w/out basements, where do you store all your cra... uh... stuff?

[10scoachrick]

Originally Posted by HMS Pinafore

Hey 10scoach:

We're just a few miles up in Alpharetta. We've been house shopping this week (spring break) and found a beautiful home in Falcon Head. It had a nice pool, veranda style back porch, and backs to the Golf course for a great view! It had a 3rd car garage so I quickly rationalized that for all this, we could live without a basement! Besides we have too much junk anyway {:-). After much discussion the best value for us at this time in our lives was to make an offer on a basement home in the Ridge. Yes the additional unfinished 2K sqft of open space just begging to become a workshop, studio, etc. won out! We should be moved to Austin in July.

Holy macanoli! I wish we could find a basement way up north in Avery Ranch. We found 'our' house in Feb. and it's still available. Boy, I would trade one of those bedrooms/media room/game room for a workshop in a flash! The house does have a third car bay but it's connected 'three-wide' rather than a separate bay(that would be perfect, I think). I envy your available fun space--I look forward to starting with a clean slate, shopwise. Of course, with a new house, I don't expect quite as many projects as I had in our 1950s Sandy Springs rancher.

[HappyTexan]

Originally Posted by Driftwood1

Also bear in mind we've heard that if you're garage is so full of junk that you cant get your car into it, and the car happens to get hit with hail or storm damage parked in the drive, some ( not all) insurance companies will deny your claim, saying, in effect, if the car was at your residence it should have been garaged, so you're S.O.L

I say bring the mancave to TX! Heck they blast solid granite often times in the Northeast to get a basement, which is a heck of alot harder than limestone. Makes me wonder if slab on grade isnt just the cheapest way to throw up a house.... well , of course it is!
Cheers

What insurance Company is that ? I've never heard of that and it certainly isn't true of my insurance company.

[Driftwood1]

I double checked mine a while back, and while they urged my car should really be IN the garage in a storm and my rate was based on a "garage kept" car, we agreed the wording of the policy would still cover us.
Urban myth? ever happen to anyone ?
cheers

[TexasHorseLady]

What about tornados? Where do you go during a tornado warning?

We have a storm shelter. This after the F5 came to town.

[HMS Pinafore]

Originally Posted by 10scoachrick

Holy macanoli! I wish we could find a basement way up north in Avery Ranch. We found 'our' house in Feb. and it's still available. Boy, I would trade one of those bedrooms/media room/game room for a workshop in a flash! The house does have a third car bay but it's connected 'three-wide' rather than a separate bay(that would be perfect, I think).

One of the homes we saw while shopping this week had the 3-wide (2+1) connected garages and there was a dry wall separating the double from the single. Nice! It was a side entry garage, so there was a large window on the side as standard for natural light. It had double door width threshold in the dry wall between the two which allowed the natural light to 'flow' through from the single to the double section of the garage. Very clever. So there you can have a workshop with plenty of wall space. Our new home will have a 3 car garage but with the double as a side entry and a single that is separate and faces out on the far edge of the home.

[johnrex62]

Originally Posted by three_fish

What about tornados? Where do you go during a tornado warning?

Hmmm, good question. I have lived in Texas (San Antonio and Austin) for over 40 years and I don't recall ever hearing a warning siren. I can recall being called into the hallways on stormy mornings before class during elementary school a mere handful of times, but never heard any report of tornados those days.

Most of us outside of Jarrel and the trailer parks just run to the TV to see if one is really within a few hundred miles of us.

There are a few storm shelters and civil defense shelters scattered around, but few where you could actually use them. Sorry.

[love roses]

You're supposed to go to an interior room in your house. In our case, that's a closet!