Mike’s Garage and Landscaping project.

Thanks for your interest, sorry its taken a while  to update, but here we are,

so, i had a floor, next step had  to be the walls. Having put up a few garden walls, i thought i’d be better getting a brickie in. Found a local guy, who was brilliant, turned up when he said he would, and came back every day until he’d finished, a refreshing change from the groundworkers!

Ordered some blocks etc, and the below went up very quickly.







I hired a genie material lift to do the lintel, and i helped the brickie get it up, and within 10 days or so, i had all the neighbours asking how many flats i was putting up..



The next challenge was steels, due to the length, it needed a ridge beam, and this in turn would need a support half way down. Although i had drawings i held off until the blocks were up, just in case.

Very glad i did. The engineering drawings hadnt really properly considered the front doorway. I wanted a roller shutter to maximise space. If we’d built it by the drawings the roller shutter would have poked through the roof, not ideal!
Did annoy me somewhat, as i’d been quite specific and paid a chunk of money, but anyway some hasty changes were made to the roofline, whilst the blocks were flying up.
I then measured up, measured up again, and then once more, and sent my drawings off to the steel guys. ( yet another thing that has gone up a lot recently,


You can see the central support lying fown in the middle. It wieghed anout 400kgs i think. Was a challenge getting it off the lorry with my mini digger, but it came off eventually, and once on the concrete floor, rolling them around was easy, i just used 4 short scaffold tubes and rolled them into position.



Getting them up in the air would be a little trickier though! I hired 2 beam lifters, as these would need to go to nearly 3 meters, and the genie lifters don’t go that high.

Found a willing friend to come and help( i owe him a few favours now) and cracked on.








Amazingly it fitted perfectly, if a very close fit on the width, and i did have to trim the length slightly. But once it was up i was really starting to feel like it was moving on!
Next would be the roof, but i’ll have to come back to that, thanks
Mike.