At last we have a garden big enough for the garage I have wanted for a while

Its going to big enough to have a 2 post lift(hence going in the ground) with plenty of storage space upstairs either end for all the cossy parts I have!

Is going to take a while as the everyboys seams to dragging there heals a bit im doing what i can it in spare time with the help of mates

this is how it was till a few weeks ago
(only pic i have)




Then the old garage came down



We had some gates made by a fellow cossy owner(Cheers Mark)





Well that was the easy bit

its taken 3 days of solid digging to get this hole dug with the help of my missus and some mates! none of us have used any diggers dumpers etc so think we did ok tbh


First load out








Me doing a bit of gaffering!!


Because the hire company fucked up out order we had to use a 2 tonne dumper was a bit to big for my likkle digger so we had to makw the best of it







getting there





By this stage I was getting "quite good" with leveling with the digger
So started pulling the final leval through


And this is about where we are now( just put the car in there to make sure it was big enough and to give an idea of scale)






The next stage is to get the footings in, or what im hoping for is they let me do a 10"-12" reinforced concrete base and do the block work up to ground leval then it will be timber work from there so as soon as thats worked out it shouldnt take to long to get it water tight


Its going to have a tiled roof to match the house + it will look nicer with tounge and groove cladding

 

Good stuff matt

 

Be nice when done Matt

 

how come you're not going for double width?

 

Gonna be ideal

 

That looks Mint Matt, good luck with it

 

keep up the good work going to be great

 

Looking good some hard work done there .did you have get planning permission or just come under building regs .if your slab is 30m2 you got to have building regs and 5 m away from the dwelling but your restricted by height aswell .Neil

 

Hope so

Didnt need to and want to keep as much of the garden as poss


Cheers

Have planning permission as it only 300mm from nextdoor and will only be around 2m from the back of the house got loads of headaches with it atm as I wanted to do a thisk slab and build off that but am being told i need a 1.1mtr wide footing and as im only 300mm from next door thats not possable so they need to come up with a different idea for the retaining wall

 

matt why dont you pour a 225mm floorr with a couple of layers of a393 mesh with upright starter bars out of the slab ,then cast a wall at your neighbours and at the back of your garage to act as a retainer wall ,this will do away with the need for a 1100mm footing .concrete walls are a lot stronger than any block wall you put up.just remember to use a water bar at the junction of the wall and floor

 

Keeping you busy for a while then.
Keep up the good work mate

 

Just waiting for the engineer to get back to us as I have told him I really want to do a slab and build off that I really cant see how a 1100mm footing could be stronger than a reinforced concrete slab,
If he doesnt come up with a way to do it then I will put your idea to the him on monday

Cheers for your help James its much appreciated

 

Hopefully not too long I want it done in the next 2-3 months at most

 

SWEET...just the right size...lucky sod lmao..

 

you look like you are having loads of fun there, it's like being back at nursery ain't it

 

nice work

 

will be good when its done mate!

 

Looking forward to seeing this project pan out ! Id love to knock our garage down and build something like what you have planned !

Good luck with the build mate

 

rather nice indeed sir, i shall be keeping an eye on this build,

 

any updates on this mate?

 

No updates really STILL FUCKING waiting for the engineer to get back to us
Have put James's idea to him but that was 3 fucking weeks ago starting to get right on my wick now as I really wanted to be at least out of the ground with it by now

 

matt if your dug down to your floor level and the ground is exposed i would be going a little bit nuts, as any engineer worth his salt will know you dont leave ground exposed like that ,a few days or maybe a week but that would be tops .
especially as you have dug below your neighbours groundlevel,if we got torrential rain for a week you could end up in trouble matt .

tell him to get his finger out mate

 

Touch wood mate it's not fallen in yet, but yeah I'm not fucking happy with the engineer at all he knew what space I had to work with but still came back with something that I couldn't use

ARGH REALLY STARTING TO FUCK ME OFF now

I very lucky with the neighbour as he said if I had to do the footing under his land he would be alright about it but I don want to do that tbh+it's more work than it needs imo

 

keep the pics coming

 

not much of an up date tbh other than as soon as my missus got in contact with the engineeer direct he emailed the plans etc over within a few mins funny that as they were done on the 6th of july, thats fine tho as he can wait a bit for his money lol

So got my brother round on wednesday and thursday to do the final ground prep etc,


Building inspector came out on friday and was happy, the steel will be here on tuesday got my bro laying it on wednesday
Then around Ł1500 of c30 concrete will be here at 08;30 on thursday, best go get some wellys eh lol

and then my mate will be making a start on setting out the blockwork saturday/sunday



so at long last its starting to move in the right direction

 

Nice project mate, looks well thought out.

