24x24 Garage Plans

24x24 2 Car Garage Plans with a Single Door

24x24 2 Car Garage Plans with Door Under Eve

24x24 2 Car Garage Plans with Two Door

24x24 2 Car Garage Plans with Hip Roof

24x24 Garage Plans

Have you always dreamed of the benefits and flexibility a detached garage can bring to your property? iCreatables offers 24x24 garage plans in four different styles — check them all out and choose the one you like best.

DETACHED GARAGE PLANS

If you bought a home without a garage, you may have planned to add one later. Whether it’s been one year or 20 since you had that idea, we can help you make it a reality with our 24x24 garage plans. It will be exciting to finally have a two-car garage to park your vehicles in, but a detached garage can serve a much greater purpose. The average two-car garage is 18x20, so our 24x24 garage plans give you the extra space you want for a workshop, storage area or a place to spend time on your hobbies. With a detached garage, your cars will last longer and look nicer, because they will be protected from the elements. Additionally, if you live in a cold climate, you will no longer have to spend time cleaning the snow and ice off your vehicles.

24x24 Garage Plans with a Single Door

We offer two sets of 24x24 garage plans with a single door — one with the roof gables pitched toward the front and back, and the other side to side. It’s mostly an aesthetic choice — you may want your garage to match the look of your home or the look of other outbuildings. What many homeowners love about a detached garage is having the flexibility to locate it anywhere on their property. A two-car garage dominates any home’s frontage, and you can avoid that by locating your garage elsewhere.

24x24 Garage Plans with Two Doors

The cost of building a two-car garage with a single door versus two doors is about the same — the difference between the two is mostly function. With a single door, you have more space to maneuver, which can be handy if you have a big truck or a trailer for boats, ATVs, horses, etc. Additionally, with one door, you can park in the middle of your garage if you need space to work on other pursuits. The advantage of having two doors is that you can choose to open only one if you want to let a controlled amount of heat and light into the space. Further, if you should require garage door repair at any time, your other door would remain functional.

24x24 Garage Plans with Hip Roof

A hip roof is a beautiful roof design that is different from the typical gable roof. While some homeowners simply prefer the look of a hip roof, others choose this style of roof for its strength and durability. It can withstand high winds, so if you live in a windy or hurricane- prone area, a hip roof is a great choice.

Browse all our 24x24 garage plans and pick the one you love best. Building your own two car garage is the perfect way to increase parking and storage space.

 

iCreatables GARAGE PLAN DESIGN STANDARDS

iCreatables.com provides garage plans that follow the prescriptive guidelines in the International Residential Code (IRC). This means that our plans can often be used to apply for a building permit without additional engineering. Check with your local building department for specific information regarding their building code requirements.

 

Planning Your 24x24 Garage Build using plans from iCreatables.com

There are several items that need to be planned for when building a detached garage. Every region has its particular unique requirements. These are the general steps and items you will need to put together your project, apply for a 24x24 garage building permit and build your garage.

Site Plan: The site plan or plot plan shows where your garage will sit on your property. It tells the building department and those building it the distances of the garage from existing structures and property lines. You can see an example of a plot plan here http://www.icreatables.com/yard-and-garden/plot-plan.html

It will help you to start your planning with the site plan because it will let you know how large of a detached garage you can build and how it will affect the existing structures.

A simple hand drawn plot plan can be drawn and taken to the building department to allow you to ask questions about your project. Your local county recorder will have some information about your building plot. This information and on site measuring will get you close to what you need to make a sketch.

Elevation of the structure: Knowing the finished roof peak height is important because most cities have height ordinances and you will need to know the foundation footing and top of slab or top of wall height so you can excavate the hole to the proper depth.

With detached garages it is often easiest to set the elevation by matching the top of concrete height of and existing structure like a house. The excavator will have a laser level and will be able to easily match the height and dig the hole to the proper depth based on the height of the foundation wall or monolithic slab shown on the plans.

Plans: The plans designed by iCreatables.com are designed to the IRC guildelines. You will use the plans during all phase of construction, ie. pre-planning with the buiding department, applying for financing, bidding with sub contractors and construction.

Financing: Knowing what a project will cost to build is vital to your project planning and construction. Whether you are owner financing the project or borrowing to build, it is important to know how much your project will cost to build. These are the steps to getting an accurate cost to build your garage:

--Contact your building department and ask them permitting costs: The cost of a permit is typically based on the size of the structure, the estimated cost to build and any impact fees that your jurisdiction requires.

--Materials. Sending the plans and material take off to several lumber suppliers is the best way to get materials pricing. Sub contractors will often give you a labor and materials price but the lumber and roofing can often be purchased cheaper than through the sub contractor.

--Contact Sub Contractors for Bids for work that you are not performing and get prices based on the plans and any changes you are making to the plans. Typical subs used to build a 24x24 garage include: Excavation, Gravel products, Foundation and flatwork concrete labor and materials, Framing labor, Electrical, Roofer, Siding, Painter.

Roof Trusses: Roof trusses are ordered from a truss plant. If you cannot find a truss plant in your area using an internet search you can contact a lumber yard and ask them where to have trusses made.

When a truss plant builds trusses they will supply the engineering with them. The truss plans will be stamped to meet your local conditions by the truss plants in house enginneer. This engineering should meet your local buiding departments roof engineering requirements.

