5.5m x 5.4m garage. Too small?
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AJLintern said:
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 
Trouble is, I wont know if it's working correctly until I check the results in April.
I just got a cheap action cam from Amazon for my time-lapse. It recorded one frame per minute and I downloaded the images from the card each night so I could check the footage. Obviously you have to remember to set it up again every morning, but at least you don't have to wait until the end to see if it worked!
A bit late, but to answer the original question my garage in 5.2m x 5.2m (inside measurements). It seemed reasonably large when I only had one car in there, but now I've got two cars in there it's extremely tight. I wouldn't bother building a new garage if I could only get 5.4m x 5.5m.
ten200 said:
A bit late, but to answer the original question my garage in 5.2m x 5.2m (inside measurements). It seemed reasonably large when I only had one car in there, but now I've got two cars in there it's extremely tight. I wouldn't bother building a new garage if I could only get 5.4m x 5.5m.
Ha, harsh!Depends on use, but its not a bad size. With the stuff down the side your cars would be a much better fit, if either xr was a classic, or for working on one car it's lovely and big.
- Just remembered the op has been able to revert, and it's now 6 x 6.5m
Edited by dhutch on Monday 3rd February 04:27
Word of advice for the OP: start looking into your garage door options NOW! I've just had a triple garage built and the doors have been the most problematic aspect. My opening sizes are as wide as I could get and a bit taller than average - this makes life "interesting" but the garage door suppliers are really bad at giving you all the required information.
For example: my middle door is wider than the outer ones. An up and over manufacturer couldn't make the wider door as tall as the outer doors, so their solution was to leave the middle door less tall and have a 120mm filler panel above the door. It would have looked crap and my drive-through height reduced, but I had to spot this on the proposal by digging into the measurements.
Another example: a sectional door supplier only provided fixed height sections, so their solution was to have half of the top section above the opening. As I'm having Georgian style doors with panels, this meant that the lintel would run through the middle of the section and the features. Again it would have looked crap.
Basically they all want to sell you their solution and don't tell you the compromises to make them fit. When I asked them originally about doors to fit my opening sizes they all said "yes we can fit those openings" but it wasn't until I checked all the minutiae that what they meant was "yes we can fit those openings but it will look crap".
In the end I spent a lot of time to understand exactly how these things are made so I could ensure exactly what I got and how it would look. I produced some design drawings to scale and got the supplier & manufacturer to sign off on them. I'm still waiting for the bloody things to arrive as they are a custom build.
If you have any flexibility on the opening sizes then I would advise talking to door suppliers now as your choices and installation may be considerably easier and cheaper if you have an opening size which conforms to their standard measurements.
You also need to decide whether to mount the doors between or behind the openings, and the door type itself, but that's a longer discussion.
For example: my middle door is wider than the outer ones. An up and over manufacturer couldn't make the wider door as tall as the outer doors, so their solution was to leave the middle door less tall and have a 120mm filler panel above the door. It would have looked crap and my drive-through height reduced, but I had to spot this on the proposal by digging into the measurements.
Another example: a sectional door supplier only provided fixed height sections, so their solution was to have half of the top section above the opening. As I'm having Georgian style doors with panels, this meant that the lintel would run through the middle of the section and the features. Again it would have looked crap.
Basically they all want to sell you their solution and don't tell you the compromises to make them fit. When I asked them originally about doors to fit my opening sizes they all said "yes we can fit those openings" but it wasn't until I checked all the minutiae that what they meant was "yes we can fit those openings but it will look crap".
In the end I spent a lot of time to understand exactly how these things are made so I could ensure exactly what I got and how it would look. I produced some design drawings to scale and got the supplier & manufacturer to sign off on them. I'm still waiting for the bloody things to arrive as they are a custom build.
If you have any flexibility on the opening sizes then I would advise talking to door suppliers now as your choices and installation may be considerably easier and cheaper if you have an opening size which conforms to their standard measurements.
You also need to decide whether to mount the doors between or behind the openings, and the door type itself, but that's a longer discussion.
Wozy68 said:
That shuttering looks a work of art (well on my phone screen at least)
I did my own ..... it worked but it was nowhere on the scale of that. I’m impressed
They've been working on the steelworks, Thursday, Friday and today.I did my own ..... it worked but it was nowhere on the scale of that. I’m impressed
It's back breaking work and as one of the guys just remarked "after tomorrow no one will ever see it."
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Arrived back in Suffolk late last night to find concrete laid as planned. The timber, steel and bricks arrive today, with construction beginning on Monday.
Seeing the pad gives me a better idea of size. I believe that a 6.5 x 6.0 garage will be perfect for our current and any future needs. But, it won't be too big for its position.
We'll only know for sure I suppose, when the roof goes on.
Seeing the pad gives me a better idea of size. I believe that a 6.5 x 6.0 garage will be perfect for our current and any future needs. But, it won't be too big for its position.
We'll only know for sure I suppose, when the roof goes on.
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