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I couldn't be much more excited than if I'd bought a new car: the car moves into its new garage tomorrow 
. I was kindly offered one for rent by a local trader -- he said I was obviously the sort of chap who looked after his car so since he had a garage spare he'd let me use it: what a hero!
No more parking on the street, so no more buckled bonnet hinges or resprays every ten minutes due to the Newton's Cradle school of parking, no more leaks, weather damage...
. I was kindly offered one for rent by a local trader -- he said I was obviously the sort of chap who looked after his car so since he had a garage spare he'd let me use it: what a hero! No more parking on the street, so no more buckled bonnet hinges or resprays every ten minutes due to the Newton's Cradle school of parking, no more leaks, weather damage...
Manek,
We know exactly where you're coming from on this one! Our Chimaera lives on the street on what is rapidly turning into a rat run in Catford....cue shredded nerves. Oh to have a driveway...or even a garage. Imagine that.
Suddenly moving house for the sake of the car is a possibility...
Alex & Ian
Chimaera 450
We know exactly where you're coming from on this one! Our Chimaera lives on the street on what is rapidly turning into a rat run in Catford....cue shredded nerves. Oh to have a driveway...or even a garage. Imagine that.
Suddenly moving house for the sake of the car is a possibility...
Alex & Ian
Chimaera 450
Ah.... this is where my ex-wife (no. 2) did me a favour: I went to the estate agents with my 'divorce' settlement and asked for a small house with a large garage. I got a one-roomed rabbit hutch, complete with a garage 30 feet by 9, remote controlled roller shutter, bars on the window, hot and cold running damp and the largest variety of spiders outside of a Fiat museum. Bliss. I have room for lots of benches, tool chests, engine crane, lathe, milling machine (soon!)... oh, and a TVR.
However, there is a price to pay. The house is so 'cozy' it pays to be as matey as a submariner. If you take a dump, the person making tea can lean in and wipe your botty. No point in having an intercom; two cups and a length of string will do.
I heard someone trying the door the other night; it was the door of number 2. I live in 40. Etc. etc....
;-)
W.
However, there is a price to pay. The house is so 'cozy' it pays to be as matey as a submariner. If you take a dump, the person making tea can lean in and wipe your botty. No point in having an intercom; two cups and a length of string will do.
I heard someone trying the door the other night; it was the door of number 2. I live in 40. Etc. etc....
;-)
W.
Did I tell you about the story of the garage whose roof failed due to rot caused by the recent excessive water. Joists gave way providing the car with a perfect covering of ex-roof. The dust did a pretty good job of sand blasting the bodywork which saved some money on the re-spray.
I'm sure that isn't going to happen but you might want to consider reinforcing the roof just in case...
Sounds a great improvement though!
Steve
I'm sure that isn't going to happen but you might want to consider reinforcing the roof just in case...
Sounds a great improvement though!
Steve
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Suddenly moving house for the sake of the car is a possibility...
Absolutely. We only have a single garage. We're moving so both our cars can sleep cosy at night. Going to cost me the price of a Porsche 996 Turbo to upgrade the house...WHAT AM I DOING!!!!
Don't think the bank would let me pay for the Turbo over 20 years.....
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I couldn't be much more excited than if I'd bought a new car: the car moves into its new garage tomorrow ...
Hey Manek. Don't do what I did.. When I park in my garage I get closer to brickwork etc than I get to anything else (out on the street don't you head for the quietest spot around, furthest from everything?). First time in I nerfed the back wall with the nose. What a dork.
The problem with having a garage is that once you've spent an afternoon polishing your baby, you get reluctant to take it out again incase you lose the shine!
Great news tho!
AF
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I went to the estate agents with my 'divorce' settlement and asked for a small house with a large garage. I got a one-roomed rabbit hutch, complete with a garage 30 feet by 9
Mine was almost identical I ended up buying a little cottage on an old farm development (big farm house, couple of barn conversions, plus a little row of peasant farm workers cottages) The cottage was two up two down and even the cat complained it was too small. But the garage in the courtyard was an old tractor garage it actually had more floor space than the house and the guy who lived there before had spent more time "doing up" the garage than the house to the degree it looked like an F1 car should be parked in it. Oh it was bliss !!!!!! I then got re married had a house built and had the luck of specing a 2 1/2 car garage with pitch roof and a loft converstion, (well you have to be extreme sometimes
) Garages you can't do without them and in my book rate number 3 in life after bikes and cars.
quote:And get yourself a cork or table tennis ball to hang on a piece of string from the ceiling such that it just touches your windscreen when the car is in the correct position in the garage.
