Now I'm worried. I though 6 m wide was fairly generous with some double garages being 5.5 m wide.
brittany, do you have exceptionally large cars? Is the garage really 6 m wide?
Even a large car such as a Holden Commodore with it's 1899 mm width would give you on average 734 mm between cars/walls. The first click stop on my car (Mazda 323) is 500 mm, so 734 is generous.
(Mazda 323 = 1755 wide, therefore 3 x 830 mm gap)
(Mazda 626 = 1780 mm wide, therefore 3 x 813 mm gaps)
I bet your garage is not 6 m wide!
Cheers,
Casa
Works well in theory, but in practice the figures don't ad up.
6 meteres wide less the piers is 5800mm wide less the plaster board 5620mm wide. OK now take the large car with at 1900mm wide with the average door opening at 620mm. (most cars are a bugger to get out of at first click, usually second is used)
This makes the width required to open a drivers and passengers door 3140mm wide leaving just 2480mm for the other car. This is ok as long as it a daewoo matiz or similarand it is parked up against the remaining wall. Take another 400mm off to allow for swing into a 4800mm wide double door and the parked car now has a space of 2080m to park within.
Now throw into this equation a child seat and you have the rear door opening required at 860mm. This leaves a tiny 2240. (1840mm on the above example)
This also does not take into consideration any shelving / cupboards / stuff left leaning against side walls etc.
Now ad 1000mm to each of the figures above and look at the difference.
Having experienced 5.5m with piers (no plaster) 6m with piers (no plaster) and 8m with plaster and piers I will never revert back.
The trend towards smaller cars might be OK if you live in the city, but 90% of the people on this forum I would imagine live in the "suburbs" and therefore need safer / larger cars and therefore larger parking spots.
My 2 cents....
Matt