Short story long: GF and I are casually looking for a house. My major want is to have enough indoor parking for 3 cars (her daily, my daily and a project car).
That said, there's only so many configurations that allow this. Most triple car garages in the areas we want to live are out of our price range.
So the only other options are:
1. double attached garage with an alley and a back yard large enough to accommodate a future garage
2. double attached garage with ceilings high enough to get a single car lift on one side.
Option #2 seems to be the most feasible, however most houses we've looked at with double garages don't have a ceiling high enough to accommodate a lift (hoping for min. 10.5', the ones we've seen are around 8').
So I'm wondering roughly how much it would cost to change the truss design of a double attached garage (without a bonus room or anything above it) to allow for a higher ceiling? I'd probably just hire a contractor to do it all since permits, engineering etc are likely involved. If this turns out to be cost prohibitive, then it basically puts us back to option #1 or lucking out with a house we like that has a garage ceiling high enough.
Thanks!