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Rick Site Admin

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22784 Location: UK
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 5:41 pm Post subject: House purchased because of the garage ...? |
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The garage situation was key in our (well, my) decision-making when it came to moving house years ago.
Our first place had a ramshackle tin garage, with plenty of space alongside. The side panels of the old garage were removed, leaving the frame and roof in place. We then lifted it onto a couple of wheeled dollies, moved it down the drive, and across to a spare corner of the garden before lowering it again. It proved to be a useful extra store.
In its place went a new, three-car-wide replacement.
When it became time to move on, we hunted for a place with either a sizeable garage, or room to build one. Fortunately the place we found had a a suitable structure already in place, that just needed a few modifications to make it perfect.
How much has outside storage, and specifically a garage, played a part in your deciding where to live?
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4236 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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As you know, I bought ...sorry we bought our house because there was space to develop  |
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peter scott

Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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In our last house I had a single garage but it was 10 minutes by car away. Most of the work to put my old car back on the road was done in that garage.
We moved to our present house about 20 years ago and one of the factors was that it should have a garage or space for one. The latter applied and we built a single garage with about 10 feet of extra length for a workshop area.
Peter _________________ https://www.nostalgiatech.co.uk
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Phil - Nottingham

Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1252 Location: Nottingham
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Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2016 11:20 pm Post subject: |
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We moved 14 years ago and the garden had to accommodate at least a 3 car garage but not in tandem fashion (55 foot long and 15 foot wide) like on our existing semi-detached house and plenty of car turning space at front and rear.
The 2 bed detached bungalow we found stands on a 1/4 acre 75 foot frontage plot and has an existing single brick garage as is traditional and a spacious 3 car garage/workshop was built leaving plenty of garden/lawns front and rear but an awful lot of block paving was required for driveways/standings!
Old in 1994 and new - could do with more space though even after car-port built on the side in 2011
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Rick Site Admin

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22784 Location: UK
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ukdave2002
Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4236 Location: South Cheshire
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 9:10 am Post subject: |
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It's getting more difficult to find an affordable house with a decent plot, round our way bungalows with a decent plot sell to developers who demolish them and cram multiple houses on the plot. New houses get squezed inbetween older ones, the norm being a wheelie bin sized gap between them, some of them sell for North of £500k
Sadly our local pub The Horse Shoe, featured on this site for its classic car events, is no more. With a small estate currently being developed where it stood
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Rick Site Admin

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22784 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 9:20 am Post subject: |
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ukdave2002 wrote: | It's getting more difficult to find an affordable house with a decent plot, round our way bungalows with a decent plot sell to developers who demolish them and cram multiple houses on the plot. New houses get squezed inbetween older ones, the norm being a wheelie bin sized gap between them, some of them sell for North of £500k
Sadly our local pub The Horse Shoe, featured on this site for its classic car events, is no more. With a small estate currently being developed where it stood
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So it's gone for good now has it? that's a shame, I've not been past that way in a while.
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mikeC

Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 1809 Location: Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 9:38 am Post subject: |
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Yes, the estate agents had great difficulty with our requirement for 'large garage with house attached': 'How many bedrooms?' - 'It doesn't matter, as long as the garage is big enough...'
Eventually we found our present house complete with 4-car wartime Nissan hut, which didn't even appear on the sales particulars! |
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Rick Site Admin

Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22784 Location: UK
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kevin2306
Joined: 01 Jul 2013 Posts: 1359 Location: nr Llangollen, north wales
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:01 am Post subject: |
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Rick wrote: | mikeC wrote: | Yes, the estate agents had great difficulty with our requirement for 'large garage with house attached': 'How many bedrooms?' - 'It doesn't matter, as long as the garage is big enough...'
Eventually we found our present house complete with 4-car wartime Nissan hut, which didn't even appear on the sales particulars! |
Sounds like an interesting building
RJ |
It certainly does, any pictures of it Mike?
When we moved to our current home (10years ago) I wanted a place that had either a large 2 car garage or a space to build one plus enough parking for cars. at the end of this year both my children will be working/driving so it is good to be able to accommodate all the extra cars easily.
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Rootes75
Joined: 30 Apr 2013 Posts: 4174 Location: The Somerset Levels
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:24 am Post subject: |
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Some very nice garages on show here. One definite 'tick' in our current house search is a garage and room for a lean to and turning space. Probably asking too much but you never know.... _________________ Various Rootes Vehicles. |
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Bitumen Boy
Joined: 26 Jan 2012 Posts: 1763 Location: Above the snow line in old Monmouthshire
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 12:43 pm Post subject: |
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In our case the garage ended up influencing not only the house but also which country it was in! When ma cleared off I was going round with my dad looking at houses local to where we were in Gloucestershire - it was getting quite depressing looking at a series of poky ex-council houses with a little bit of hardstanding at best, and maybe room to erect a shed out the back. They weren't cheap either, and dad was going to struggle for a mortgage as he wasn't many years off retirement. We weren't really expecting a garage at all, although the old house had an integral garage on paper, like many it was too small to use as such and so was filled with junk while we worked on cars outside Then one of us spotted a small ad in the Bristol evening post for a terraced house in Wales with garage and a stream in the back yard, being sold by a steelworker and his wife forced to move due to the closure of the Ebbw Vale works. The ad in the Bristol paper was a canny move on their part, as they were selling without an agent, and without that little quirk things could have been very different. The price was such that dad could buy the place outright with no mortgage, so we drove over the Severn bridge at the weekend to have a look at a house we'd seen no pictures of in a town neither of us had ever heard of before. Everything checked out and dad made them an offer on the spot... of course it didn't work out as easily as that, the sale fell through but having seen what was available for the money we forgot about staying in Gloucestershire and ended up driving over to the eastern Valleys a couple of times a week looking round and viewing houses - no internet then - and had a few more possibles that also fell through. It all worked out in the end as, one day while I was driving us back towards the bridge after another failure, the first couple phoned dad's mobile out of the blue to ask if he was still interested... a little over thirteen years later we're still here in the first Welsh house and garage we looked at, and are still on good terms with the previous owners.
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baconsdozen

Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1119 Location: Under the car.
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mikeC

Joined: 31 Jul 2009 Posts: 1809 Location: Market Warsop, Nottinghamshire
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Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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kevin2306 wrote: | Rick wrote: |
Sounds like an interesting building
RJ |
It certainly does, any pictures of it Mike?
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The original structure has a self-supporting asbestos roof; this pic shows me half-way through over-cladding it with a steel covering:
I have sprayed the inside with fire-proof insulation:
The main entrance has 12 foot wide by 8 foot high double doors, so I could always look for a vintage lorry if I tire of my cars! I now have a leak-proof, condensation-proof, relatively warm accommodation for my cars
The building was originally erected for the local taxi service, so I also have my own vintage petrol pump outside too I understand the original fleet consisted of two pre-war Austin Twelves, one of which was replaced in the 1950s by a post-war Armstrong Siddeley which was used for longer journeys; sadly neither was there when I bought the property! |
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