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Rick
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2016 11:44 pm    Post subject: Cars, and your choice of home Reply with quote

Evening all,

How great an influence did your interest in old vehicles have, when it came to choosing a place to live? Or if you're looking for a place now, do any properties in the right area come up to scratch, with regard to accommodating your choice of vehicle(s)???

Or should a hobby have no significant influence in house buying?

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My wife wants to downsize, which means move to an apartment. I said NO but if you can find a one bedroom house with a double garage, I'll think about it.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 1:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Where we used to live there was no garage so I was limited to rebuilding the Swallow engine and gearbox in a 6' x 6' shed that I made from fencing panels. It had no windows but a transparent PVC roof.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 2:17 am    Post subject: Re: Cars, and your choice of home Reply with quote

Rick wrote:
Evening all,
How great an influence did your interest in old vehicles have, when it came to choosing a place to live? Or if you're looking for a place now, do any properties in the right area come up to scratch, with regard to accommodating your choice of vehicle(s)???
Or should a hobby have no significant influence in house buying?
RJ


The decision may depend on age. When we moved out here in 2013, we were looking for a place that would accommodate 2 moderns and a workshop. It also needed space for a recreation room (snooker) and Mrs's Quilting activities. I promised myself a model train layout, with craft/model making room, wine making and storage area. We didn't want to live cheek by jowl but not be miles from a town. We are retired. 20 years ago our needs would have been much different.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 2:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Only have a 2 room flat, as I live by myself, and houses cost a fortune in the area I live in.

I bought a garage many years ago, where I keep 2 of my cars.

I also have a small workshop which I rent, where I keep a few cars.

Not ideal - but thats all I can do.

Have a friend, who has a wife, so they can afford a house, and now they have 2 houses.
One with a big custom built garage, but he still has to keep a big doubbel garage, with attached outhouse storage at his mothers house.
He also rents a huge garage downtown from where he lives, so buying a house is not always the solution.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 9:57 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Our current house was bought seventeen years ago with my hobbies in mind. It had a 30' x 20' steel workshop only. But it is all on an acre block, so I have since added another 30' x 20' garage and a 30' x 15' model railway shed. Being in the very outer suburbs of Perth, I was able to buy the property rather cheaply and have no desire to ever move again! My hobbies certainly dictated our choice of home!

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2016 10:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Garaging has always been a secondary consideration for us.
The first property I bought was a flat in town.
My wife and I lived there for a couple of years but wanted a house in town. We also wanted it to be Georgian. We did look at mews properties but rejected them as too small and found a Georgian end terraced house in ruinous condition. We could conceivably have built a garage at the foot of our garden but it would not have had good access and have ruined the garden.



Many years later we still lived in the same house but had paid off the mortgage (our lender would only give us a 10 year mortgage on account of its condition) and I had the opportunity to buy an Art Deco flat that had a garage. We bought it thinking we might retire there and rent it out in the mean time.

The developers' brochure from 1937.

The reality.



We did rent it out for quite a few years and I used the garage to restore my SS.

After 20 years or so in the terraced house we moved a little further into suburbia to a semi-detached Victorian house and built a single garage with room for the SS plus workshop space.

Our daughter and her husband took over the Art Deco flat but decided to sell it and move to a detached bungalow in suburbia as we had decided against retiring there.

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PostPosted: Sat Nov 26, 2016 6:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's a lovely place Peter
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 1:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The flat was nice and had gigantic joists supporting beautiful hardwood floors but there was absolutely no sound deadening. Nice in theory but not in practice.

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 3:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We are on the hunt for a house at the moment, one thing is a definate and that is it has to have a garage and a driveway for a minimum of two cars.
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Rootes75 wrote:
We are on the hunt for a house at the moment, one thing is a definate and that is it has to have a garage and a driveway for a minimum of two cars.


... and two lorries? Smile

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PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 8:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

when we married in 83 we moved into a flat at the to of a cul-de-sac with a rear yard and parking at the door // we did a loft conversion adding 3 bedrooms and a bathroom and then bought the downstairs, and converting the lot into a 5 bed 3 bathroom house with a garage and roof gardens parking for loads of caravans in the street // I often get nice letters from the council demanding that i move my caravans as they are causing an obstruction so i do i move them to the end of the street photograph the empty street then move them back again
it,s a game of cat and mouse that i relish as i know the poor guy who is stuck in the middle as i worked for the council for 35 years Laughing
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ps the garage has my 1960 Berkeley t60 3 motorbikes and enough to build a couple of caravans in
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2016 9:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Indeed, in our case we've been looking to move on and off for the last 3 or 4 years. Finally my wife found one with an acre of garden and a triple garage. Job done, we move in January, fingers crossed. First time I'll be able have my cars together. That and my wife is an avid gardener and RHS member so all good.



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 10:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We moved two months ago .For the first time I can work on my cars in a garage and have enough drive way for all the vehicles .The wife has a big kitchen,two bathrooms and full central heating. Luxury.
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 29, 2016 11:50 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We moved over 14 years ago from a 3 bed 1960's semi with a very long but narrow back garden which we bought when we married 19 years before. Eventually this had a 55 ft long 15ft wide tandem garage which took 4 of our classics for 13 years, 2 others lived outside but ultimately were sold.

Because of my spinal troubles which were progressing fast we decided to find a 1920's bungalow with a large garden and eventually did with a 1/4 acre garden mostly at the back and 2.5 times wider than the normal width. It already had a small brick single garage and some lean to workshop/storage for just one car.

A 3 car+ wide garage/workshop was quickly built at the bottom of the garden + plenty of turning space at the rear but also at the front as the bungalow is on a fastish B road. Eventually a car-port was added at the side of the big garage and another single pre-fab garage. This means 6 cars out of 7 can be kept inside/under cover or even 7 at a push but as 2 of these are now Series Landies they stop out in open. The spinal problems have progressed but not yet to the predicted wheel chair and although now semi-retired we do not yet propose reducing our fleet as I still use one or other for the 25 mile round trip to work 4 days a week.

What I do when I fully retire is still open but I doubt if anymore garaging will be required Confused We also still have sizeable front and rear garden areas with lawns and borders/shrubs too so all in all a good move was made



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