I've had it with my garage and now that the main part of my house remodeling is done, I'm moving ahead with plans for the garage. I want to put a car lift in there so I can double deck Murphy and Trouble. That will give me loads of working room and also room for a new Mustang when the urge strikes me, which won't be long now.
The problem is that the garage has a finished ceiling, so I don't know how much space actually is available once it's ripped out. Fortunately, my cousin is an architect and he's coming over this weekend to assess the situation and come up with plans for a couple of other things I want to do outside (extend porch roof for shade over driveway, create trailer parking spot next to house).
I have two questions to help me out with this. First, what brand of four-post lift would you recommend? I don't want a moveable one because I have nowhere to move it to. Second, how thick a concrete pad is needed beneath it? I'm assuming that the garage floor will have to be broken up and repoured to support the lift.
I'm trying to minimize the work needed, so I'm hoping I can just redo the floor and ceiling where the lift goes and not the whole garage, although it does need a drainage problem fixed.
The problem is that the garage has a finished ceiling, so I don't know how much space actually is available once it's ripped out. Fortunately, my cousin is an architect and he's coming over this weekend to assess the situation and come up with plans for a couple of other things I want to do outside (extend porch roof for shade over driveway, create trailer parking spot next to house).
I have two questions to help me out with this. First, what brand of four-post lift would you recommend? I don't want a moveable one because I have nowhere to move it to. Second, how thick a concrete pad is needed beneath it? I'm assuming that the garage floor will have to be broken up and repoured to support the lift.
I'm trying to minimize the work needed, so I'm hoping I can just redo the floor and ceiling where the lift goes and not the whole garage, although it does need a drainage problem fixed.