A new house for my TVRs

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At long last work is starting on a new house for my TVRs.

Not sure how long it's going to take but looking forward to more space. Only downside is the cars are in storage for the summer and they'll be back with me in time for winter, think I got that one wrong somehow

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latest progress




72 ton of dolly

will be big enough for 4 cars - any more than that and the missus would go ape

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Raft foundation due to trees in close proximity to build. Engineer specified 900mm deep across the site before putting the dolly in. I think it's overkill but they have to sign it off.

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QBee said:

No raft racing down the Tyne/Tees/Wear planned then?

not this year, although interestingly there is an old concrete boat aground in the River Wear the Cretehauser, built around 1918 by the Sunderland Concrete Building Company, a subsidiary of Swan Hunter

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Steve_D said:

Nice high roof for the lifts I hope?

Steve

The pan is for the roof trusses to be half high level so that I can get a lift in eventually and half attic trusses for storage.

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Steel work

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Little bit of work going on in the human house as well, but the priority is to finish outside and get the cars back from their enforced holiday at HHC

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1st pour





2nd pour

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Will slow down now, rain stopped play yesterday and it's very windy today so slow block laying!

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A bit of progress now the weather's improved a little






trusses ordered, garage door ordered

roll on next week

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QBee said:

Am I the only one who thought it was going to be 1 deep, 4 wide?

The missus would definitely have gone nuts if I'd done that

The 2 cars at the front will be the regular drivers, while at the back, more of a restoration project hopefully

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Trusses arrived at last




floor to bottom of raised truss is 3.4 metres so plenty of height, with a 2.4m width at the top

Roof on by the middle of next week - just got to wait for the door now

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FlipFlopGriff said:

Nigel - how high is your roof as that looks pretty tight.
Mark - how big is the garage and be good to see it with car in when its done. I need to replace our 2 single prefab concrete garages with something bigger and better, something similar size wise to your I suspect.
FFG

external dimensions are 10m x 6m. I' ve gone for an insulated cavity so that obviously reduces the internal space a bit.
Putting a 4.5m door on

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Been very busy in the main house due to wife pressure, but the garage structure is now complete.

It needs rendering but that can wait for a while