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buildings is more per square foot than the weight of cars psf in a garage. • Garages have structural problems and need more
maintenance than buildings because they have no walls, and the elements that blow in or are carried in by the cars cause problems. • For those of you who live in southern climes, many
garages in the snow belt actually are heated. • Garages need to be open so that exhaust fumes are
expelled.Or they have to have large circulation fans to ensure people can breathe in them. • If you stand in the lane and help people with their
access cards or inserting their tickets in ticket acceptors, you will greatly increase the amount of time it takes to clear the garage. • Most people would prefer to pay at a POF than pay
on exit, although it would seem that pay on exit provides more service. •Most women (and many men) would prefer to park on
a surface lot than in a garage (they feelmore secure.) • Double-helix garages (I call them DNA garages) can
be very confusing.You can park on floor 4, for instance, and return and go to floor 4 and not be able to find your
car.These work fine for monthly garages where drivers can be trained on how to find their cars, but for visitors, they are the worst. • I like garages with speed ramps – i.e., corkscrews out-
side the garage with exits on each floor. Once you are in the speed ramp, you can go all the way to the ground and exit. In garages that are a continuous ramp, there is always someone waiting for someone else blocking the lane and you are stuck. • If you saw-cut a floor in a “post-tension” garage – that’s
one poured over high-stress cables – and you “nick” a cable, the thing can snap and “curl” up with such force that it can cut through a car. However, if the cable is covered in hose- like plastic, it won’t. • Engineers can find “spalling” – that is, rusting rebar
– in garages by dragging chains over the concrete and lis- tening for the differences in the resulting sound. They do this at night when the garage is empty, resulting in rumors of garage haunting. • Putting salt on the entry way to garages may help with
ice, but it also causes problems with the spalling (see above). Garages need to be washed down after storms. •That’s enough.
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