Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads?

So this took a minute. A loooooooooong time ago I posted on this thread with the drawings I had submitted for planning. Well nearly 3 years later it’s built and I’m delighted.

At the outset it was a little bit of a battle to get my original plans through so I amended the design and made the garage separate to the house and hey presto planning approved.

So what I’m left with is a 12 x 6m garage with 4.5m of ceiling height that can accommodate stackers should/when the collection get further out of hand…..
Additionally I have a 5 x 5.5m workshop with ramp which is the repurposed original ‘double’ garage.

The new garage and carport are UK supplied in kit form and then constructed by a local firm. The foundations, slab and paths etc as well as all earthworks were also a local firm to the area. Usefully the garden was overpopulated with leylandii trees which stole so much of the grass area. These were all removed and then the area released reinstated as grass so my son hasn’t really lost out on any play area. The total plot is about 1 acre anyway so there’s quite an area to the front of the house too.

The doors are all roller-types so there is no internal obstructions.

The floor in the main garage is a marble look 1200 x 600 gloss tile.

The floor in the workshop is a swisstrax click together tile which I’m very pleased with.

The ramps are from Automotech and this is the second house I’ve had these ramps installed at.

All in the cost for all of this work was just over £80k which I’m quite pleased with given the result.

That is quite a garage, and plot I'm sure I recognise that white wagon from Scoobynet days too

Haha thank you. I did put a decent amount of effort into it.

Thanks, it's one of these 20yr outdoor paints that i had sprayed on and i'm really pleased. It's also very similar to Disney's Go Away Green which i felt was worth using to help the building blend a little. I did consider having the external cladding treated in a Shou Sugi Ban style but wasn't brave enough in the end so boring old paint it was!

Thanks, it does help that I come from a long line of car enthusiasts!!

The garage itself was £37k inc upspecced roofing material etc.
Groundworks were £12k
Install was £6k
Paint was £3k
Tiles were £4k

Carport was separate to the above cost but a small fraction of it.

I could have built with brick but the issue was the back wall which for that length would have needed supports and I didn't want that inside or outside the structure. Additionally my grandfather had a wonderful old workshop where he kept his cars. it was 2 car sized with a few metres of walkaround space too so likely 6x6 or 8x8 and i remember fondly the smell of the old wood, creosote and Castrol R and wanted that more than I do a concrete thing.
Standing in the space i've created is wonderful. The wood smell is there (as is the old car smell) and the sense of space, volume and the light reflecting off the wood internals is lovely.

Oh and the brick option would have been more costly (not by much perhaps) and time consuming to install. After the slab was laid the garage was up and car-ready in a week.

Thanks

Lovely Alfa BTW

I currently have an old 6 car timber garage perhaps my thoughts are clouded by it as I've had issues with mice getting in for 10 yrs and this year, rats

Less of an issue if you just store cars in there but I have a lot of junk in there too so plenty of places to hide

My main concern is gnawing 240v or 12v cables and starting a fire -having lost a car that way previously

The joys of country living

I don't want to de rail the thread but I've tried everything - my dogs hate cats and have already run 2 off, they took up residence at a neighbouring farm

The best thing I've found to get rid of rats is the automatic air fresheners that squirt every 20 mins or so - they hate the smell

We had a pest control guy who came out when we had a mouse problem. He said if a hole is big enough that you can stick a Bic biro through it then a mouse can get through that too. Apparently they can dislocate their limbs and squeeze through something that small.

He also said the only sure way to keep mice away is to get a cat. We got a cat, the mice all left in 24hrs, never to return.

Now we have a cat problem.

I don't have a cat, but we have foxes, owls, sparrow hawks and red kites which helps keep them down a bit. I also have three of those mouse scarer things that emit a high pitched noise and a couple of mouse traps. It's been fine for several years now. It seems there's been a rat explosion this last year, I have heard of so many people getting them for the first time.