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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22784 Location: UK

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?

RJ
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ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4236 Location: South Cheshire

As you know, I bought ...sorry we bought our house because there was space to develop Wink

peter scott · Joined: 18 Dec 2007 Posts: 7215 Location: Edinburgh

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.

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Phil - Nottingham · Joined: 01 Jan 2008 Posts: 1252 Location: Nottingham

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

A fine garage and contents there Phil Cool

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ukdave2002 · Joined: 23 Nov 2007 Posts: 4236 Location: South Cheshire

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 Shocked

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 Crying or Very sad

Dave

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22784 Location: UK

mikeC · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 9:38 am Post subject:

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!

Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22784 Location: UK

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Rootes75 · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 10:24 am Post subject:

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....
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Bitumen Boy · Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2016 12:43 pm Post subject:

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 Rolling Eyes

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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I'm envious.Never had a garage in my life.
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Rick · Site Admin Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 22784 Location: UK

That's great Mike. The insulation inside the roof is of interest, how messy/horrible was that to apply? I get condensation inside the tin roof of my place.

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