Room family

Garage floor plan templates

A garage is dimensioned by the vehicle plus the door you need to open beside it, and one-car garages are not disappearing — they were nine percent of new single-family completions in 2024, the highest share in three decades. The other constraints are the separation between the garage and the dwelling, the slab, and where the door header lands. The templates here cover a one-car, a two-car, a tandem, and a two-car with a workshop bench along one wall. Vehicle stalls are drawn at real size with the door-opening clearance beside them.

The wall and door separating a garage from the dwelling are drawn to the fire-separation requirements cited on each sheet.

1 template, 507 sf. DXF R2018, drawn in inches. Free, no signup.

Tandem Garage 13'-0" x 39'-0", 507 sf
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Tandem Garage

Garages - 13'-0" x 39'-0" interior, 507 sf - typical for this room type: 264 sf

Tandem Garage floor plan template, 13'-0" x 39'-0", 507 sf
Tandem Garage - plan view, 13'-0" x 39'-0"

One 10 by 20 ft parking stall with an overhead door, plus enough room around the car to open a door and walk past. About 12 by 22 ft.

The sheet carries the fixture clearances as drawn geometry on their own layer, with the dimension strings and room notes outside the walls.

Size

Interior (W x D)13'-0" x 39'-0"
Floor area507 sf
Overall, outside face of wall14'-0" x 39'-10"
Workable range for this room type 252 to 400 sf
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What is in it

Every one is a block from the CADdillo library, inserted — not drawn for this sheet. Linked where the block has a library page.

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Codes cited on the sheet

  • verified IRC 2021 M1307.3 — Appliances having an ignition source shall be elevated such that the source of ignition is not less than 18 inches above the floor in garages. Exception: appliances listed as flammable-vapor-ignition resistant.
  • verified NEC (NFPA 70) 110.26(A)(1)(2)(3) — Working space about electrical equipment: 3 ft of depth for 0 to 150 V Condition 1 per Table 110.26(A)(1), a width of 30 in or the width of the equipment whichever is greater, and 6.5 ft of headroom. A car parked in that space is a violation that happens twice a day.
  • unverified IRC 2021 M1307.3.1 protection from vehicle impact (unverified) — Appliances in a garage in the path of a vehicle shall be protected from impact by barriers.
  • unverified IRC 2021 R302.5.1 and R302.6 garage separation (unverified) — The garage shall be separated from the dwelling by the required fire-resistant construction, and the door between them shall be solid wood, solid or honeycomb core steel, or 20-minute fire-rated, self-closing and self-latching, and shall not open into a sleeping room.
  • unverified typical practice — A 10 by 20 ft stall plus about 24 in beside it to open a car door and step out. Neither number is code; a garage is not a habitable room and carries no minimum area.

"Verified" means the citation was checked against the source text we hold. "Unverified" means it has not been, and should be read as a pointer to look the section up rather than as a quotation of it.

How this was checked

20 of 121 checks graded, zero defects. This template is published because it graded clean.

101 checks had nothing to measure on this sheet
  • ada key features
  • bath bands do not scale
  • bath fixture order and reach
  • bath one door
  • bath privacy
  • bath sink first
  • block faces its wall
  • brief satisfied
  • building inside the setbacks
  • building on the parcel
  • circulation share of the floor plate
  • circulation zones
  • classroom desks fill the room
  • clearance drawing matches
  • codes
  • commercial seating rules
  • commercial seats face display
  • every requested item placed
  • declared minimum width
  • byte-identical rebuild
  • door count by kind
  • entry and garage reach the right rooms
  • entry reaches public and private
  • every bay has its restrooms
  • every storey has its restrooms
  • number of exits
  • exit stair discharges
  • exterior doors
  • exterior doors declared
  • flanker has a legitimate spot
  • flanking seats flank
  • food service keeps its restrooms
  • garage bays
  • garage drive and entry walk
  • garage projection
  • garage room depth
  • daylight area for habitable rooms
  • handed lounge faces the room
  • heated vs programme
  • hood over range
  • jog count
  • jog min dimension
  • laundry out of the public zone
  • lodging accessible counts
  • lot dimension text clear
  • lot dimensions close
  • lot record is consistent
  • main entry faces street
  • master opposite garage
  • named room holds its thing
  • no ada in residential
  • no reentrant in room
  • not entered through service
  • packer rooms drawn
  • perimeter offices on exterior
  • plate in range
  • plumbing fixture count for the occupant load
  • porch exclusive
  • private rooms hang off the hall
  • programme filler caps
  • public zone on the living level
  • res bath complete
  • res bath fixture order
  • res bedroom door and closet
  • res dwelling unit boundary
  • res every room labelled
  • res garage door into dwelling
  • res garage door width
  • res mudroom laundry
  • res pocket door inside
  • restroom door placement
  • restroom lav first
  • restroom pairs are separated
  • restrooms are sexed or single
  • room bands by ratio
  • room vs programme
  • rooms inside union
  • seat backs off glazing
  • seats face focus
  • seats face open floor
  • service room bands
  • size matches ask
  • sleeping level has a full bath
  • sofa anchor backs a wall
  • sofa only where commerce seats
  • spine serves every private room
  • stair doorway landing
  • stair end landing
  • rooms contained within their suite
  • table seated around
  • tables are seated
  • tub before shower
  • walking route between rooms
  • wall blocks backed
  • wall through opening
  • walls trace outline
  • window geometry
  • workstation bank rules
  • workstation field balanced
  • zone assigned
  • zone labels present

A single room on its own sheet is not a whole building, so the checks that grade a floor plate — exit counts, circulation share, fixture counts against an occupant load — have no subject here. They are listed rather than counted as passes.

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