want to build a concrete garage - advice!

Derek W said:
It basically means, before you start any sort of work you should check with the planning department that you dont require any planning or building warrant :rolleyes:

take a photo of your current garage, attach a copy of that other image from nucrete, give planning an email with your street address so they can check things out and ask them if you need planning permission for what you want to do.

Also for the stuff with your tarmac drive, it will probably need to be ripped out and replaced with a concrete raft foundation / base so the garage doesn't sink.
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No current garage - just a piece of tarmac which is my parking spot. I've asked the council and they are the biggest waste of space ever! £75 to give me an answer as to whether i need to pay more to apply for planning permission. i need to pay to ask basically.....

other people have garages so i know it can be done but people are very, very vague when all i want it a single answer. just trying to deal with everything in a logical manner.

If i had a garage already it would just be a simple swap and i wouldn't be asking on here. as it's a new build i've seen the hassle people have had from councils...
 
burns said:
Sounds like a fun job http://www.locostbuilders.co.uk/viewthread.php?tid=134218 !

I've never done it but it comes up on retro rides quite often. They are very heavy (~3 tons) and may take a few trips in a van.
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Just read it and theres seems to be a few different ones.

Going from single piece 6'6" sides v 2' square pieces of which 3 of them in between 2 posts. need to look at one on ebay before buying i think. :)

very helpful post though - know what i need to look at and to avoid asbestos roofed ones.

is there a quick simple way you can tell if it's asbestos?

Looked on net and they tell you about colours and that its dangerous - how can you tell quickly before breathing it and dying?
 
After reading the threads on the links i have to admit i may be forced to reconsider as all the panels are 100-120kg!! I weigh 82kg!!!!

From white rose (?) i can get one built by them for £1500 if i do the base! (dig up tarmac and put 4" concrete base down - easy!).
2nd hand for a rotten one would cost me £100-200 or a decent one £500-600! Then I've got to take it down transport it and build it up again! Gonna cost me a bit in petrol and van hire! So by the time i've added it all up i won't be far short of the £1500!

Most P.I.T.A. thing is the council and their unhelpfulness but got name and number of local councellor! :) As far as all the links the council give me i don't need planning permission - but they won't tell me if it's ok for me to dig up the tarmac and put a base down!

So i may as well do it and it's only a few bags of sand and cement and a weekends labour! Get it done and then if any complains i've omly lost that. :)
 
helpimcrap said:
So i may as well do it and it's only a few bags of sand and cement and a weekends labour! Get it done and then if any complains i've omly lost that. :)
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If your going to lay a concrete base, then use 'Ready Mix' concrete, a lot easier, than mixing it yourself.

I laid a concrete base here, it took about 2.8 cubic metres of concrete, excluding apron.

One thing though if your using a prefab garage make the edges of the concrete base 305mm thick, as I've seen prefab's break a 100mm base at the edges.

And put down a well compacted sub base about 100mm of MOT Type 1 hardcore, before poring the concrete base.
 
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Nightglow said:
If your going to lay a concrete base, then use 'Ready Mix' concrete, a lot easier, than mixing it yourself.

I laid a concrete base here, it took about 2.8 cubic metres of concrete, excluding apron.

One thing though if your using a prefab garage make the edges of the concrete base 305mm thick, as I've seen prefab's break a 100mm base at the edges.

And put down a well compacted sub base about 100mm of MOT Type 1 hardcore, before poring the concrete base.
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Cheers for advice.
305mm thick as in deep to the ground? That's a lot of cement if it's over 10" deep! or do you mean wider than the prefab garage? If so i have neighbours so not an option i'm afraid.
I'll be laying mesh in the base when doing it to hold it together better and will also be doing it 6"wider than the garage size as per instructions. :)

Will look into the hard core thing though. Cheers. :)
 
elmuzzy66. said:
You could also get the walls prefrabricated out of concrete and then its just a matter of assembling the parts together. Should cut the time spent building down.
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Yeah, i looked into buying one 2nd hand - 100-120kg a piece for the panels according to the link i was given! I only weigh 80kg so not light!

£1500 is a complete build done with no input from me! All i have to is build the base!
 
elmuzzy66. said:
You could also get the walls prefrabricated out of concrete and then its just a matter of assembling the parts together. Should cut the time spent building down.
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Yeah, i looked into buying one 2nd hand - 100-120kg a piece for the panels according to the link i was given! I only weigh 80kg so not light!

£1500 is a complete build done with no input from me! All i have to is build the base!
 
What about ex display, end of range garage, some firms clear out at end of year, ready for new range, or display next year.
Look on Ebay, a lot of prefab garage suppliers advertise on there.

The last garage I had built was from 'Hanson Garages' I think, lovely garage had interlocking panels, so no mastic joins.
 
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