Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads?
Discussion
Doofus said:
Accelebrate said:
Yes, but not on this thread, and apart from the garage, everything about it is f
king horrible.Which explains why it's been for sale for several years.
There are few for whom such a garage would appeal I’d suggest.
acme said:
Doofus said:
Accelebrate said:
Yes, but not on this thread, and apart from the garage, everything about it is fking horrible.Which explains why it's been for sale for several years.
There are few for whom such a garage would appeal I’d suggest.
Accelebrate said:
Money certainly can't buy taste!!!!I am pretty sure you are still allowed to re-decorate the inside of a house to your own taste once you complete the purchase.
Agreed the outside isn’t pretty but it is a large and impressive house that could be softened with a clever designer.
I would love that garage though to keep a big fleet of cars in.
Agreed the outside isn’t pretty but it is a large and impressive house that could be softened with a clever designer.
I would love that garage though to keep a big fleet of cars in.
Caddyshack said:
I am pretty sure you are still allowed to re-decorate the inside of a house to your own taste once you complete the purchase.
Agreed the outside isn’t pretty but it is a large and impressive house that could be softened with a clever designer.
I would love that garage though to keep a big fleet of cars in.
Come on man, it's not impressive. It looks like Sevenoaks railway station! As for the underground car park it's not a garage - set your standards higher! Agreed the outside isn’t pretty but it is a large and impressive house that could be softened with a clever designer.
I would love that garage though to keep a big fleet of cars in.
Quick question for those who bought garages with inadequate wiring - did you do electrical work yourself?
Mine is currently fitted with a fuse box, 1x socket and 1x crappy light bulb. My plan is to replace it with a new RCD'd consumer unit, fit a ring mains with 4x double sockets and a separate lighting circuit. It's wired through an armoured cable, with junction boxes etc, the only bit I'd need help with is replacing the wiring from CU to the start of the armoured cable - it's currently 20A.
Reading lots of scare stories about Part P non-compliance making things painful in future are off-putting, but spending £££ on such a simple job would be a right pain. I'm happy enough doing simple electrics myself, and something like this is straight-forward enough for me to do with no worries.
Mine is currently fitted with a fuse box, 1x socket and 1x crappy light bulb. My plan is to replace it with a new RCD'd consumer unit, fit a ring mains with 4x double sockets and a separate lighting circuit. It's wired through an armoured cable, with junction boxes etc, the only bit I'd need help with is replacing the wiring from CU to the start of the armoured cable - it's currently 20A.
Reading lots of scare stories about Part P non-compliance making things painful in future are off-putting, but spending £££ on such a simple job would be a right pain. I'm happy enough doing simple electrics myself, and something like this is straight-forward enough for me to do with no worries.
Petrolism said:
A few from our garage at home. Not as big as I'd dreamt of, but it's great to finally have a place to work on projects in relative comfort.
Getting more work done than I used to!
I'd forgotten just how much I love the SP1/2.Getting more work done than I used to!
Remember reading about it on the Speedhunters article. Lovely, lovely thing.
RichB said:
Caddyshack said:
I am pretty sure you are still allowed to re-decorate the inside of a house to your own taste once you complete the purchase.
Agreed the outside isn’t pretty but it is a large and impressive house that could be softened with a clever designer.
I would love that garage though to keep a big fleet of cars in.
Come on man, it's not impressive. It looks like Sevenoaks railway station! As for the underground car park it's not a garage - set your standards higher! Agreed the outside isn’t pretty but it is a large and impressive house that could be softened with a clever designer.
I would love that garage though to keep a big fleet of cars in.
A few bike ramps on one side with a machine shop at the end.
Some decent benches and a painting area.
It's got load of potential, just let down by a particularly cheesy house on top of it.
I am glad you two had the same sort of vision as I did for the Chinzy house.
When I bought my current house it had a leaky 5 birth bolt together "marley" concrete garage but I was able to get the planners to agree to re-using the footprint and a little extra. I now have 4 and a bit car bays with a proper workshop ramp and then a double length workshop with lathe and tools on the side and a nice office, kitchen and shower room on top.
The workshop is hidden in the Laurel hedge.
Here you can see the ramps that sink in to the floor when not in use
When I bought my current house it had a leaky 5 birth bolt together "marley" concrete garage but I was able to get the planners to agree to re-using the footprint and a little extra. I now have 4 and a bit car bays with a proper workshop ramp and then a double length workshop with lathe and tools on the side and a nice office, kitchen and shower room on top.
The workshop is hidden in the Laurel hedge.
Edited by Caddyshack on Thursday 1st November 10:49
Here you can see the ramps that sink in to the floor when not in use
Edited by Caddyshack on Thursday 1st November 10:57
Hi Caddyshack
Looks like a nice space.
What's the internal height of your garage? Getting ideas for a potential garage rebuild on a house we haven't put an offer on - and getting a feel for how much of a lift height I could get in - I can do a bit of expansion under permitted development, but that has height restrictions...
Looks like a nice space.
What's the internal height of your garage? Getting ideas for a potential garage rebuild on a house we haven't put an offer on - and getting a feel for how much of a lift height I could get in - I can do a bit of expansion under permitted development, but that has height restrictions...
zippyonline said:
Hi Caddyshack
Looks like a nice space.
What's the internal height of your garage? Getting ideas for a potential garage rebuild on a house we haven't put an offer on - and getting a feel for how much of a lift height I could get in - I can do a bit of expansion under permitted development, but that has height restrictions...
