Wooden Garages

[Bitter'n'twisted]

Have bought a new house which is great.
It has a nice big garden as well. Half acre.
But what it doesn't have is a nice luxury apartment for the TVR to live in. ie it doesn't have a garage.

At the moment I am thinking to buy one of those wooden garages that you can get for roughly between £3k and £10k. You build the concrete base yourself, and then the company that makes the garage comes round and does the rest.

Has anyone gone this route before? Any recommendations? Or is it better to try to just buy a load of wood and build the thing myself?

Thanks in advance to anyone who has strayed onto this thread and has any good ideas.

[DrDeAtH]

you could build it yourself, your only real contraints being time, skill level and quantity of tools.

with the manufactured garage, 2 days after they come to install, you can park in it.... job done

[davidy]

I've used Warwick Buildings in the past, very recommended and often do discounts for January installs.

At this time of year make sure the concrete base has enough time to dry out, otherwise the garage will sweat when its first put up (my mistake), a bit of mould appeared on the walls. The following year this had all gone.

I paid around £3.5K for the garage (20ft x 20ft) erected on my concrete base (which cost about £3K as I had quite a lot of groundworks to do and put in a new short concrete drive. This was about 5 years ago.

Hope that helps

davidy

[gtr-gaz]

Build one yourself!
Ready made ones are a bit like B+Q sheds, they use the cheapest, thinest wood they can get away with.

I build mine myself from scratch. Very easy to do. Just need a shed load (no pun intended) of feather edge boarding and 4"x2" tan.

[victormeldrew]

Yup, done exactly that. Moved next door to get a larger lot, then put in a new drive and a 32' Warwick Buildings wooden garage at the end of it. Well, 24' garage plus 8' workshop. Cost about £3k, seven years ago. I did the concrete base myself, and the driveway was block paved along with the original drive and all the paths, so no idea how much that cost. I knocked down a section of the 6ft wall around the garden, built piers at the cut ends, and installed gates I made from the decking the missus changed her mind about the year before!

If you go that route make sure you get the concrete base level. Mine was slightly out, as the concrete was delivered a touch dry and went off before we got to the end of it. It was a huge pad though, 32' x 12', 6" deep. I also dug out a pit, and the concrete was laid into the sides of that too. Its all reenforced with steel gridwork.

Actual erection of the garage takes a few hours. I recommend you get the fetl "tiled" roof, it costs a little more but it looks a lot nicer.

Edited to add - its nothing like a B&Q shed! My parents wanted to move in when it was put up. The wood is substantial, its all properly treated, its not feather edge (yuk), and its all lined. I doubt you'd be able to buy the timber for an equivalent price, unless you know someone in the trade.


>> Edited by victormeldrew on Tuesday 13th December 17:31

[rolyrat]

If you build it yourself, just remember to measure the car with the drivers door open. you dont want to have to push it in every night!

[Fallon]

davidy said:

I've used Warwick Buildings in the past, very recommended and often do discounts for January installs. At this time of year make sure the concrete base has enough time to dry out, otherwise the garage will sweat when its first put up (my mistake), a bit of mould appeared on the walls. The following year this had all gone. I paid around £3.5K for the garage (20ft x 20ft) erected on my concrete base (which cost about £3K as I had quite a lot of groundworks to do and put in a new short concrete drive. This was about 5 years ago. Hope that helps davidy

top company - highly recommended. Even changed the order at the very last minute without complaint when *someone* (no, it wasn't me!) discovered we'd ordered the wrong size for the concrete base.