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(Mike Reed) wrote in message . com...
(David Hall) wrote in message . com...
(Mike Reed) wrote in message . com...

Heck, even best case senerio I could only get two cars in the garage.
With my truck, my wife's van, my son's car and my daughters car, all I
would accomplish is hiding two of them.

Yeah, our kids are 2 right now, so I expect to have my priorities
shift in the coming years...

Then I would never get them
out because the remaining two would be blocking them in. I have a nice
concrete two lane driveway that could easily hold 8 or more cars.

I don't see how keeping 4 in the driveway is any easier to manage than
2 in the garage and 2 in the driveway. The back two are still the
first out

Depends on how you line them up and stagger them (ya get kinda
scientific about it after so many times getting up on a cold morning
and having to shuffle 3 cars to get out of the driveway). Also, since
the garage is 90 degrees to the driveway, there has to be "backing
out" room left in the driveway.

Lastly as I said earlier it is seldom sunny in Pittsburgh
so UV isn't a concern

That's a myth. Clouds block a lot of IR radiation, but not much of the
UV, depending on the type of cloud. Most of the time they just scatter
the UV. You can get a bad sunburn in cloudy weather, but most people
are covered up since the blocked IR makes it cooler.

-Mike

I have been in Arizon and the hottest, sunniest day in August in
Pittsburgh does not have the solar intensity of a cloudy day in March
in Phoenix. I can't remember the last time I saw someone put one of
those cardboard sun reflectors on their dashboard in Pittsburgh - I
never have - but I have never seen seriously cracked or faded dashes
on cars under 10 years old here either. That just ain't the case in
AZ. So, I guess I might house my car if I lived in AZ or at least add
a carport to the driveway.