On Feb 15, 9:40 pm, "Edwin Pawlowski" wrote:
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Can someone tell me what it may cost to have a garage moved back about
10 feet? We bought a new house last March and the builder at first
assured us that it was code to build the garage 10 feet from the house
but he was going to give us 12 feet. We felt really uncomfortable and
had a lot of time to play around with his 12 feet and could see it was
just too close to the house due to the way the house is situated. We
talked him into 16 feet and he had it done that way for us. He was so
very slow that we only finally had finalized everything buying the lot
next door in 9 months after we first signed for the house. But that
16 feet was close enough that after the final inspection was done on
the house my husband cut the corner off the back porch to give us more
room to back the car out. It still feels too close and I only backed
the car out one time, and didn't pull the car in until the corner of
the porch was removed.

I can't visualize what path you have that moving the garage back will give
you more room. Do you have to turn coming out of the garage? Are you
afraid to drive 16 feet along the house? Is there a pathway that you can
turn the drive around and move the door to the other end of the garage
instead of moving it? I'd bet the cost of moving it will be $10k or more.
It is not a matter of just pouring a slab, but putting in some footers too.

After talking to my husband after rereading this you may have given us
an idea that we can work on, if there is enough room. We own the lot
next door to us, the builder just told us not to put any structure on
it to keep our taxes down. But thinking of what you said we will look
tomorrow to see if we have enough clearance to back the car out across
that lot and pull it forward back to the drive. It may and may not
work. We just put up a fence that is heavier than chicken wire, but
not as heavy as cyclone, with a cyclone gate attached to the house.
We have the dog, but someday we may not have one. The fence can
easily be moved if this will work, thanks for helping us to figure it
out. We moved back here from a rural area on the other side of
Michigan and for 14 years we had a barn doors room to pull our cars in
and out since we had a pole building with a turn around like you
brought up.

We thought of moving the door to the side of the garage also, but that
would take more pavement to be added, the ground here is heavy clay,
fine if it is dry but a disaster if it is wet. But that is still an
option we can work on.