5.5m x 5.4m garage. Too small?

[Blib]

Here's the foundation to its full depth of 600mm. Piles not needed.

[Timbuktu]

Wozy68 said:

Blib said:

Thanks for that.

Each doorway is 2.3m wide. I don't plan to change anything. So, I shall report back when the thing's built and the cars are in.

Are you having hinged doors or something like a roller door?

If the former, 2.3 metres really isn't wide enough .... unless you're really careful IMO.

It sounds like I'm wasting my breath but I would urge you to reconsider door width.

Unless the width of the door is limited by the size of the structure I really don't know why would would want to make it more difficult to drive in and out of that it needs to be.

The cost of the door won't change very much but I would want every extra mm I could get.

[Blib]

I hear you. I'll speak with the architect and builder.

Thank you.

[Chucklehead]

My door opening in my double is 2.3m for a 2.134m (7') door opening.

For classics it's no problem, my Mustang goes in with ease. The Mini Clubman, personally I'd not let my wife park it. fking in mirrors and trying to work out what angle I'm coming in at is a pain in the hoop.

[dhutch]

Bigger doors, always good, so many garages have doors that are not large enough.

[Blib]

Re garage doors.

Here's the engineer's reply to my email on door width.

"Thanks for your email below. We were already struggling to justify the racking strength of the front of the garage, hence 11mm OSB on both faces of the studwork. However yes we could increase the opening size and design a steel post for reinforcement instead..........if so the minimum required width of the openings?"

So, what works, reasonably?

[Blib]

Update.

Engineer has redesigned the front of the garage to accommodate far wider doors.

Foundations have begun. I would post a couple of photos but they keep appearing 90 degrees out of kilter.

[usn90]

Composite Guru said:

My garage is 5m x 5m and everyone that has seen it thinks it's a good size. Plenty of room imo.
Looks like this with a Lotus Elise parked in it.

Edited by Composite Guru on Friday 29th November 09:51

What is that flooring?

[dhutch]

Blib said:

Update.

Engineer has redesigned the front of the garage to accommodate far wider doors.

Foundations have begun. I would post a couple of photos but they keep appearing 90 degrees out of kilter.

Excellent work.

Sideways photo are standard on this site, it's all to do with miss reading the metadata attached to the image, due to lack luster out of date photo hosting mess.

Daniel

[AJLintern]

Usually seems to work ok if the photo is resized to something reasonable and not too big file size. I think if uploaded directly from a phone that when problems occur.

[dhutch]

AJLintern said:

Usually seems to work ok if the photo is resized to something reasonable and not too big file size. I think if uploaded directly from a phone that when problems occur.

As said, it's due to miss reading the metadata in the exif. Most phones/cameras do not actually rotate the image when you rotate the phone, they instead store the orientation so the image viewer opens it correctly.

Unless it's an old or poorly written image viewer/editor which can't read orientation data.

Re-saving the image will often actually rotate the pixels, as will taking a screenshot of it the image, so these are work arounds for our 20yo forum software.


Daniel

[Blib]

I've resized the images and they're still wrong.

I'll try again later.

[Blib]

Yay! The screenshot tip worked. Thank you.

6.5m x 6.0m

[Blib]

Now waiting on concrete. There's a shortage in our part of the world as a local plant has partially closed in order to undergo refurbishment to support a proposed power station.

So, small builders, such as our contractor, have to scrap for a place in the delivery queue.

[mike9009]

Not sure what doors you are going for, but...

Our second house had a small 1970s garage. It was short and narrow. My MK1 MR2 would just fit. I installed thick pile carpet on the walls too protect the doors.

My VX220 would fit, but the up and over garage door would not close without hitting the car. A roller door or doors opening outwards would have worked though.

It might make a difference.

We now have a different house with a large sliding (stable) door. But the garage is full of someone else's 'junk'. Just waiting for it all to be moved to reinvigorate the garage back into it true purpose....

Good luck


Mike

[Blib]

Thank you. Our builder tells me that he can provide whatever we need. So, we'll go with as wide as we can get.

[Composite Guru]

usn90 said:

Composite Guru said:

My garage is 5m x 5m and everyone that has seen it thinks it's a good size. Plenty of room imo.
Looks like this with a Lotus Elise parked in it.

Edited by Composite Guru on Friday 29th November 09:51

What is that flooring?

It is Coba PVC tiles from Screwfix. They were £20 sq mtr when I bought them 2 years ago. They are now double that.

Costco have some similar Klikflor ones for £25 sq mtr at the mo.

[Blib]

Work is coming on. Steel ties today and Monday, with a concrete pour on Tuesday. Sadly, I'll be in London that day, so I'll miss it.

[Timbuktu]

Might be a good idea to add some bracing to that shuttering just in case - the last thing you'd want is it failing!

Admittedly this may have been slight overkill...

Edited by Timbuktu on Friday 31st January 18:14

[AJLintern]

Blib said:

Sadly, I'll be in London that day, so I'll miss it.

Set up an old phone as an ip camera and view it remotely? (Assuming you have a view of the proceedings from a window in your house) That's what I did to check progress on my build while I was at work