can make it a reality by following the instructions in this essential do-it-yourself guide!

Build Your Own Garage Manual graphically demonstrates the latest in garage construction techniques and illustrates every step of the construction process in detail. This 144-page book is split into two sections: In the first 46 pages, you'll find all the techniques and tips you'll need to build your own garage. Learn how to plan, choose a size, decide on your layout, pour concrete footing, cast a concrete wall, create turned-down monolithic slabs, decide on doors and windows, raise the walls, raise the roof, erect a hip roof, and more. A full glossary of terms is included.

The rest of the pages feature more than 175 terrific plans prepared by garage experts. Drawing up your own plan from scratch may be challenging for the inexperienced builder. You can make planning and cost estimating easier by selecting one of these plans available for purchase from Design America, Inc. Easy-to-follow construction blueprints and materials lists are available for each plan to ensure success!

The featured plans include 1-car, 2-car, 3-car, and 4-car garages, carports, and garages with apartments, covered porches, studios, lofts, workshops, RV storage, greenhouses, and more desirable features. A range of styles is represented, including brick, with a gambrel roof, country style, European style, western style, Craftsman style, Victorian, with a cupola, with dormers, oversized, and more.

You can have the garage of your dreams, whether you make your own plans or purchase a professionally designed plan, with all the helpful information inside Build Your Own Garage Manual!

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This essential DIY guide shows how to build the garage of your dreams by doing all or part of the work yourself. Choose from more than 175 construction plans, prepared by garage experts.

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BUILD THE GARAGE OF YOUR DREAMS

Build the garage of your dreams by doing all or part of the work yourself. Planning and constructing a handsome new garage may seem like a daunting task, but you can make it a reality by following the instructions in this essential do-it-yourself guide.

All of the techniques and tips you’ll need are inside.
Build Your Own Garage Manual graphically demonstrates the latest in garage construction techniques, and illustrates every step of the construction process in detail.

Because drawing up your own plan from scratch may be challenging for the inexperienced builder, make planning and cost estimating easier by selecting from more than 175 terrific plans, prepared by garage experts. Easy-to-follow construction blueprints are available for each project to ensure success.

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3.4 out of 5

67.69% of customers are satisfied

5.0 out of 5 stars So creative!

N. · December 29, 2023

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4.0 out of 5 stars It’s ok

j.i.s. · August 21, 2024

The book is good with a lot of illustrations but all the garage examples look like little houses instead of garages/ shops.

5.0 out of 5 stars Detailed info, lots of ideas.

M. · August 6, 2020

Item came as advertised and on time.

3.0 out of 5 stars It's ok but should be called a brochure

M.h. · January 27, 2023

I was expecting garage plans since it claims 175 are inside. In fact there are 0 garage plans inside. Only pictures and the cost of the plans from an external site which could just be Google and save the money buying the book. The 1st 1/4 of the book is informative and good. Just slightly misleading.

5.0 out of 5 stars Looks good

a.t. · December 6, 2018

Lots of info and plans

1.0 out of 5 stars Basically a Brochure

N. · October 23, 2024

This book is completely misleading. It's a very cursory overview of garages and offers only about 40 pages of actual information, all of which is only helpful if you don't know what a garage is. The rest of the book is just plans which you can view online for free.

4.0 out of 5 stars Informative

B.H. · October 6, 2024

The book is alright, for me I found YouTube to be a better option as you can watch what's being done. Some people like to read, which is fine. But I am more hands on. Overall a good purchase

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad

J.G. · June 26, 2024

Not a bad start, but a lot garbage plan but every blueprint will be an extra charge

Great read

N.L. · July 8, 2024

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Not a building manual.

M. · March 11, 2021

Just over 40 pages of general DIY notes on carpentry and pouring a concrete slab. However, you won't be using this book as a guide to build anything. Most of the book (over 100 pages) is actually a catalogue for the company's building plans. It's also exclusively about timber framing, so no information at all on block work, insulation, or anything else. If you're living anywhere other than the United States, and actually plan to roll up your sleeves and build a garage with your own hands, this is NOT for you.

Don’t bother!

G. · July 29, 2021

This book has some tips in it and is essentially an advertising vehicle to try and sell you garage plans, there are not loads of plans in the book just pictures and ways to buy the plans.Given 2 stars only because it might be useful to beginners.

Good info

C. · June 19, 2024

Good to understand

Total waste of money!

M.G. · August 20, 2021

Really feel duped as I have just paid for a company catalogue! All the plans it shows are available to purchase - at over $400 per pdf. Don't waste your time and money on it.

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