Garage Builders in Windsor, ME

On a wide Windsor field, a garage with its doors on the sheltered side stays clear of the drifts that would otherwise bury the entries after every storm. We set the long back wall toward the prevailing wind and carry a deeper roof overhang across the door side to keep blowing snow off the threshold.

Open ground also means the building takes the full force of a winter gale, so the roof framing is tied down and the walls anchored to the foundation as the code requires. Gravel runs to each door, and it stays put where a poured apron on exposed ground would heave and crack.

Some Windsor owners want the convenience of an attached garage without a garage wall against the kitchen, and a covered breezeway answers that. The breezeway gives you a dry walk from the car to the house and a handy spot for boots, feed bags or the recycling bins, out of the weather but out of the house.

Code enforcement officers can treat a breezeway garage as attached, so we plan the fire separation and the rated door at the house end from the start, before the town has to ask. The breezeway roof steps down between the two buildings, which keeps the farmhouse roofline clean and lets each building shed its own snow.

Plenty of Windsor owners build the shell now and finish the inside when the budget catches up, and we frame for that from day one. A 24 by 24 two-bay shell arrives with bare studs, a closed-in roof, overhead doors and basic wiring, ready for insulation and drywall whenever you choose.

We suggest adding extra outlets and a ceiling box for a future heater during the shell build, while every stud bay is still open. The shell column and the finished column in the cost table below show what each stage runs in Windsor, so you can budget the two halves separately.