Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads?

[dhutch]

uk66fastback said:

Not at all - language evolves ...

How very dare it!

Now what we're we talking about, garages I believe!


Daniel

[slipstream 1985]

This is my project start to almost finished, still got internal walls and electricity to complete then seal the floor and finaly gravel/ chuckies


















A pipe came off the lorry here lucky no one was standing there.



ready for concrete floor


polished concrete finish


test to make sure it was big enough.... yes it was.





Very tight gap to get this offloaded betweeen the pole and the house.


Doesn't seem alot of stuff






looks small but it is actually 36 foot deep

beside my current one

3 doors as it will be split into 3 inside along the lines of the support beams

Brown and blue look quite good imo.


Still a few things to do but got it up just before a bad storm came and then terrible rain.

Dimensions 36 foot long each bay is 11 foot wide inside. None of this new build 8ft garage nonsense
Any way it is not the most interesting or characterful but i'm sure everyone here will appreciate the build from start to finish.

Edited by slipstream 1985 on Tuesday 18th December 01:52

[Butter Face]

Yes! That’s awesome!

[TR4man]

Do you have something other than two Audis to go in it?

[Hol]

uk66fastback said:

Jonny TVR said:

RichB said:

I expect most of them are old enough to wear a black & silver plate but to me it looks a bit odd on the Cerbera.

It shouldn't be on the Cerb .. think its any car before 1973

I think it's now either 1975 or runs alongside the 40-year MOT exemption rule, not sure.

So soon, or maybe even now, those nice looking 77/78 black Escort RS2000s with the awful looking metal black plates will be legal ...

just looking for garage ideas, when I spotted this.

Yes, it changed in 2015, to 1975. There is a BUT, however.... as the car concerned must ALSO be registered in the Historic Vehicles taxation group, which is something you have to apply for.

Not having an annual MOT means nobody will force you to remove it every year though.

[Jonny TVR]

slipstream85 .. really like this and the generous dimensions. I have some farmland and was thinking of making some additional garaging. Did you do any of it yourself or did you outsource. What was the cost, do you need planning consent? Looks great.

Edited by Jonny TVR on Tuesday 18th December 08:36

[Byker28i]

eltax91 said:

Got some doors on ours now. Getting closer every day

I know it's a bit late but why two single doors instead of one huge double.
I'd like to take out my pillar int he middle and put one big door in so it makes it easier to work on vehicles.

[eltax91]

Byker28i said:

eltax91 said:

Got some doors on ours now. Getting closer every day

I know it's a bit late but why two single doors instead of one huge double.
I'd like to take out my pillar int he middle and put one big door in so it makes it easier to work on vehicles.

A few reasons.

Principally the planning was already in place when we bought the plot (we are currently 80% ish through building the house) and I didn’t fancy the process of an amendment just for a single door

Secondly, wifey likes the visual appearance of two doors and wifey makes all the design decisions! We had a single door in our old garage and she disliked it, that also cost us close on ten grand to remove the middle pillar, wall and install appropriate steels and a double door which I think still leaves a bitter taste for her!

Thirdly although it looks small it’s actually fecking huge, a pictures perspective issue here. Both doors are 2.4 wide and the reveals mean it’s actully close to 6m x 6m inside. The right hand door will house a two post lift and the left wifey has as a parking space.

The lift will have to go right up against the right hand wall and as such I might have to rotate the car through 180 to work on each side so that’s a bit of a pain, however there was no hope of ever getting the full dominance of the garage, no matter what garage we’ve ever had, wifey has (rightly) insisted on one parking space so she doesn’t have to de-ice in winter. a fair compromise I feel given I get to do whatever I like with that proviso.

The builder is (like me) obsessed with lifted land rovers, so he’s built as much height into the doors and roof as he feels he will get away with as ‘building tolerance’ without team local planning coming down hard on us! So that’s a major positive from my PoV

[dhutch]

Parents just had their 'planning pillar' removed a year ago, I think it was more like £1200 all up of which half was the new lintel, however they also had 2.1m doors to start with which where far to small especially one side you couldnt draw straight on to and resulted in a couple of scratches.

Having had a double with a pair of 2.4m doors I can say its quite manageable, although I would still have been temped to put in a single steel to make the pillar non-structural.


Daniel

[slipstream 1985]

Jonny TVR said:

slipstream85 .. really like this and the generous dimensions. I have some farmland and was thinking of making some additional garaging. Did you do any of it yourself or did you outsource. What was the cost, do you need planning consent? Looks great.

Edited by Jonny TVR on Tuesday 18th December 08:36

I got builders and companies in to do it all as I am useless at this sort of thing.
The building is custom to my specifications
1 building construction company to dig down to clay and put in drainage and the hardcore,

Then a separate builder did the concrete with steel reinforcement mesh and a polished finish.

Then the company I ordered the building from came and put up the kit. It is all custom size

Some planning was needed due to the size so I paid for an architect who was worth his weight in gold as there were all sorts of stipulations from the council and his inside knowledge of planning made life alot easier.

