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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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 Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 6:07 pm Post subject: My Garage Building Solution |
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_NOV5215 by peterthompson, on Flickr
My garage was based on a free plan available here.
http://www.lsuagcenter.com/NR/rdonlyres/3B88057B-77E5-40EE-8C07-095433EB646E/15689/5998AdriondackTypeShelter.pdf
I changed the dimensions to fit standard UK sizes and used tanalised timber throughout. The cladding is 18 x 150 tanalised sarking overlaid at the gaps with 25 x 50 battens. The roof is corrugated Onduline, which is a bituminous board; light but strong. The up and over timber door was £100 off Gumtree locally. It probably cost me around £1300 all in and including a concrete floor that I mixed myself!
There is a half loft space in it but the place is currently filling up with non-car junk. But I have plans to build a somewhat smaller extension in the same style as a fully insulated workshop on the side. I have made an extra door with this in mind.
Good points about this:
1.I could build it without needing a concrete base in place first.
2.It needs just four corner posts concreted in to support the whole structure.
3.All the weight of the roof sits on two top rails, like huge goalposts.
4. It has very good headroom.
Although it may rot one day when I am long gone I think it will last longer than most. |
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Ironhead
Joined: 28 Mar 2010
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Location: Leicestershire
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| Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:10 pm Post subject: |
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nice garage colwyn  |
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clan chieftain
Joined: 05 Apr 2008
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Location: Motherwell
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| Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 8:12 pm Post subject: |
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Looking good Peter. You have got the height for a 2 post ramp there.....Whats with the TV ariel.?
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colwyn500
Joined: 21 Oct 2012
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Location: Nairn, Scotland
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| Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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| marina estate wrote: | | Looking good Peter. You have got the height for a 2 post ramp there.....Whats with the TV ariel.? |
Larry, there's no TV aerial, it's just the way the photo catches the overhead mains supply that runs along the road behind. I don't even have electricity in the garage yet except from an extension. I never planned it to be here when we re-wired the house. There was a thirty foot tree that I had to take down first. That was fun, chainsawing at the top of a lightweight scaffold to take down the biggest branches.
It could easily take a lift but I don't think I would ever get one. I find that 75% , I guess, of my old car work is either playing with the engine, bodywork or interior.
What I really dream of is a workshop built of timber but to housing standard, with big windows looking into my little woods and plenty of insulation and tidy shelving...next summer...
I hope this is the last garage I need to build. here is a previous attempt when half-built. Notice my little collection of Fiat 126 BIS. They seem quite sought after by some people now; I can't think why, the engines were so unreliable. water cooled, on it's side, at the back; clever but rubbish.
FIL3345 by peterthompson, on Flickr |
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