ThanksLooks like a nice space.
What's the internal height of your garage? Getting ideas for a potential garage rebuild on a house we haven't put an offer on - and getting a feel for how much of a lift height I could get in - I can do a bit of expansion under permitted development, but that has height restrictions...
I will have to measure it for you but the simple answer is not that high. The strongman lift does not go all that high but it is certainly big / high enough to completely rebuild a car. I managed to get a Skyline gearbox in to that 205 pictured. It does help if you can get a builder to sink the ramps in to the floor. I also left a channel in the floor which gains another 10 cm.
I can easily work under the car and I have a stool on wheels with an office chair type adjustment on it to make life comfortable and you can obviously lay under the car and sort of waddle around under there. It makes it so much safer and easier than jacks and axle stands that I used to use.
Caddyshack said:
I am glad you two had the same sort of vision as I did for the Chinzy house.
When I bought my current house it had a leaky 5 birth bolt together "marley" concrete garage but I was able to get the planners to agree to re-using the footprint and a little extra. I now have 4 and a bit car bays with a proper workshop ramp and then a double length workshop with lathe and tools on the side and a nice office, kitchen and shower room on top.
Here you can see the ramps that sink in to the floor when not in use|https://thumbsnap.com/DU4jDNqu[/url]
That's ace, its like a second house in the garden! Presumably the access was from the house side before, but now in through the short end?When I bought my current house it had a leaky 5 birth bolt together "marley" concrete garage but I was able to get the planners to agree to re-using the footprint and a little extra. I now have 4 and a bit car bays with a proper workshop ramp and then a double length workshop with lathe and tools on the side and a nice office, kitchen and shower room on top.
Here you can see the ramps that sink in to the floor when not in use
|https://thumbsnap.com/DU4jDNqu[/url]Would love to get something like that built in place of the 1950 double I have, but for now I am very happy with just a dry indoor space for the kitcar!
Daniel
Oddly the access has always been on the short end, the previous owner used to park 4 cars, 2 side by side and in front of each other then a parallel parked 5th to block them in. I made it a little shorter but wider and then added the workshop.
Glad you all like it.
I will do a build thread on the Pug soon. It has a 2.2 Stroker Cossied YB that was mapped to 710 bhp but I am dropping that to 630 bhp with a smaller turbo. I drove it with 469bhp and 500ftlb and it was bonkers and able to spin all 4 wheels.
I am just having a full WRC style cage, WRC rear cradle and front WRC cross member fitted all in lightweight T45 steel. The bonnet, doors and boot are Carbon fibre.
Glad you all like it.
I will do a build thread on the Pug soon. It has a 2.2 Stroker Cossied YB that was mapped to 710 bhp but I am dropping that to 630 bhp with a smaller turbo. I drove it with 469bhp and 500ftlb and it was bonkers and able to spin all 4 wheels.
I am just having a full WRC style cage, WRC rear cradle and front WRC cross member fitted all in lightweight T45 steel. The bonnet, doors and boot are Carbon fibre.
Caddyshack said:
Oddly the access has always been on the short end, the previous owner used to park 4 cars, 2 side by side and in front of each other then a parallel parked 5th to block them in. I made it a little shorter but wider and then added the workshop.
Glad you all like it.
I will do a build thread on the Pug soon. It has a 2.2 Stroker Cossied YB that was mapped to 710 bhp but I am dropping that to 630 bhp with a smaller turbo. I drove it with 469bhp and 500ftlb and it was bonkers and able to spin all 4 wheels.
I am just having a full WRC style cage, WRC rear cradle and front WRC cross member fitted all in lightweight T45 steel. The bonnet, doors and boot are Carbon fibre.
Garage looks great, the 205 even better Glad you all like it.
I will do a build thread on the Pug soon. It has a 2.2 Stroker Cossied YB that was mapped to 710 bhp but I am dropping that to 630 bhp with a smaller turbo. I drove it with 469bhp and 500ftlb and it was bonkers and able to spin all 4 wheels.
I am just having a full WRC style cage, WRC rear cradle and front WRC cross member fitted all in lightweight T45 steel. The bonnet, doors and boot are Carbon fibre.
Krikkit said:
Quick question for those who bought garages with inadequate wiring - did you do electrical work yourself?
Mine is currently fitted with a fuse box, 1x socket and 1x crappy light bulb. My plan is to replace it with a new RCD'd consumer unit, fit a ring mains with 4x double sockets and a separate lighting circuit. It's wired through an armoured cable, with junction boxes etc, the only bit I'd need help with is replacing the wiring from CU to the start of the armoured cable - it's currently 20A.
Reading lots of scare stories about Part P non-compliance making things painful in future are off-putting, but spending £££ on such a simple job would be a right pain. I'm happy enough doing simple electrics myself, and something like this is straight-forward enough for me to do with no worries.
Do the wiring yourself. Follow the regs to the letter then get someone out to do a part p inspection and sign off?Mine is currently fitted with a fuse box, 1x socket and 1x crappy light bulb. My plan is to replace it with a new RCD'd consumer unit, fit a ring mains with 4x double sockets and a separate lighting circuit. It's wired through an armoured cable, with junction boxes etc, the only bit I'd need help with is replacing the wiring from CU to the start of the armoured cable - it's currently 20A.
Reading lots of scare stories about Part P non-compliance making things painful in future are off-putting, but spending £££ on such a simple job would be a right pain. I'm happy enough doing simple electrics myself, and something like this is straight-forward enough for me to do with no worries.
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