Now I'm off to the carpet shop to beg some offcuts for those paintwork/brick wall interface issues.
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And get yourself a cork or table tennis ball to hang on a piece of string from the ceiling such that it just touches your windscreen when the car is in the correct position in the garage.
I have a yellow plastic iron in mine. Does the job very well.
Trouble is the guilt trip as it reminds me I've been neglecting the chores about the house...
>> Edited by angusfaldo on Friday 31st May 10:18
I'm having an office and garage built on the side of my house up to my boundary soon. Clearly the garage is far more important than a load of cupboards and filing cabinets so would like to know the optimum width for a 'single' garage for a Chimaera being able to park near one wall and completly open a door. What's left can be office.
I know Steve covers this in the bible but wondered if anyone has any practical experience?
I know Steve covers this in the bible but wondered if anyone has any practical experience?
I have an 'integral' single garage, which means after 2 hours of tiring wrist action I can walk down the hall way, stop, open the door and admire my handy work from the comfort of the house - great. As they say - simple things..... However I wish it was wider to aid access, I have enlisted the help of a large piece of 'bubble' wrap in the mean time. Wish I had a 2 1/2 car garage like my parents (with electric door of course) - you can drive in that thing blind with no fear of hitting anything.
Choose a nice house, choose a nice car, choose 'piece of mind',..........choose a garage
Choose a nice house, choose a nice car, choose 'piece of mind',..........choose a garage
My criteria when buying my (first) house were 'large garage with attached house'.
Managed to find a place built half into a hillside. In effect if a small 2 bed bungalow built on top of a garage(/workshop/storage) - they have the same plan area!
Most of the garage is underground, so secure, warm in winter, cool in summer and surprisingly dry. I have never been happier
But female friend saw it and said "you could get a couple more bedrooms down here"! Women...
I really don't know why developers don't build more small houses with big garages, instead of leaving them the preserve of 4 or 5 bedroom places.
Cheers, Phil
Managed to find a place built half into a hillside. In effect if a small 2 bed bungalow built on top of a garage(/workshop/storage) - they have the same plan area!
Most of the garage is underground, so secure, warm in winter, cool in summer and surprisingly dry. I have never been happier
But female friend saw it and said "you could get a couple more bedrooms down here"! Women...
I really don't know why developers don't build more small houses with big garages, instead of leaving them the preserve of 4 or 5 bedroom places.
Cheers, Phil
It was only when I found this
www.homestore.com/CarGarage/Garage/Default.asp
and posted it, I realised i'd joined a discussion about garages!
Good tip with the dangling cork, plastic iron, ex-partner though!!
www.homestore.com/CarGarage/Garage/Default.asp
and posted it, I realised i'd joined a discussion about garages!
Good tip with the dangling cork, plastic iron, ex-partner though!!
Manek, congrats on the garage. Have you got light/power in there? A trickle charger might be handy for when you're away (I know you use the car a lot normally).
We recently moved and my criteria was to upgrade from single garage with leccy door to a double ... girlfriend went looking at the bathroom fittings and I got my tape measure out and went into the garage. I'm happy now, we've got an 'oversize' double with leccy doors (oh, the house is OK too ... paid the price of a TVR in stamp duty though, robbing g1ts). I'm looking forward to spending this weekend painting it out and sealing the floor, then getting some decent cabinets in. (The girlfriend doesn't yet realise that all the contents of the garage are going in the dining room until they get sorted (mostly her junk still packed from 2 housemoves ago.))
T/.
We recently moved and my criteria was to upgrade from single garage with leccy door to a double ... girlfriend went looking at the bathroom fittings and I got my tape measure out and went into the garage. I'm happy now, we've got an 'oversize' double with leccy doors (oh, the house is OK too ... paid the price of a TVR in stamp duty though, robbing g1ts). I'm looking forward to spending this weekend painting it out and sealing the floor, then getting some decent cabinets in. (The girlfriend doesn't yet realise that all the contents of the garage are going in the dining room until they get sorted (mostly her junk still packed from 2 housemoves ago.))
T/.
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