How tall are car lifts

Typically, a foot minimum clearance, floor to ceiling, is required for your general two-post lift. Higher ceiling height is required for some of the four-post storage lifts and anything designed for larger trucks.

For personal or hobby shops, many people purchase or reference Behm Design plans. To help place this in context, many of their plans utilize foot-high framed walls, while others use 8-foot to foot framed structures with extended upward foundation walls. Be sure to check with your local authorities to ensure you can erect a structure with framed bearing walls exceeding 10 feet, and get up to speed on local codes that may change the way you plan out your space.

The absolute minimum width that will allow for a lift is around 11 feet, but many mechanics fail to allow for 3 or 4 feet of clearance on all sides to allow for easy access to any area of the vehicle. Search forums. Log in. JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding. You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.

You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. What is the minimum ceiling height above a lift? Thread starter swharris Start date Feb 12, Joined Jan 10, Messages Location So. Trying to get some dimensions for the bay with the lift. I don't want to be cramped while working around a car on the lift. What height ceiling should be minimum, and also how much space on the sides and in front should I allow?

I will allow for cabinets in front of the bay, so just the working room around the car is what I'm looking for. Hoping to get 3 bays and a shop out of this design. I am limited to about 50' total width. Thanks for all the help! Love this place, why did it take me so long to find it?? Stuart in MN Well-known member. Joined Sep 8, Messages 18, Location Minneapolis. What vehicle are you putting on the lift? How tall are you? There's a big difference between a 5 foot person working under a GT40 and a 7 foot tall person working under a jacked up 4x4.

Joined Feb 3, Messages For your size garage I would go a " minimum " of 27 feet deep. This will leave about 4 feet of room infront of a larger vehicle. I would have 14ft ceiling height so you can add extra height on your lift if you need it. For width it seems that you won't have a problem with 50ft overall. Check out Rotary. Also pour the correct PSI concrete and depth. I would plan 12' minumum with for each bay. Height depends on whether you want to be able to stand under the car or not.

The process generally takes half a day. Our team of installers will arrive on-site to install the lift. The car lift does not have to be anchored to function effectively, but it can be anchored if you prefer. It runs on a v outlet, raises electrically, and lowers hydraulically. After the car lift is installed, our team will teach you how to use the lift, make sure you feel comfortable with it, and answer any of your questions.

Lifts installed by Garage Living use locking pins in each post with a secondary locking mechanism.