 

TYPICAL STEPS TO BUILDING A DETACHED GARAGE

After all the planning it often feels like the actual construction is the easy part. The steps to construction of your 24x24 garage design include the following:

--Layout of the construction site to be excavated. To layout the garage build site you will need to find the property corners and pull a string line from corner to corner. Then measure from the string lines to the corners of the new garage. Install pins for each of the 24x24 garages corners. Your excavator will use these pins to excavate the building pad to the proper depth.

--Mark the elevation so the excavator will know how deep to dig. You can rent a laser level to help find the elevation.

--Excavation. The excavator will draw the exterior lines of the garage and then move the pins out so they can dig along the lines. They will dig at an inital point and find the bottom of footing depth. They will then digg out the footing holes. You may need to find a place to put the dirt while the excavator digs the hole. If you are installing Plumbing drains you will want to excavate and find the height of the sewer drain you are connecting to before digging the hole for the footings.

--Footing Set: The first step in setting up the footing boards is to locate them in the hole. Measure from the string lines between the property corners to locate the garage corners again. Install a stake at each corner. Check the pin locations for square by measuring diagonally between the garage corners.The footing forms are set in the hole and installed in relation to the corner pins.

It is important to double check the location of the garage corners from the property lines and existing structures. Your building department has the power to make you tear out what you build if it is built in the wrong place.

If you do not feel comfortable in checking the location of you garage then hire a surveyor to locate it. This is very common and they typically charge a minimal fee for this service.

--Pour the footings: Things to check here are to make sure that there is a ground for your electrical installed into the footings. This is a piece of rebar that will come up out of the top of the footing far enough to make it to the top of the foundation wall so the electrician can clamp a ground wire to it and ground the electrical panel.

If you are pouring a monolithic slab you will need to have gravel installed under the floor slab so that your finished floor is about 4 inches thick. It may need to be compacted.

--Mark the foundation walls on the top of the footings: If you are using a footing and foundation wall construction you will need to once again measure and mark the garage corners. This time you will do it on top of the footings.

--Setup and pour the foundation walls: Things to check here are that the garage foundation is located the proper distances from the property lines and existing structures. Make sure that the garage door opening is blocked out so you have the proper distance between the two sides of the garage door without concrete sticking out. You may also need to block out the back sides of the wall where the garage door attaches to the wall framing so the door track can go to the top of the concrete slab.

--Anchor Bolts: Anchor bolt locations can be marked on the form boards before the concrete is poured. Double check the locations and do not rely on the contractor to know where the bolts need to be. They will often place them according to codes but will not check your framing plans to see if there is a structural colum, like at the door.

Install the hold down anchors for the Portal Framing or Alternate Braced Walls depending on your design. Double check the locations in relation to the garage door opening and wall ends so that the anchor will be aligned with the wall framing.

--Strip The Forms: The morning after the garage concrete is poured you can strip the form boards.

--Pouring The 24x24 Garage Slab: If you are using a monolithic footing you will not need to do this. For foundation plan garage designs you will need to mark the height of the garage slab on the interior of the garage wall. Install gravel under the slab so there is about 4 inches of depth in the concrete. Compact the gravel. Pour the slab.

--Framing The Garage: You are now ready to frame the garage. Things to watch out for when framing the garage walls are header height and proper installation of the Portal Framing or Alternate Braced Wall Opening Beams and Panels.

Set the window and door header heights by measuring from the top of the concrete slab.

Make sure that the blocking that holds the garage door rails is installed around the garage door opening.

Make sure that the casing around the garage door is installed properly to fit your garage door and will work well with your siding and trim.

--Install Roof Trusses and Sheeting: The roof trusses typically take two or more weeks to order and have delivered. You or your framer contractor will need to schedule a boom crane truck to set the trusses on the wall top plates. A 24x24 garage roof truss can in theory be lifted up to the top plates and set by hand if you have lots of help but be careful. Make sure that the truss locations are laid out on the top of the wall plates before starting to set the trusses. Make sure that the trusses are well braced if you plan to leave them standing overnight without installing the sheeting.

Mark and cut the roof eve overhangs.

Install the outlookers and barge rafter on the gable ends of the roof, when applicable.

Sheet the roof.

--Install Siding: There are many different sidings. Install your siding per the manufacturers instructions.

--Install Electrical: After the roof is sheeted the electrician can install the wiring. Make sure that the electrical panel is installed where you need it to be so you can pull the main power feed to it.

Have the garage door installer come out and install low voltage wires to the garage door operator button and the sensor locations on each side of the door so you do not have wires visible after the drywall is installed. Your electrician may also do this.

--Install The Garage Door: The garage door is typically installed by the supplier of the door. Make sure that they

-Paint the Garage: Paint the exterior of the garage.

 

These steps are guidelines! Please contact your local building department for exact requirements on your property.

iCreatables.com provides downloadable plans so you can start building your 24x24 garage today! PDF files can be emailed to you so you can print them locally. The are designed to be printed on 24" x18" paper but you can print them on 8 ½ X 11 paper to view the plans and use them for bidding. To print the plans to the proper scale you can send them to an office store that prints large document black and white. Most local office stores or print shops have a printer that will print this size.

We can print and postal mail them to you as well.