Guides / Gym and storage · Updated November 2026

Two-car garage workshop layouts

Machines at the sizes in their manuals, a 24 × 24 ft garage, 36 in to walk. Your machines and garage will differ, so measure them.

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Short answer

A table saw with its rails is 66 × 40 in, and Grizzly's manual wants 30 in clear round it. That fits in one bay of a 24 × 24 ft garage with a car in the other. With both cars parked there's room for a bandsaw, drill press and dust collector on the back wall, but not a table saw.

A shop in one bay, a car in the other

Table saw
Tools and storage
Car, mirrors out
30 in round the saw
36 in to walk
Garage doors

The left bay is the shop and the right bay keeps the car, with 36 in to walk on both sides of it. The saw sits on a mobile base, so it can roll toward the open door for a long rip.

In front of the blade: 108 in to the door line. Behind it: 110 in. An 8 ft board needs 96 in each way to rip its full length.

The whole garage as a shop

Table saw
Tools and storage
Car, mirrors out
30 in round the saw
36 in to walk
Garage doors

The saw sits in the middle with 30 in clear round it and 8 ft in front of and behind the blade, so a full sheet or an 8 ft board rips with the door shut.

In front of the blade: 120 in to the door line. Behind it: 104 in. An 8 ft board needs 96 in each way to rip its full length.

Both cars parked, the shop on the back wall

Table saw
Tools and storage
Car, mirrors out
30 in round the saw
36 in to walk
Garage doors

With both cars in, the back wall holds the bandsaw, drill press, dust collector and storage, with 36 in to walk in front of the bumpers. A table saw doesn’t fit: it needs 30 in clear round it.

In front of the bumpers there's 61 in behind the Model Y and 65 in behind the CX-5 after 36 in to walk, enough for the 30 in deep bandsaw.

The machines

Machine	Width × depth
Grizzly G0899 10 in hybrid table saw, with rails	66 × 40 in
Grizzly G0555LX 14 in bandsaw	27 × 30 in
Grizzly G7943 drill press	14.5 × 24 in
Grizzly G1029Z2P dust collector	37 × 27 in
U.S. General Series 3 roll cab	42 × 22 in
Gladiator heavy duty rack, 77 in	77 × 24 in
Gladiator heavy duty rack, 48 in	48 × 18 in

The saw rolls on a BORA PM-1000, which adjusts up to 32 × 32 in, enough for the saw's 19½ × 20½ in cabinet, and adds less than 1 in of height. Grizzly's manual says to stand to the side of the blade path and to put an outfeed table behind the saw, but it gives no length for either. SawStop's site wouldn't let us read it, so there's no SawStop here.

Plan the rest

Size the wire for the saw and the dust collector with the wire size calculator, set the bench with the workbench height calculator, or keep the car and add storage with the garage storage layouts.