Building a double garage by ourselves (loadsa pics)

Iamzod

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Dont know if this will be of interest to anyone but i thought i'd post it anyway.

I know this aint technically car related but as far as i'm concerned the purpose of this garage is to have somewhere to build & store a 3.9-5.0 litre V8 Ford Capri X-Pack, which i will no doubt be posting progress threads about next autumn so i'm sticking it here.

If it's in the wrong place then someone move it please.

Posted a few months back in GD link for a bit of advice have been slowly progressing since then so thought i'd post up of what's been done.

We started off with this -

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Started work on the garage last summer during the world cup where we rented a mini JCB & dumper to dig up & remove 17 tons of our garden to make way for a double garage with workspace on the side for my dads Supra & my Capri.

Once it was all dug out the weather quickly turned naff making the area a mass of thick sludgy clay which put an end to the job for 2006.

Restarted this summer in april/may i think when we had 2 abnormally hot weeks which dried everything out & made the ground workable again. so we re-started on it.

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Following sorting the ground out we had to put down 17 tons of crush which had to be poured at the front of the house by an 8 wheel tipper then moved bit by bit into place at the site of the garage 120 feet away by wheelbarrow which took 2 full days, my dad loved that weekend! :(.

Following that we put all the shuttering into place which is where i posted my last thread on this for some advice on laying down the rebar.

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This was followed a week later by the damp proof membrane which i'm told is to prevent damp from coming up from underneath into the concrete as well as starting to put the rebar into position.

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Not long after this point the weather took a turn for the worse, this was around the time of all the floods in the summer so we ended up buying a pump as the dug out area was sometimes collecting 9 - 10 inches of water around the edges in under a day due to all the rain, this stopped things for another month or so as you cant really concrete in nearly a foot of standing water.

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Once the weather started to pick up we had to start concreting, we split the whole area into 9 seperate bays and bought a cement mixer off e-bay as well as hiring a 2nd one, this was probably the worst part of the job as we started to get some really bad rain again & ended up buying a gazebo to concrete under. This wasnt particularly fun as each bay was taking about 5 - 8 hours to concrete depending on which bit was being done, corners taking longest as they were about a foot deep round the edge, this was all being done by mixing our own bags of sand & cement.


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At this point i went away for 2 weeks in Malia which was a nice change as i think the lowest temperature was about 26 degrees one night & highest i think was in the mid to high 40's one lunch time.

Came back to a large delivery of concrete blocks sat on the drive which took another 3 days to move by wheelbarrow 3 at a time which my dad had to do all by himself due to me dislocating my shoulder on holiday & not being able to lift a bag of sugar comfortably never mind a wheelbarrow full of concrete.

The concrete base was also completely finished.


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Got the builders in over the last week & things are now starting to take shape, 3 courses of concrete blocks left to go on the walls as well as the thicker sections being put in at certain points & we should be ready to start roofing the place in a few weeks & get the doors fitted on the front & side.

Then comes the nightmare of knocking the old garage in front of it down thats covered in Ivy 1m thick in some parts and is made of asbestos, and also wiring the place up, insulating it & getting it heated sorting drainage, rendering the outside, extending the driveway.

The camera on my Nokia N95 makes the wall look wonky for some reason in one of the pics but it aint in real life, dont know why it looks like that.

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nice project, having a large garage is a godsent. My mucker down the road had a massive garage built, is brilliant, makes our double look tiny and he only parks 1 car in it lol so loads of room to keep garden equipment, have a seating area, weight lifting bench, workbench, big tool chest, computer, loads of room to work on the car, remote control roller shutters too, I envy his garage!
 
Clarkey said:
nice project, having a large garage is a godsent. My mucker down the road had a massive garage built, is brilliant, makes our double look tiny and he only parks 1 car in it lol so loads of room to keep garden equipment, have a seating area, weight lifting bench, workbench, big tool chest, computer, loads of room to work on the car, remote control roller shutters too, I envy his garage!
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:o that sounds a cool garage!
 
looking realy good wish i was in a house i know i was staying in to build somthing simmlar but im moving to england soon, good luck with the garage
 
Looking good there, love the pics on a project from start to finish.

How big is the garage? Did you need to get planning permission for it? Reason I ask is I live in a corner house and want to build a 5m x 6m garage in my back garden. The entrance to the garage will be from the road that runs along the side of the house but the garage will be set back around 5m so there's an area in front of the garage to park cars and the council can't/won't tell me 1 way or the other if I need planning permission for it, really bloody frustrating to be honest.
 
Its hard to get an idea of scale compared to the overall size of the garden but are you not concerned about the effect on the value or salability of the house?

Again it depends on size and access etc. but I'm suprised you didn't get any objections to the plans.

Negative comments aside it will be good to have a decent place to work. I've got a tandem garage (single width, double length) and I'd be lost without it. Still not enough space though for my workshop and junk :o
 
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