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Mar 13, 2020 23:34:48 GMT
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With the purchase of a second classic car, it was time to get decent storage for the two cars. We already had a large shed from when I had motorbikes but was too small for one car, never mind two. We decided on a custom built 18'x16' wooden garage from a local timber fence/shed manufacturer. The garden was going to have to be redeveloped to accommodate the new garage so I roped in a mate who's a groundsman/landscape gardener to do the bulk of the prep work. Basically the garage is going where the shed is, the shed where the decking is and the decking moving to the patio. So far, the decking has been moved, ground prepped for moving the shed onto and a drain installed at the same time to cure a flooding issue in the border/grass near the back door. The progress so far.........     |
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Last Edit: Mar 14, 2020 0:12:52 GMT by ScotsDave
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Mar 14, 2020 10:47:55 GMT
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As I'm planning on (hopefully) building a wooden garage looking forward to reading the future updates,
Bookmarked
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BMW E39 525i Sport
BMW E46 320d Sport Touring (now sold on.)
BMW E30 325 Touring (now sold on.)
BMW E30 320 Cabriolet (Project car - currently for sale.)
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Mar 14, 2020 13:21:01 GMT
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Currently looking like this. No progress this weekend - wedding and cheeky night away with the better half.  |
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Mar 22, 2020 15:58:33 GMT
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Next bit of progress ready for the shed to move over. All the rubble on the left of the decking was dumped under the deck to save having to take to the dump.  |
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Last Edit: Mar 22, 2020 16:07:02 GMT by ScotsDave
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We had decided that keeping both the garage and the shed would take up too much space in the garden. The garage should have been up by now but the lockdown happened the day after my last update so nothing changed until I saw an advert on FB looking for a shed. After a couple of messages on Friday afternoon we agreed on a price and by Saturday afternoon it went from this...  to this...  Now we are waiting for the contractor to reopen and get the concrete slab laid. |
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Last Edit: May 9, 2020 23:37:14 GMT by ScotsDave
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Just had an email from the shed builder - they are going to contact their contractor now they've re-opened to get some dates to start working again.  |
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Jun 29, 2020 19:30:06 GMT
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Finally got a date for the builder to lay the concrete - 20th July.  Hopefully things will start to move again now. |
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You need to go full width of the garden,
you wont regret it !
If you don't the bit of garden to the side of a smaller garage will be waste
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You need to go full width of the garden, you wont regret it ! If you don't the bit of garden to the side of a smaller garage will be waste I know I wouldn't regret it but it would take up too much garden and I could see the neighbours complaining. Planning permission would probably be an issue as well. I still need a shed of sorts for the garden stuff - just not the size of the old one. |
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Jul 21, 2020 19:45:18 GMT
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After a no show yesterday, the builder pitched up today after a prompt and measured up promising to start tomorrow at 9.00.
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Jul 22, 2020 22:31:01 GMT
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The builder turned up today and put the shuttering up and laid a course of hardcore ready for the concrete to go down tomorrow. Feels like progress is being made at last.  |
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Jul 23, 2020 23:31:43 GMT
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Further progress today - more hardcore, membrane laid and the reinforcing placed over it. The builder now has a long weekend off so the concrete won't get poured until Tuesday.   |
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Last Edit: Jul 23, 2020 23:33:15 GMT by ScotsDave
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Looks like a good job on the base so far, fingers crossed for the weather tomorrow!
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Jul 28, 2020 23:00:31 GMT
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Last Edit: Jul 28, 2020 23:03:53 GMT by ScotsDave
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duncanmartin
Club Retro Rides Member
Out of retro ownership
Posts: 1,320
Club RR Member Number: 70
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Jul 29, 2020 10:01:24 GMT
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Are you going to paint the floor? Is it flat enough to paint and be happy with? I'm only asking because it might be easier to deal with that sort of thing before the shed builder shows up...
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Sept 1, 2020 11:49:10 GMT
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The timber panels have now been made and they all arrived on a huge (for our cul-de-sac) flat bed truck. A team of fitters have got it to this stage.   |
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Sept 1, 2020 11:59:34 GMT
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Sockets and switches already purchased and a jokey number for the door seeing as it's so big.   |
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Sept 1, 2020 17:51:59 GMT
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End of play today and it's looking like this.....  They're coming back tomorrow to hang the doors then it's a case of shifting everything in, getting electricity into it and then the cars and working round them for storage. A busy few weekends ahead. |
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Sept 1, 2020 17:56:13 GMT
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Jealous, makes me wish I had trades in to assist instead of stubbornly taking it all on myself.
Great progress.
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Sept 9, 2020 23:11:22 GMT
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Doors hung, shelf brackets purchased and drive getting sorted later this week.  |
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