 

So what is the size of the Garage ?

Just flattered mine 2 weeks ago and was on holiday last week. So hopefully i'll get the mini digger this weekend and dig the footing. Worked out mine will be 25 ft long 14 foot wide : )

 

yeah it should be good its been a long time coming.
got to work out where I want things like water, power coming in.

Well because the walls are sooooo wide it will be around 13.6 ft wide and 27ish ft long so should be a nice size to work in would have liked it wider but didnt want to lose to much of the garden as with everything in life its a compromise!!

 

good to see your moving at last matt,just 2 questions to bare in mind

has he asked for any dpm under the concrete and returned up the wall ?

has he asked for a waterbar at the junction of the wall and the floor?

 

Thanks for all your help James its been much appreciated

It should fly along now

Have 3 rolls 300 micron dpm and 3 rolls of tape so it will be well covered(I hope)

there is no mention of a water bar mate, just so I know what is it some sort of drainage I assume

I will back fill round the walls with gravel to help with drainage although the ground is pretty good round here

 

matt where the walls start off at floor level their maybe a week point where water can cross the joint .a water bar is a galvanised metal bar about 40/50mm about 6mm thick that is beeded an a inch in concrete and sticks up a inch above the floor in the wall cavity.

if you get the dpm done right and bring it up the wall to ground level put a sheet of insulation against it and backfill with a pea gravel to stop any sharp stone punturing the dpm it should be fine .the devil is in the detail here matt and take your time making sure all the dpm is stuck properly and you wont have a problem mate and you will get away with the water bar .

you will be filling the cavity with a concrte mix to your ground level i take it,make sure to chamfer the concrete off to the outer leaf so to throw off any water that may get into the cavity.im sure your brickie will know this anyway matt

 

Glad the S/E got his arse in gear finally Matt!

 

Right gotcha cheers for taking the time to explain it all as said its much appreciated

me too mate was starting to get the right arse ache with him

 

well Its been fucking mental here in the last few days,
I really wanted the Cossy kept here while the builders do the extension on the house but had nowhere to keep it out the way of them,

will let the pics do the talking for a min

little bro doing a bit!



This it what my 2 brothers together did in a day-ish









And then today I had 14.2m3 of c30 grade concrete




I hired a poker and tbh im fucking glad i did its saved us a shed load of work

we have tammped it as well of course not that the finish matters that much as im going to put down some rubber tiles because im a tart and they look nice




we ended up barrowing a fair bit(8m3) of it in as the first driver wouldnt come back past the drain and he said he couldnt get any further over to miss it
Funny how the next driver backed right up to where we needed him missing the drain by a bout 100mm

thats it for now as its pissing it down so the concrete is covered over at the mo

 

Got me self a nice bulter/ belfast type sink as well
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/250870071909

 

looking good matt ,thats the hard bit out of the way mate

 

Cheers James, yeah it was deffo a killer today and the weather really didnt help matters

bet my mate cant wait to start laying around 800 blocks lol

 

Feck Matt. you building a carpark? the foundations on a Extension im doing ATM aint that deep!!! looking good tho mate.

 

Looks great matt. My carport will be turned into a garage/workshop by the end of year not a big as yours mind.

Phil

 

Think thats what you get when you upset the engineer lol the engineer was a total tosser to my missus but fine with my brother when he had to come out and speak to council man on site,
So guess the engineer "thinks" he can get away with speaking to my missus like a cunt, I neecto have a polite word at some stage


Its gunna be good to get a proper start on it tho cant wait