Need car lift recommendations for new home Options

[Cairo94507]

Hi Guys,

My wife and I bought a new (to us) home on 2.8 acres (hopefully she is content to stay there until I am in the ground (IMG:style_emoticons/default/hands.gif) ). It has a large 3-car that is 6' wider than my current over-sized 3-car, has a 10' ceiling and is deeper too but I can't remember how much deeper. I am going back tomorrow morning to take measurements of all of the rooms so I can start thinking what we will do inside.

I am looking for lift recommendations for that garage. I have thus far had a 4-post and a scissor-lift and loved both. But I like to begin from scratch and research what is new and see if that is a better fit for for my today needs. And, yes, I am going to completely remodel that garage.

To be honest, I am kind of liking the 2-post BendPak GrandPrix GP-7LCS. https://www.bendpak.com/car-lifts/two-post-lifts/gp-7lcs/

It is only 106.5" tall (about 8'10") so that leaves me 14" of ceiling clearance which I like. What do you guys think or recommend?

It will of course be a lot of work, but in the end should be really nice.

Thanks,
Michael

[Cairo94507]

r_towle - OK. I understand now. I pretty much built the garage of my dreams in our current home. I will be just replicating about 80% of that build and making changes for the other 20%.

We went back out to the house yesterday and I walked the property with our realtor, my brother and the 90-year-old owner. Amazing guy. We identified the property corners and he showed me the Agriculture Water supply and lines to the property as well as all of the sprinkler systems to keep everything watered/dripped, etc. I must admit, as I have never had open land, to me 2.8 acres is a lot of land, I am a bit nervous about the upkeep.

I have never heard of "Ag water" before. Apparently, and this has been the case since these homes were built, you pay a flat fee per year, $1K, and you get a 1.5" water supply line to your property and you can run that 24/7 for your property water needs for landscape. The home has city water. So that was nice to learn as trying to keep all of the landscaping green on city water would be $1K a month I am sure.

Also, the ag water supplies water to the roof sprinkler system that covers 100% of the home and approximately 25' all around the home.

I am getting his John Deer D140 riding mower, (I need to order a service kit for it so I know it is all up to snuff (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)) trailer and spray cart with the home. I am also negotiating for the new Stihl chain saw that he said has about 20 minutes of use on it (it looks brand spanking new), his weed whacker, and some other incidentals to keep the grounds nice.

The plan is to build a 1200 sq. ft. ADU that sits on top of a large garage for my twin brother, on the east side of the property. That will get completely built and it will include landscaping, driveway, septic, and irrigation for that side of the property. So that should reduce some of my maintenance worries. But really the current owner bought the property when he was 69 and has maintained it mostly by himself. So maybe I will be able to manage mostly on my own too.

But I would be lying if I said I was not nervous about all of the potential work as I get old as F. Our realtor, Julie Juliano is absolutely the best- bar none. She lives relatively close and has large acreage, really large acreage. She is going to give us a list of all of the local people who do anything that might need doing. That will help a lot.

Another cool factor is the seller just 14 months ago had a brand new Generac generator installed and it is cool. It automatically turns on/off if we lose power to the home. That was very nice to see. Really clean install too.