Who has the best Garage on Pistonheads?

[Muncher]

Home Protect cover mine, around £40,-50k for the garage itself and about £20k worth of contents.

[Storer]

NFU Mutual May be able to assist.

[frodo_monkey]

Glad I can finally join in at my new house! Been in since last Sep, but the existing garage wasn’t quite up to scratch - crappy prefab, knackered door, faced the wrong way and was on a concrete slab about 18” high with a steep ramp:

https://flic.kr/p/2fnx5Mx
View from the road

https://flic.kr/p/2egA14W
View from the side of the house

Sold the garage for £50, buyer dismantled it. Meanwhile popped in planning for a garage 2.5 cars wide by 1.5 cars deep (approx 8x7m); has to get planning permission as we live in an AONB.

Foundations went in today:

https://flic.kr/p/2ewEDZZ

https://flic.kr/p/Sa4FuD

More to come as the build progresses!

[zippyonline]

Muncher said:

Home Protect cover mine, around £40,-50k for the garage itself and about £20k worth of contents.

Storer said:

NFU Mutual May be able to assist.

Thanks both - I've gone for an M&S policy which covers the garage and outbuildings to the same value of contents etc. to the same as the house.

Muncher - been watching your house build thread over the past few years, and the recent garage has been interesting. I actually befriended you on FB to catch up on the photos - I work in Ipswich actually. Top work, wouldn't mind having a real life snoop at some point (although we're a bit busy at the moment with he move!).

[zippyonline]

frodo_monkey said:

Glad I can finally join in at my new house! Been in since last Sep, but the existing garage wasn’t quite up to scratch - crappy prefab, knackered door, faced the wrong way and was on a concrete slab about 18” high with a steep ramp:

https://flic.kr/p/2fnx5Mx
View from the road

https://flic.kr/p/2egA14W
View from the side of the house

Sold the garage for £50, buyer dismantled it. Meanwhile popped in planning for a garage 2.5 cars wide by 1.5 cars deep (approx 8x7m); has to get planning permission as we live in an AONB.

Foundations went in today:

https://flic.kr/p/2ewEDZZ

https://flic.kr/p/Sa4FuD

More to come as the build progresses!

That's got potential (well the plot has!). Keep us posted :-)

[uk66fastback]

That would qualify for one of the worst garages on PH Frodo ... glad it's finally gone. More pics when you can as the build happens.

[Megaflow]

Storer said:

Your local hydraulic hose specialist can make a hose to your specification.

Alternatively try Pirtek

Have you wall mounted the pressure washer as well?

[RichB]

frodo_monkey said:

https://flic.kr/p/2egA14W

Sold the garage for £50, buyer dismantled it.

Sounds like the deal of the season. You didn't have to lift a finger, you got paid and you saved £250 on a skip!

[frodo_monkey]

RichB said:

Sounds like the deal of the season. You didn't have to lift a finger, you got paid and you saved £250 on a skip!

Absolutely! It was our builder’s suggestion - he said to pop it on Gumtree as free to collector because somebody would want it. I did and was inundated! The eventual ‘buyer’ literally offered me £50 to hold it for him over other people, possibly the easiest thing I’ve ever done...

[Storer]

Megaflow said:

Have you wall mounted the pressure washer as well?

No. Mine has to serve many purposes and is petrol engine driven for portability.

[eltax91]

Big week for my garage!

First, get busy with the kit and lift some stuff up into the Mez out of the way:-





Then time to get the floor sorted with a 2-pac epoxy resin:-



And finally, in with the big boys toy:-

[geeman237]

Here's mine (in the USA, so everything has to be bigger right?) After my divorce in 2010 I got to keep the house, and decided now or never and extended the existing 2 car space to a "XL" 4 space. I kept the neighbours happy by making the additional spaces 1 and bit cars wide and a 2, maybe 3 Mini's deep. I still haven't got around to plasterboarding it out, but will get there. I may add air con as its bloody miserable in the summer with the heat and humidity. I have a small portable two post lift with anchors in three places so I can move it around to work on cars. It needs a damn good tidy up and re-organising to maximise the space. Tucked in there I have a Daimler SP250, a Turbo Esprit, TVR Griffith (just sold) and TR6, oh and my ride on mower. Even had a party in it.

[uk66fastback]

That looks to be fantastic, geeman ... lots of space as well, like a lot of US properties. Sure looks like you miss living over here on this cramped island!

[Muncher]

zippyonline said:

Thanks both - I've gone for an M&S policy which covers the garage and outbuildings to the same value of contents etc. to the same as the house.

Muncher - been watching your house build thread over the past few years, and the recent garage has been interesting. I actually befriended you on FB to catch up on the photos - I work in Ipswich actually. Top work, wouldn't mind having a real life snoop at some point (although we're a bit busy at the moment with he move!).

Sure Chris, give me a shout when you are free.

[eglf]

After 13 years I finally got my garage back.
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[LanceRS]

Where had it been?

[AstonZagato]

LanceRS said:

Where had it been?

Pentonville on a 20 stretch. Time off for good behaviour.

[eglf]

LanceRS said:

Where had it been?

Children had it as a den, now grown up so I get it back as a garage.

[DoubleD]

eglf said:

LanceRS said:

Where had it been?

Children had it as a den, now grown up so I get it back as a garage.

Ahh, you realised where you had gone wrong.

[Doofus]

eglf said:

LanceRS said:

Where had it been?

Children had it as a den, now grown up so I get it back as a garage.

Your children had some bloody odd toys...