I also had some trees to take down and tree surgeons are not cheap (also a national shortgage of them)
Realistically EVERYthing labour materials planning £45k-£50k.

Feel free to pm me if you want any more info

[slipstream 1985]

TR4man said:

Do you have something other than two Audis to go in it?

I plan on renting out each bay and knowing our pet hate for garages is that they are never wide enough 11 foot wide seems good to me as that is what I would want from a rented garage.

Edited by slipstream 1985 on Tuesday 18th December 10:00

[Jonny TVR]

slipstream 1985 said:

I got builders and companies in to do it all as I am useless at this sort of thing.
The building is custom to my specifications
1 building construction company to dig down to clay and put in drainage and the hardcore,

Then a separate builder did the concrete with steel reinforcement mesh and a polished finish.

Then the company I ordered the building from came and put up the kit. It is all custom size

Some planning was needed due to the size so I paid for an architect who was worth his weight in gold as there were all sorts of stipulations from the council and his inside knowledge of planning made life alot easier.

I also had some trees to take down and tree surgeons are not cheap (also a national shortgage of them)
Realistically EVERYthing labour materials planning £45k-£50k.

Feel free to pm me if you want any more info

Thank you for taking the time to reply. So thats around 8k per bay if it fits 6 cars which sounds like good value. You weren't tempted to go the wooden frame route?

[slipstream 1985]

Jonny TVR said:

slipstream 1985 said:

I got builders and companies in to do it all as I am useless at this sort of thing.
The building is custom to my specifications
1 building construction company to dig down to clay and put in drainage and the hardcore,

Then a separate builder did the concrete with steel reinforcement mesh and a polished finish.

Then the company I ordered the building from came and put up the kit. It is all custom size

Some planning was needed due to the size so I paid for an architect who was worth his weight in gold as there were all sorts of stipulations from the council and his inside knowledge of planning made life alot easier.

I also had some trees to take down and tree surgeons are not cheap (also a national shortgage of them)
Realistically EVERYthing labour materials planning £45k-£50k.

Feel free to pm me if you want any more info

Thank you for taking the time to reply. So thats around 8k per bay if it fits 6 cars which sounds like good value. You weren't tempted to go the wooden frame route?

I looked at a few options, brick was going to cost alot more and concrete wall panel was cheaper but looks terrible. All wood was an option but I felt a steel building looks more professional although paneling can be added later if I change my mind and want to line the whole thing.
On a side note I went for an insulated roof as you want to avoid condensation.

[eltax91]

dhutch said:

Parents just had their 'planning pillar' removed a year ago, I think it was more like £1200 all up of which half was the new lintel, however they also had 2.1m doors to start with which where far to small especially one side you couldnt draw straight on to and resulted in a couple of scratches.

Having had a double with a pair of 2.4m doors I can say its quite manageable, although I would still have been temped to put in a single steel to make the pillar non-structural.


Daniel

As it happens I kind of have. I’ve got padstones in either side, and the side pillars are both large enough to handle a single steel in the future, I just have not fitted the steel yet.

I do plan to put in a half mezzanine floor on the left side for storage etc. At the moment that’s a single steel from the back onto the middle pillar, but might well become a ‘T’ shaped pair of steels. At 2.4 I feel I’ll manage just fine and still keep wifey happy. If it’s awful, I have options to change it with limited costs

[dodgepot]

Haven't looked at a lot of posts in this thread but this is my space allocated to toys.

Exterally needs rendering, but that will be spring earliest, inside just needs need the cat 5 cabling and TV fitting on the bottom wall

[Ray Singh]

That is a decent amount of space - I like the TVR.

The garage is crying out for a 2 or 4 post ramp!

[dodgepot]

Ray Singh said:

That is a decent amount of space - I like the TVR.

The garage is crying out for a 2 or 4 post ramp!

When funds allow!

[phib]

dodgepot said:

Haven't looked at a lot of posts in this thread but this is my space allocated to toys.

Exterally needs rendering, but that will be spring earliest, inside just needs need the cat 5 cabling and TV fitting on the bottom wall

Can I ask how wide the garage is ? Im just about to build a new one and this looks like a good space for 2 cars wide ?

Thanks

Phib

[RichB]

Out of interest, how difficult is it to strengthen a roof structure in order to remove enough of the timbers to create the height to lift a car? In time to come I would like to get a scissors lift, probably flush fitted to the floor but as you can see the roof trusses in my garage are obstructing the height. I wonder if I could chop out the centre section and strengthen accordingly? Of course, when I say I, I mean a builder/carpenter.

[cbmotorsport]

RichB said:

Out of interest, how difficult is it to strengthen a roof structure in order to remove enough of the timbers to create the height to lift a car? In time to come I would like to get a scissors lift, probably flush fitted to the floor but as you can see the roof trusses in my garage are obstructing the height. I wonder if I could chop out the centre section and strengthen accordingly? Of course, when I say I, I mean a builder/carpenter.

Screw the scissor lift, I'd be putting an annex up there!