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Nov 10, 2021 10:51:23 GMT
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Jings, well good luck with that, it will be challenging to say the least. The roof alone will blow the £1k on an 11m x 6m building and thats buying cheap materials. You are probably right, but for the foreseeable future there are more pressing financial and time demands:
If nothing else, I will do the base in the spring so that visitors don't have to park on the grass in front of the house.
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Last Edit: Nov 10, 2021 10:52:00 GMT by etypephil
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Nov 10, 2021 16:21:42 GMT
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I'm quite lucky in my brother's in-law. I have several and only one of them is an idiot. I'm not so lucky, in fact my friends and family play a game called "whose brother-in-law is ****?"... It's a game I always lose. The others are all OK
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Mark
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Nov 10, 2021 17:23:58 GMT
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I think there are plenty of people better placed than I to offer advice on this, but I think something smart can be done with good condition sectionalised concrete panels, often given away for free. Perhaps lay a decent slab, with the walls built up using sectionalised panels and use some brick slips or similar on the outside to blend it into the house a little better?
I would suggest insulating the inside completely if going this route - seconds are available pretty cheaply and will help keep out the cold and damp.
Finally, I thoroughly recommend looking into pre-insulated roof panel seconds - they can span nice lengths without support and when I did the sums, picking up some seconds of these was cheaper than making a non-insulated roof out of timber and sheeting!
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Looks good. Have a look at stable companies. They often make garages, not cheap but not stupid money either.
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1994 BMW 525i touring 2004 BMW Z4 sorn and broken 1977 Ford Escort 1982 Ford Capri getting restored 1999 Mazda B2500 daily driver.
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Thanks pauly22; that's really nice, but way out of budget at least until this time next year. Having said that, at the present rate of progress on the house, it could be then before I'm free to do anything significant in a car workshop.
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I was going to suggest looking at alternative ways of reaching the same goal. As pauly22 says, stable builders are an option. Also, American style “pole barn” style garages could be an option. All of the above of course tempered by rules and finances. Concrete sectional garages are hard work to disassemble and move, but the usual £1.00 on Ebay or free on local sales sites are tempting options. I helped disassemble one, and a year later my mate got rid of it again, never having built it.
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Jings, well good luck with that, it will be challenging to say the least. The roof alone will blow the £1k on an 11m x 6m building and thats buying cheap materials. You are probably right, but for the foreseeable future there are more pressing financial and time demands:
If nothing else, I will do the base in the spring so that visitors don't have to park on the grass in front of the house. Ooh look ,spanish plates.
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Todos con Lorca
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I was going to suggest looking at alternative ways of reaching the same goal. As pauly22 says, stable builders are an option. Also, American style “pole barn” style garages could be an option. All of the above of course tempered by rules and finances. Concrete sectional garages are hard work to disassemble and move, but the usual £1.00 on Ebay or free on local sales sites are tempting options. I helped disassemble one, and a year later my mate got rid of it again, never having built it. A friend of mine got one locally from a friend of a friend and got him to deliver it. I helped him put it up and roof it over the course of a bank holiday weekend. We built it in his old house (well, next to it!) in 1997. It's still there.
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Last Edit: Dec 7, 2021 22:00:57 GMT by mrbounce
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You are probably right, but for the foreseeable future there are more pressing financial and time demands:
If nothing else, I will do the base in the spring so that visitors don't have to park on the grass in front of the house. Ooh look ,spanish plates. Yeah; Spanish Frank came over for a couple of weeks.😇
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I have at last made a bit of progress on this, fencing down for excavator access,
dug out and hardcore in, courtesy of walls and concrete lintels etc demolished in the house renovations:
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