Garage (residential)
A garage is a lockable, covered and enclosed by solid walls ( with garage ) parking space for vehicles, mostly cars or cable car transportation devices, a garage for rail vehicles is usually called remise. The word garage comes as the related " gare " (train station), from the French. Garer means " safe place ". In Austria and Switzerland is predominantly understood garage under a car repair shop
A parking space garage to protect against theft, as well as from the weather and is often used for storage of tool and as a repair station.
In contrast to the garage carport is indeed covered as a park, but at least to one side open and thus offers no protection against theft.
However, a closed garage can have the disadvantage that moisture can not be dissipated like a carport. The risk of rust and a concomitant premature loss of value can thus be greater for a vehicle in a garage than in a carport.
The garages can be single garages and large car parks ( Switzerland: Einstellhalle ) differ. While in a single garage the vehicle has its own lockable room, the big garage used to accommodate several vehicles. Some large garage types offer but by rolling gate and barriers between individual plots also have the option to include a vehicle separately. Partial large garages also be monitored with cameras.
A garage facility that is used by several owners are referred to as community garage.
Other significance
In Switzerland garage is also the name for an auto repair shop, the operator is called Garagist.
Garage variants
- Prefabricated concrete garage
- Prefabricated garage made of steel or aluminum
- Brick garage
- Single Garage: parking space for one vehicle
- Double Garage: here can park two cars side by side
- Duplex Garage or Double Garage floor: here you can park two cars one above the other
- Great Room Garage: designed for truck or RV garage
- Erddruckgarage: must be interpreted by the Structural ago so that walls and / or roof can carry the load and wet earth; Moreover, it must be insulated against moisture.
- Underground Garage: one-storey Erddruckgarage that can be incorporated, for example in a slope or is incorporated as a completely underground parking. Your roof can be used as a garden area or terrace.
- Underground parking: underground garage with space for several cars
- Number Garage: modular multiple garages are built with thin walls between adjacent
- Parking systems
- Car park
- Carport
Garage Roof
Even for precast concrete garages, there are different roof types, so that the garage can be adapted to the optics of the house, such as
- Flat roof
- Hipped roof
- Lean-to roof
- Saddle roof
- Pent roof
- Hipped roof
Many cities see the construction of garages or carports mandatory before a green roof, one for an improved stormwater management, on the other to compensate for the increasing sealing of the landscape.
Garage
There are different types of garage doors:
- Barndoors
- Overhead door
- Roll-up door
- Sliding
- Overhead Door
- Sectional
Garage doors are now usually equipped with a gear motor, so that they can be opened, for example, by remote control out of the car more convenient.
Construction Law in Germany
Building laws, the execution and operation of garages in Germany in the regulations governing the construction and operation of garages (garage Regulation, GaragenVO ) is regulated in the individual federal states.
In the pattern -Garage Regulation of the Federal (M- GarVO ) is determined, among other things:
There are garages with a total floor area
- Up to 100 m² small garages,
- About 100 m² to 1000 m² means garages,
- Over 1000 m² large garages.
Open garages are garages that have directly to the outside openings in a size of at least one third of the total area of the enclosing walls.
The pitch size is at least 5 m in length and 2.3 m width (left and right additional parking ) and 2.5 m wide. Likewise, access sizes, curve radii, aisles, etc. set.
The M- GarVO also regulates the storage of combustible materials: For up to 200 liters of diesel and up to 20 liters of fuel may be stored in sealed, unbreakable containers, for example in small garages.
If garages are built near the property line or directly to the property boundary, the boundary construction law applies. Under certain conditions allowed the size limit construction law, without the consent of neighbors to build even garages directly to the property boundary. The size requirements differ depending on the province or state building code.
A special case is the machine shop (eg in agriculture ) setting is the insinuation or repair of vehicle such as trucks, tractors, etc. It therefore meets the definition of a formal garage. However, it is in the car mostly to machinery. Also, the user behavior is significantly different. Accordingly, the relevant regulations of the countries Garage variations in the structural requirements (eg fire protection) as well as the technical equipment ( eg ventilation ) provide.
History
The world's first specially planned for a motor vehicle garage, Carl Benz built in 1910 in Ladenburg.
Others
In October 2007, the German Association of Garage eV was founded. Purpose of the Association is under the statutes to "promote knowledge acquisition through garages and public information on the manufacture, maximum design differences, purposes and uses (public relations ) ". The club is located, according to its website in 2012 already back in the resolution.