Timber Garage Installation

Timber Garage Installation

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Gramrugby

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543 posts

207 months

Wednesday 24th September 2014
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Anyone have any experience of having a timber garage built in the NE Scotland. I'm considering having one built, large size
and would appreciate anyones experience of supplier / installer.

James B

1,301 posts

243 months

Wednesday 24th September 2014
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We used Deeside Log Cabins (Kincardine O'Neil just outside Aberdeen) for an outbuilding at my grandmother's house in St Andrews. They were excellent and made a first class installation. If their garages are of similar quality then I would say they're worthy of a recommendation.

Gramrugby

Original Poster:

543 posts

207 months

Wednesday 24th September 2014
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Thanks James. I know the company you mean as I live fairly local to them. I am looking for a substantial build
not just a very large shed type building that most companies seem to provide. Was that the type of construction
your grandmother had done for her ?

James B

1,301 posts

243 months

Wednesday 24th September 2014
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She had a large log cabin placed in her garden. It's probably 8m x 4m so quite sizeable.

McWigglebum4th

32,414 posts

203 months

Wednesday 24th September 2014
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We are dealing with these guys and they seem quite good

http://forestlogcabins.com/Home.html

Gramrugby

Original Poster:

543 posts

207 months

Thursday 25th September 2014
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I had a look at their place last Sunday and they do seem to be the best I've seen. If you've been there the large garage which they use as a gym & recording
studio is the sort of building I'm interested in. Should be able to hold 4 cars plus a workshop and office. Looks like taht's where I'll be going. Plus they
are onle a few miles away from us.

Thanks

leefee

633 posts

128 months

Thursday 25th September 2014
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I am near banchory and got a local guy to build me a 40ft x 20ft shed in timber, he supplied wood and built and erected it for about £5k, when i have another i will do the same, its serious heavy duty. Very happy with it.

Gramrugby

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543 posts

207 months

Friday 26th September 2014
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Thanks for that. I have sent you a personal email.

smgEsprit

28 posts

174 months

Friday 26th September 2014
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If you want something properly substantial you could just get a local contractor (and there are plenty good ones around Deeside) to build something for you. You would need drawings from an architecture firm, but you will likely need these anyway for planning/building warrant purposes.

A 4-car garage with workshop and office built on proper foundations with a timber clad engineered 140mm timber frame with attic trusses and a slate roof would likely be in the region of £40-50K, plus VAT and fees.

Probably a good bit more expensive than the semi-prefabricated log cabins etc, but the final product would be a whole different thing.

Scott

Dr_Rick

1,592 posts

247 months

Friday 26th September 2014
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I know you're looking in the NE, and I was in the Central Belt, but I'm putting this out there as another option. I sourced a timber kit (bespoke size) from a company down south for a triple garage with room above. I then had a local groundworks team built the foundations and a local joiner put the whole thing together for me. He also built some of the components for me cheaper than the kit company, namely the external staircase and the windows. We also had the gable end custom glazed. I then used a local architect firm to pull together the BW drawings and I dealt with the Planning Application personally.

In the interests of full disclosure, the kit company weren't the best at customer relations and did make a hash of a couple of elements. Some were fixed, others weren't. But in the end, I got a triple garage of a size I wanted. I then sold the house and probably lost most of the investment due to the short turn around between finishing and selling (long term investment and all that).

The photos show it nearly completed, there were still a few rough edges to deal with like fireboarding the garage ceiling for BW purposes, sorting the landscape around the garage, plus the final furnishing of the room (office). But you get the idea. Size wise, each bay was set to be 6m deep and 2.9m wide.














bigblock

772 posts

197 months

Friday 26th September 2014
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If it is something really large you want then a portal framed building would be the cheapest way to go and then you could wood clad it to get the look you want.





leefee

633 posts

128 months

Friday 26th September 2014
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Thats my "rustic" 40x20 shed. 7 decent sized cars when mrs leefee hasn't got it full of house stuff. wink