• pHr34kY@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Larger garages are more environmentally friendly. My garage is huge compared to my house. It has 2 cars, a laundry, and all of the stuff I don’t use every day.

    This is an area that is not heated or cooled. By having all the storage in the garage, I can get by with less living space.

    Garages are cheaper per square metre than rooms, so you save money there too.

    You get all the stuff into the same size house, but with less building materials, less heating and cooling costs, and less clutter in your house.

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      1 year ago

      Wouldn’t it be more environmentally friendly to store your cars outside and not have a garage?

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        1 year ago

        My car is 20 years old and has zero rust. The environmental footprint of manufacturing a car is huge. They last much longer in a garage. It also doesn’t need to get washed as often. Washing has an environmental overhead too.

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        1 year ago

        No, because it gets dirty and damaged more often meaning you need to clean and repair it more often.

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          1 year ago

          My car lives outside and I literally don’t do anything to it besides oil changes and occasional tire replacements. If all you have is a daily driver you really don’t need a garage.

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            1 year ago

            Do you live in a place that gets lots of snow? I hear a car is practically immortal in California; unlike Ohio where the salt/brine destroying the car slowly every winter.

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              1 year ago

              Yes but why would my car accumulate road salt while sitting in my driveway and how would storing it in a garage make this less of a problem?

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              But the brine comes from de-iced roads, so it’s irrelevant to whether the car is parked in a garage. Maybe roadside parking could expose it to more brine due to passing traffic.

    • Preston Maness ☭@lemmygrad.ml
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      My garage is huge compared to my house. It has 2 cars, a laundry, and all of the stuff I don’t use every day.

      You get all the stuff into the same size house

      Sounds like the problem is all the stuff.