Building a Garage

[autofetish]

Please post information about building a garage.

Attached is a link to the Government portal and it show you can build a massive garage without planning permission

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/permis ... /miniguide


Show us yours and what man cave you have pros and cons

If you did it again what you would have done differently

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[pete walton]

I would have built mine bigger,but i am ruled by the South Downs Park Police....Its a national park these days i think,, and planning is a nightmare were i am .......anyway built mine out of timber ,,wanted to thatch the roof ,until i got a price ,,,,,,Tiled it myself ,,,,,,cost about 7k all in 7.5mts by 5.5mts.... Nick Chandler made the doors ,,,,,,

[pete walton]

Planners would not allow me to put a floor in with Velux windows ,,,,I will come back to that another day when it becomes part of the landscape,,,

[Roger]

Make it big. As big as you can.

And make it warm. Insulation and lots of it, even under the concrete.

Made lots of mistakes on my first one. Next one, which may now not happen (might move) would correct all that.

Loose spec is 9m x 9m. Steel framed with 80mm insulated cladding on walls and 150mm on roof. Insulation under the base and underfloor heating in the slab. Im too old to do cold anymore. 1/2 height scissor lift as well.

[autofetish]

Thanks great info

Underfloor heating

[jerry]

Nice job Pete whats a rough costing on the garage please?

[mopar_mark]

Nice job Pete whats a rough costing on the garage please?

I will guess @ £15k

[pete walton]

Nice job Pete whats a rough costing on the garage please?

Jerry i done it all myself and it came in at about £7,000,,,,Thats with my Travis discount .....I had the bricks and stone....Standard strip foundation dug as narrow as i dare to save a bit of concrete ,300mm bucket on the digger for a 225mm wall, so no room for a chuff up on the dig...Readymix is exspensive ,best part of a grand for a load .... be carefull how wide you make it because of stock size timber ,,,,if its too wide then standard length joist will not span and then its custom cut or steel frame.....Most expensive part was the roof tiles ,,,,and i got them as a job lot from a roofing supply firm that wanted to get rid of the lot ,,3750 tiles on that roof...Needs insulating and lining so add on another £450ish ....and yes i should have made it bigger..I will add i had no muck away from dig ,this was just spread about on my country estate ,,But that can cost these days since the good old tax man invented land fill tax..

[jerry]

There never big enough Pete did well to come in at that price

[pete walton]

Jerry its the labour that costs ,if i was to build something like this for a client it would be the best part of 20k,,,but i would use a roofer, and then it would have bonnets on the hips etc which which would put £400 ish on the bill to start with ,,,,Stone is about £500 a tonne to buy ,and a tonne goes nowhere ..I have a mountain of stone ,i save every bit i get ,its like gold out here ...So yea it should have been a lot more but its what i do every day ,day in day out and the best part of every weekend for the last 30 odd years ,,

[mopar_mark]

That's a real good price Pete, even including your labour. My base came to nearly 50% of your overall price

[MilesnMiles]

Mine is timber 20" x 14' with 6" insulated concrete base.
£3.5 all in.
Holds a 17' Roadrunner with ample space for parts, work bench etc..

[Dave999]

steer clear of mecano style tin sheds and concrete council bolt together jobbies.

both run with condensation


Dave