I could see a garage pad and framing being build with an odd angled wall, but what I cannot see in my head is the roofline, how it will work, how it will look, etc...
My property line is not square and I'd rather not waste any area by building it square...
Where could I find pictures or designs of something like this ?
How were you thinking of running the roof? shed style, A style? Send me a pm with an email address and I'll try and send you some ideas. Wall lengths and heights would be helpful to me if you want me to try and model it.
If you want a quick and easy way to see what something would look like, get some playdough. Make a rectangle and shape your roof as if the strange wall didn't exist. Then take a sharp knife and cut the wall angle. Seems kind of silly but we used to do this in our architectral design classes to quickly model ideas and strange 3d shapes. Its a lot faster than trying to do models with cardboard. I'm going to something very similar to this but in autocad.
Try to get the scale, wall lengths and height as close to what you think the building will be so you get as accurate a model as posible.
Like DSW said. what kinda roof are you thinking of, shed, gable, hip? if its a shed or gable what way would it slope? what kind of roof pitch are you thinking of, (4/12, 5/12, 6/12 and so on)
Another thought that occured to me would be a flat roof after reading southonbeach's reply. I think flat roofs suck, loads of potential problems and leaks. However you will find that this is the predominent commercial roof style and it handles angles easily.
flat is an idea that would work. i think i'd rather do a low slope shed metal roofing, with the low side draining off on the longest wall would be a really easy one to do. though i just looked and see that the original poster is from canada, thats gonna need to bo some heavy roof framing to deal with the snow load probably on a flat or low slope roof.
you might want to look at downloading Google Sketchup, its free. its a cool 3D cad program that will let you draw stuff out pretty easily. just off the top of my head thinking. a gable roof using scissor trusses on a 4/12 pitch roof, would give you the max height inside.
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