New Garage Build

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_Leg_

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210 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Hi all

My new garage build started today after 2 years pursuing the land and then a year trying to get planning.

This is a second garage block to compliment my main garages which are a triple with 2 car lifts (5 cars garaged in it).

Plans are below as are pictures of my current garage. Flat bed trailer is gone now and replaced by an RT4 and the fleet has expanded a bit (hence the new garages).

Ill update the thread with more info and pictures as it progresses. Each bay will have a 4 post lift in it.







































New garage build pics from today...














Greg_D

6,542 posts

245 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Excellent, subscribed, keep us updated

Output Flange

16,793 posts

210 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Super, look forward to seeing this progress.

Streetrod

6,468 posts

205 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Looks promising, but where is your house in relation to that garage as from the pics you appear to be in the middle of a fieldbiggrin

outnumbered

4,067 posts

233 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Surely up there in the "Who has the best garage on Pistonheads" thread, maybe even without the new addition !

_Leg_

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Thursday 22nd January 2015
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My house is the red brick/pan tile one with the garage block sticking out the back in the pictures.

You can see the green summer house between this land, that flows off the back of my garden, and the main house and garage. The summer house is coming down though to be replaced by new roofed decking with a bbq.

when finished the two gardens will merge and there'll be a path between garage 1 and garage 2. My moderns and daily will be in the original garage and my classics, collectibles and track car in 2.

Greg_D

6,542 posts

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Thursday 22nd January 2015
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_Leg_ said:
My house is the red brick/pan tile one with the garage block sticking out the back in the pictures.

You can see the green summer house between this land, that flows off the back of my garden, and the main house and garage. The summer house is coming down though to be replaced by new roofed decking with a bbq.

when finished the two gardens will merge and there'll be a path between garage 1 and garage 2. My moderns and daily will be in the original garage and my classics, collectibles and track car in 2.
basically........used and stored.

_Leg_

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Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Greg_D said:
basically........used and stored.
More 'used a lot, used a fair bit, used occasionally and one used rarely'. Oh and a couple of used and abused!



Edited by _Leg_ on Thursday 22 January 19:11

craig180

11 posts

137 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Epic. Just epic.

B17NNS

18,506 posts

246 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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cool looking forward to this biggrin

northernmedia

1,988 posts

137 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Cracking, I'll be watching this with interest.

grkify

366 posts

119 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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That looks ace!

Willeh85

760 posts

142 months

Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Amazing.

In a Wolf of Wall Street fashion, what do you do for a living? I will quit my job and work for you!

_Leg_

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Thursday 22nd January 2015
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Willeh85 said:
Amazing.

In a Wolf of Wall Street fashion, what do you do for a living? I will quit my job and work for you!
Lol, I did own, with a couple of partners, a software business which was (is) very successful. Sold it outright to a large software group last year and they offered us good money to stay on (and I have a great team of people in my part of the business who I consider good friends, Craig180 above is one of em the little lurker) so now I work for that business a bit, manage my investments & properties a bit, sleep in a bit, walk the dog, collect cars, hit the gym (which I didn't do for far too long) and finally spend time with my family (which I didn't do between 2000 and 2012 very much, even if I was physically there).

Today I've mostly been standing in a field annoying builders by watching them work and asking stupid questions. They wouldn't let me drive a digger. :-(

I make a mean cup of tea though they tell me, and I bought them buns, so I contributed a bit.


NotNormal

2,357 posts

213 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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Glad you've started a thread in here, really excited for you when I read your plans on the main garage thread in GG.

Watching with interest and love your passion, I think all us petrolheads would love to do something similar if we could smile

Edited by NotNormal on Friday 23 January 09:48

sagarich

1,210 posts

148 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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This is fantastic! Bookmarked!

mattyboy279

36 posts

204 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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Hi There,

I'm just about to start something very similar, I've got some (a lot) questions regarding the construction methods. Just started going through the planning process, but not sure weather to go block-work + weatherboard or stud work with weatherboard and insulated plasterboard. I don't want to end up with a damp and cold garage!

maxest

303 posts

217 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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sagarich said:
This is fantastic! Bookmarked!
Same.. in fact its the first thread on pistonheads that I have

Pixel-Snapper

5,321 posts

191 months

Friday 23rd January 2015
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I'm guessing the gravel road is access to the properties at the bottom of the road.

Will the garages be closed in for security?

Looking forward to watching this one grow... and the collection it will hold.

New go to thread in the making I think.

Also, what's your build time just out of interest... As I need to alter my diary wink

_Leg_

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Friday 23rd January 2015
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It's being built to house standards so that in 25 years time when I'm old and cant manage a load of cars I can convert it into a house and sell it along with mine and sod off abroad to drink G&T till I pass out forever.

I have access down the lane. Ill be resurfacing that when the build is finished as the tractor that removed 120 tons of earth today has destroyed it. Expected that though.

Yes, it will be fenced and beech hedged (to match the current garden hedge we have) down the left hand side. The other sides are enclosed already. It'll have 2 gates on the left. A manual one for the drive behind the garage where the trailer and my 4x4 will go and an electric one into the drive area in front of the garages.

Im planning on a full alarm system, lighting and CCTV.

More pictures to follow later. Good progress made today. Concrete foundations (1m deep) going in on Monday.

Expecting to be completed early April (We didnt get planning until the 7th Jan so the builder had to plan other jobs in just in case which I totally understand, otherwise we would be done faster). Bit frustrating because 3 of my cars are in storage (GT3RS, Mk2 Jag and Lotus Esprit) but I wouldnt let any other builder near my property regardless of timescales.

Edited by _Leg_ on Friday 23 January 18:47


Edited by _Leg_ on Friday 23 January 18:48