Fitting a 240 inside a garage with two separate 8x7 doors ......

[Betik]

We build a house and moved in August of 2018. Despite me offering over $20K to the builder to raise the garage they refused, so I was left with the situation you are seeing on the pictures. In March of 2019 I summited all necessary paperwork to remodel the front of an 8 month old house. As results by early May I could back up my boat with the truck and we are now in position to leave the house within 10 minutes of the Admiral saying, " let's go". Most importantly, when we come back I back in the boat and we don't have to clean anything until the next day or whenever we feel like.

A couple of interesting facts.......

• The garage door (18x8) was about $5,000
• The rest of the materials were about $2,000
• Sold the old ( less than 1 year old) garage doors for $500 each and used that money to put insulation on the garage.
• insulated garage is awesome. I can work on the boat during winter and even during the summer without sweating like a dog. And this garage faces west.....

Since a picture is worth a thousand words I will let the pictures speak for themselves. If you are reading this and thinking about doing something similar please feel free to ask anything that you think I might be able to help.......



Note: special thanks to jetboater staff @Scottintexas whose trailer made moving 20x1.5 feet laminated lumber movement a breeze.

 

[Betik]

A couple more right before I cut off the center post and laid brick for the very first time in my life

 

[InmyElement]

Thats awesome...good for you tackling and doing it! Very inspiring. Beautiful Home! And you drive a Ford

 

[2kwik4u]

What's going to happen with that "bump out" of an eve over the right side? Just going to leave the roofline like that and have a big eave over that side? That brickwork looked amazing, are you going to put that back in the same style or go with something a little easier since it appears you're DIY'ing this renovation?

I totally get this thinking as well. If I increased the opening size on my garage I could fit a 212X in there. I have the length, ceiling height, and width, just not the opening size. There's almost 4ft additional height I can use above my garage door now!


my brickwork out front isn't NEARLY as ornate as yours was either. Just one soldier row to remove and replace higher up.

 

[Betik]

.... you drive a Ford

what else there ??? LOL

 

[Kalg]

What's going to happen with that "bump out" of an eve over the right side? Just going to leave the roofline like that and have a big eave over that side? That brickwork looked amazing, are you going to put that back in the same style or go with something a little easier since it appears you're DIY'ing this renovation?

I totally get this thinking as well. If I increased the opening size on my garage I could fit a 212X in there. I have the length, ceiling height, and width, just not the opening size. There's almost 4ft additional height I can use above my garage door now!
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my brickwork out front isn't NEARLY as ornate as yours was either. Just one soldier row to remove and replace higher up.
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Hi,
I see your boat is AR190. It should fit in a 7ft garage opening. See the below trailer Mod to see if this helps to fit your boat into 7ft garage opening. Thank you.

https://jetboaters.net/threads/storing-21ft-yamaha-jet-boat-sx210-ar210-etc-into-a-7ft-garage-opening.34207/

 

[Betik]

What's going to happen with that "bump out" of an eve over the right side? Just going to leave the roofline like that and have a big eave over that side? That brickwork looked amazing, are you going to put that back in the same style or go with something a little easier since it appears you're DIY'ing this renovation?
I totally get this thinking as well. If I increased the opening size on my garage I could fit a 212X in there. I have the length, ceiling height, and width, just not the opening size. There's almost 4ft additional height I can use above my garage door now!

my brickwork out front isn't NEARLY as ornate as yours was either. Just one soldier row to remove and replace higher up.

Nothing fancy at all just put bring on top of each either. I left the eave hung there. It is reinforced from inside, so it is not going anywhere.

You need to be careful with your brick because there is a LOT of weight, you will have to support. Unless you take everything out and redo it. Brick is cheap but a lot of work. and it is messy work.