We recommend a detached garage on any Augusta property deep enough to set it apart from the house, because the separation keeps exhaust, noise and the cold air of an open door out of the rooms you live in. Standing on its own frost-wall foundation, it also frees the design from the house's old rooflines, so the walls and roof pitch can suit the garage itself.
On a detached build, we run compacted gravel from the driveway straight to the overhead doors and leave out the concrete apron entirely. An apron poured outside the door rides on ground that freezes and lifts each winter in this valley, and once it tilts, it channels meltwater back under the overhead door.
