Our Victorian/industrial/canalside new build thread...

[It's fixable...]

Loving this project - just a quick question about the back gable of the garage - you said you wanted to store long things in there, but no high level access door in the rear gable to let you lean them up against the back of the garage and then draw them in from inside? No trying to be a smart arse just wondering why no door....

[Hard-Drive]

It's fixable... said:

Loving this project - just a quick question about the back gable of the garage - you said you wanted to store long things in there, but no high level access door in the rear gable to let you lean them up against the back of the garage and then draw them in from inside? No trying to be a smart arse just wondering why no door....

That's a fair point and in hindsight we could have done it. To be honest though, the only really long stuff that will go up there is probably dinghy sails, and rolled up they are flexible enough to go through a standard loft style hatch.

[timnoyce]

It's a bloody impressive Garage. Can't wait to see the whole build finished!

[Hard-Drive]

More progress...up to wall plate height now on the house. Roof trusses now in despite the wind and the gable ends are taking shape. Brick arches in place above all the upstairs windows. Fingers crossed for the roof to be finished by the end of November, and the house to be watertight by Christmas.

View from the road...



Front of the house. The blue brick bases either side of the front door will be for the supporting posts for the porch canopy.



Back view...

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Side view...



Teleporter for getting the materials up high...



First floor joists from the kitchen looking up through the master bedroom...



iPhone pano view from the scaffolding on the side of the house, which will also be the view from the main bathroom and the ensuite. Going to throw caution to the winds and we're just having plain, not frosted glass. We can always apply a privacy film on the onside of the glass if needed.



Hard to see it now but this will one day be the back garden. We dug half of it out flat, and the gradient change will be retained by gabian baskets sunk into the ground following the slope. This "wall" will run out of shot to the left, before running down the side of the house for 30 metres. The upside down boat is in our very tumbled down barn...and will be the "going to the pub boat" at some point!

[chrisga]

Good work, I reckon you'll be finished before us!
Oh and congrats to your builders/roofers for actually putting some diagonal bracing between your trusses. They kind of forgot those on the new build at the end of our road and on Tuesday afternoon ended up with this mess:

2015-11-18 10.06.57 by Chrisga, on Flickr

Trusses dominoed and the brick gable which had been built up full height ended up on the neighbours property..... Whoops....

[Hard-Drive]

^Yikes! That's a bit of a nightmare...but it has been seriously windy!

I started messing around with a basic CAD program called Floorplanner tonight just to plan the garage. It has some limitations, for example the car changes colour if you switch from 2d to 3d renders, but it gives me an idea of the layout and I now know which "BiGDUG" storage units to order! Another issue is the row of very high, but very short wheelbase bikes which are actually representing the space taken up by vertically hanging bikes but you get the idea. The generic tractor, rowing boat and Ferrari are actually a Countax ride-on mower, Fireball sailing dinghy and a Porsche Boxster, to scale. So there's plenty room, and for most of the time the boat won't be there.

I want to do the floor in those black vinyl interlocking floor tiles, but they are eye-wateringly expensive...reckon it's going to be circa £850 to do. Anyone know of any cheaper alternatives?

[anonymous-user]

Replace the Boxster with an Evora and that is my dream garage!

[ndg]

This link used to take me to some fairly cheap black (only) tiles. Web site seems to be having problems right now though.
http://www.endurancemats.com/products-page/industr...

£15/m2 isn't too bad either:
http://plasfloor.co.uk

[Hard-Drive]

Or, with a bit of jiggery pokery I can fit my 50 year old Flying Fifteen keelboat in there too...



I rescued this boat off the sailing club bonfire pile as a total basket case a few years ago and spent ages rebuilding/redecking her...she's all wood and although she ended up looking like this after the rebuild, the past few winters outside have not been kind to the varnish and she badly needs to get indoors and under cover.

[VX Foxy]

Nice! Where do you sail?

[sealtt]

Fantastic!

[ndg]

They've now sorted their site (or it isn't mobile device friendly). Here's the link for black floor tiles at £12/sqm
http://www.endurancemats.com/product/interlocking-...

Nice boat BTW!

[MKnight702]

You can get the USB plugs in the UK, I've got them in the new kitchen.

[Garybee]

Just seen this thread...

What a fantastic plot, about as nice a setting as I've seen. Looks to be coming on well, please keep the thread updated.

[Hard-Drive]

VX Foxy said:

Nice! Where do you sail?

Thanks! Draycote Water.

ndg said:

They've now sorted their site (or it isn't mobile device friendly). Here's the link for black floor tiles at £12/sqm
http://www.endurancemats.com/product/interlocking-...

Thanks for that! They seem really competitive...talking about being in the fives rather than the eights of hundreds quids to do it, save a bit on delivery too as they are just down the road from me in Coventry, so I will definitely go for the flooring. If I don't do it now, before I start filling the garage with stuff, I know it will just never happen.

MKnight702 said:

You can get the USB plugs in the UK, I've got them in the new kitchen.

Cool...do you know if your USB ports are also switched (as well as the 240v three pin), as that seemed to be a deal breaker earlier in the thread?

Garybee said:

Just seen this thread...

What a fantastic plot, about as nice a setting as I've seen. Looks to be coming on well, please keep the thread updated.

Thanks!

Edited by Hard-Drive on Monday 23 November 22:18

[Craikeybaby]

I didn't realise you were local!

It is worth looking at those Endurance mats floor tiles, I wasn't overly impressed with the quality compared to something like Mototile.

[MrBig]

Craikeybaby said:

I didn't realise you were local!

It is worth looking at those Endurance mats floor tiles, I wasn't overly impressed with the quality compared to something like Mototile.

Is that the place down by Tollbar? Keep meaning to go and have a look at their product, but every fibre of my being wants to avoid that sodding roundabout at the moment!

[Craikeybaby]

Yes, that's the one.

6 years of commuting through that roundabout was enough for me to move to Coventry!

[CharlesdeGaulle]

Hard-Drive said:

roofer said:

Quality Brickie

Yep, the brickie has done a great job.

Great thread.

What makes good brickwork? Is it the regularity and consistency, or something else?

[Hard-Drive]

Craikeybaby said:

I didn't realise you were local!

It is worth looking at those Endurance mats floor tiles, I wasn't overly impressed with the quality compared to something like Mototile.

Cheers for the tip...I'll go and have a look before handing over the cash, but they reckon they've just done a Mercedes dealer with them, so they can't be too shoddy. Also, as they are 25% cheaper than elsewhere, that's a big saving over what is a big garage, and it's going to be a lot better than a painted concrete floor. And bear in mind that I've never had a garage before!

CharlesdeGaulle said:

What makes good brickwork? Is it the regularity and consistency, or something else?

I'm no expert, but yes, it's all dead straight and regular, and the "details" are very well executed IMHO. The corbeling (sticky out bits) at the top of the walls, and the bits at the top of the gable ends are all very precise, as are the brick arches which are apparently easy to get wrong. And the pointing is very neat too...there's no excess mortar anywhere, and the teeny bit that has ended up falling down onto the blue plinth base is apparently going to be cleaned up by some wonder acid stuff that will bring them up like a shotgun barrel.

The thread has been updated in "real time" as it were, and all the red bricks have basically been laid by just one guy in that time. The others have been doing other things on the house including the blockwork, woodwork etc and keeping him supplied with bricks and mortar, but it's amazing just how fast he works. Nice chap too, I think it really helps to be able to go and have a chat and strike up some friendships with the guys who are building our home.