House with master over the garage
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Anonymous
| I just wouldn't want the gas to waft up into my room when a car pulls in and out of the garage. |
Anonymous
Person living over a garage: that has never happened. |
Anonymous
| Our bedroom is over the garage and it is warmer in the summer. It’s cooler in the winter but that ok for me because I like sleeping in cool rooms. The sound has never been an issue because no one is coming and going from the house when I sleep, kids are young now. I’ve never had a gas smell. So it’s really only 3 months out of the year that it’s annoying. We should probably get spray foam put in the garage ceiling. |
Anonymous
The walls and ceilings between a garage and livings space are supposed to be air-tight construction with fire-rated drywall, to prevent this, carbon monoxide poisoning and fire spreading. It's a detail builders will skimp on if they're not watched. |
Anonymous
| Ours is..but a newer custom home but with double drywall and foam underneath. Don't feel cold or hot....even with the garage door open below on really hot or cold days. |
Anonymous
| We and our neighbors all have this - homes built in the early 90’s. No issues really. |
Anonymous
| Our house, built in 1990, has the master over the garage. And, to make matters worse, the master has a vaulted ceiling and is huge. Like others have said, the room tends to be colder in the winter. If we heat or cool the master to the desired temp, the other bedrooms are too hot or too cool. (We do have a dual heat/ac system.) We've not had any issue with smelling car exhaust in the master. If I were buying another home or building new, a bedroom over the garage wouldn't be a deal breaker but I'd evaluate carefully the size of the room and heat/ac situation. |
Anonymous
| Don't do it! Every single time my husband pulls out a car or a golf cart or someone opens the garage door I am awakened. Also you don't want a master bath near a garage because of freezing/pipe issues. |
Anonymous
Hm. Hadn’t thought about this. |
Anonymous
| Once you have teenagers who can drive, hearing the garage door from your bedroom is a feature, not a bug. |
Anonymous
Do you mean gasoline? We’ve never ever had gas exposed in garage air. Do you mean exhaust fumes? You never ever idle your car with a closed garage door and even then the car is running in the garage for only moments. Besides, nothing ever wafts from our garage into anywhere in our home. There’s no venting from the garage to the main part of the house. |