Dod101 wrote:All of which assumes the garage doors are wide enough to take a car in the first place. I inherited a double garage but with two separate electrically operated doors with a solid pillar between. The daftest idea ever. I have looked at removing the pillar and installing one big door. perfectly feasible just not a priority so my car sits outside. How many days over the winter do we have snow? We either get no snow like last winter or so much of the stuff that I could not get the car out of the garage anyway so it is simply not an issue.
In a competition between identical houses I would be put off by my arrangements but in my street they are all individual houses so there are many more critical factors to consider and when we bought the garage arrangements were simply not an issue.
Dod
Having spent the winters of 1961-2-3 in the Peak District, I can testify to the value of a garage. Likewise, having been in the Great Lakes region in 1965, when Detroit had 19 inches of snow one night, having our car in the hotel's underground garage was definitely an advantage.
Having the car parked in the open at the factory during the day reinforced that opinion.
The usual problem is when you have a 3 foot snowdrift against the garage door, so you have to dig your way out anyway. We had an 8 inch fall of snow in Sheffield in 1959, which meant that we had to clear the side road as far as the main road in order to get out. No chance of driving through it.
TJH