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Welcome to the Bus Barn Forum
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I would love to have a Bus Barn. I am lucky enough to be able to have my Bus at my House. But a Bus Barn, that is a whole new level of Fun.
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Engine bay doors …..keep in mind a Prevost “X” has side hinged doors opening, the “H” open out and up.
If you can do 60 feet “inside length”…it’s well worth it.
Small bench or roller tool box with flat work top makes a nice addition.
AL
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So I had my meeting yesterday. It was a great meeting although it appears that my original plan will have to change some. My original plan was to have a pretty high-end both indoor and outdoor kitchen on the ground floor. Along with a small living room, full bath with indoor/outdoor shower, spare bedroom garage with lifts for 2 story car storage (not repairs) and undercover for the coach.
Now it appears that a full indoor kitchen downstairs will not work with the commercial zoning limitations. He is proposing that all residential space is on the second level and car and now “indoor” bus storage is on the ground level. this for sure changes some of the considerations. One will be the potential lack of privacy having the outside living area above the 8ft maximum fence line. Although views of the sunset will be greatly improved.
I will post more specifics as the develop.
Bill III
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I meant to post a pic and link to the doors I’m considering.
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Bill,
I have a 60 x 15 ft one piece hydraulic door in MT. The door is framed in a metal casement and in my opinion to heavy for long term wear. 2 years ago we spent 30k to beef up the header because of the strain it was putting on the rest of the bldg. Also the hydraulic pressure concerned me.
I wouldn’t know anybetter but here at home I have a 50 x 14 ft bifold door that works with the motor and straps. In my opinion the straps out perform the hydraulic door. Maybe because of the bifold vs the one piece door but I will never have another hydraulic door. 50 ft door is going on 14 years, never touched it.
Later
bv
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Thanks BV. I have seen this doors at the Sun n Fun facility in Lakeland, FL. They say and appear to be solely supported from the floor and not from the top. Resembles more of a car lift type setup. The company will have a display at the Sun n Fun fly in a few weeks and I going to speak with them in person then.
I can also say that the company responded to my first email within minutes. Pretty impressive for this day and age. They will even build a small door for our indoor/outdoor bar area:)
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Thanks BV. I have seen this doors at the Sun n Fun facility in Lakeland, FL. They say and appear to be solely supported from the floor and not from the top. Resembles more of a car lift type setup. The company will have a display at the Sun n Fun fly in a few weeks and I going to speak with them in person then.
I can also say that the company responded to my first email within minutes. Pretty impressive for this day and age. They will even build a small door for our indoor/outdoor bar area:)
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Yes mine is the Cam Concept that hangs and the hydraulic pistons push it out with more stress up top.
Looks like you have something better.
Later
bv
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Thanks again for all the great ideas. I’m attaching a copy of the Certified Survey Map for the property and some pictures so you can see what I’m dealing with. We’re Lot 1 of the CSM. You might notice that a lot between our house and the next door neighbor was “split” to give us each a larger lot; the reason behind the “split” is kind of a long story that I won’t bore you with here.
The city of Shawano has a structure sideyard minimum of 6′ (5′ for paved surfaces) which gives me pretty good room for a paved bus site. The limit on the size of “total garage” is 1,200sf. The current garage is 648sf and the boat house is about 240sf which leaves me 312sf for an additional garage stall … 11.5′ wide x the current depth of 27′.
Beyond that to the east there should be ample room for an bus pad and maybe enough room to park the race trailer; if the race car lives here.
The lot line is angled towards our house as we go back toward the river which will narrow up the pad in back. In the picture the fire hydrant in the lower right-hand corner is essentially the lot line at the street and the lot line follows the trees back to the water.
I thought about Jon’s idea of lowering the bus barn to get under the height restriction. It would probably need to drop six to eight feet which doesn’t sound appealing to me and even then I’m limited to only an additional 312sf of garage which isn’t enough room for the coach.
The end result is that the neighbors will get to enjoy a beautiful Liberty Coach as they gaze out their windows rather than having it hidden and I’ll probably end up finding inside storage for the coach when we are going to park it for long periods of time.
Thanks again for the help.
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Dick,
We went thru the same thing here in Wisconsin Rapids.
That’s why municipalities have variances!!! Our house is in a so called sub division and the town of Grand Rapids has a 16 ft peak height and limits a 1200 square ft exterior building as long as your main garage space is under 840 square ft. Another limitation was we bought the land next to us and they said we couldn’t have a building on that property without a house. After a few meetings, we were allowed a few variances and we had to make agreements. Like if we sell, we have to join the 2 properties and sell as one. In the end, I got my building! I made my doors both 16 ft wide!!
Jeff and Lindsay
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Just saw this thread for the first time. Lot size and budget will dictate the size of whatever structure is built, but having built 2 bus barns in the past decade my advice is put in a 16×14 roll up door. Both of mine had somewhat of tight ingress/egress and this allows for that as well as gives you room to sneak other vehicles around a parked bus.
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