Started on the new garage at home today after finally being given the thumbs up from the planning office.

My lovely well maintained garden this morning.



Had a delivery



Started digging






Completed







Back gardens been a mess since I moved here but never bothered spending money on it or any time as this was always my intentions. Got a 20T skip coming tomorrow to fill with the crap out the ground, concrete the bases Tuesday and then we should be flying along

 

dunno about up your way mate but down here you can get a grabber lorry in to take the lot for around 180 a load, much cheaper than skips

 

Skip ain't costing me anything pal.

 

Looks like toll be a good size that!

 

Filled the skip tonight



Multi tasking!



Mud gone



Shutters done



Concrete booked for 4pm tomorrow

 

Quick off the mark with that what size you going for .Neil

 

Thanks Neil, its 6x8

 

Sweet, you can never have too many garages hey Andy

 

The workshop ain't big enough for you Andy ?

 

lol, i just want this one for home.

 

Had the weekend off as I was at Combe.

Levelled it out tonight, looks lot better, stone coming Wednesday, and concrete booked for Friday so get the slab done.

 

looks really small from that angle. Although its not small from the dimensions youve given!

 

Stoned it up tonight.



That's about 4/5 inch below top of block which is finished floor level,

The blinded it with sand a little to stop the visquine getting punctured



Got some re-bar ordered and need to pick that up

Was meant to concrete tomorrow evening but my labour have all gone AWOL so it's Monday eve now.

 

Where have you moved to mate?

 

i'm sure it'll look bigger when it's finished, but it does look a tad small from the pics you taken...

 

its not if you count the blocks, and a block is what, 450mm? 18 inch?

 

so 27 foot long then?

sounds better

 

i worked it out as a shade over 8 meters one way, then stoppped when i noticed to OP says its 6x8 in an earlier post

 

alwys great to see a new garage been built, can you answer a question for me on the foundation? what is the width and depth of it? its not looking like 3 times the width of the wall its supporting over here in ireland its a rule of thumb to do 3 times the width of the wall, so far agro sake a wall is 300mm/ 12" wide the founds would be roughly 900mm....im wanting to build a new garage myslef and would like to go the way you have your founds in....

 

for a garage 450 wide and 600 deep should be plenty but im not sure what building regs require. i dug down past my 1930's house footings a few years back and they were only 400 deep and 400 wide lol

 

sound for that, will work out how many cubes i need for my own founds now with these calcs....look forward to seeing the progress.....

you should check out this website, been a member for a few years and its savage, but you may know about it already, its all about garages from all over the world

www.garagejournal.com

 

I cant see any pics.I cant wait to buy a new house with a garage.

 

Pictures should be working now glenn, the garage is now concreted and i order my brick today

 

Concreted the base. Just finished, absolutely shattered!

 

I remember when I laid a base for a (sizeable) shed at my old place....absolute killer. You have my every sympathy Andy !

 

The biggest problem was the fact it was red hot and the sun was on it, it was going off so quickly, the left side was high so dragging it all back over was hard work, before this we discovered we were half a cube short at 5pm so had to dash to the concrete yard and put a cube in my old mans trailer and come back, whilst he was out it was levelled, then shovelled in what we needed, but this left half a cube on his trailer that was setting quick so then the surplus was shovelled into the cavity to take the space up between the bottom 2 blocks.

i was goosed!

 

Fuck that.... why didn't you get a volumetric to make up and pump what you needed ?

 

if i ever need concrete doing i pay someone to use shovels and stuff

that's one fuck load of a lot of work and agree that you would have been better paying for a pump truck to sort it out

but at least you've got the weekend to relax now and hope no animals walk over in in the middle of the night

 

im not scared of a bit of hard work folks

 

Fair play Andy. I was lucky and had 6 mates helping made it easier but still hard graft

 

This not finished yet

 

Andy,
you have forgotten to put a drain in under where the engines sit to stop all the oil dropping on the floor

 

James, tile floor can be mopped easily

Had a big delivery.



And started

 

That'll be awesome when finished Andy, how many cars will it be able to keep in it??

 

only going single skin?

 

Pete, 2 comfortably. Cheers

Stu, no block tomorrow. Brick got delivered first

 

Getting there







Insulation gets delivered tomorrow, as does another 3 bags of sand, some more cement and the catnic lintels.

 

nice one, i can see the ties poking out lol. looking good. what roof are you going for?

 

Flying up!!

 

Its going to be a tile roof to match the house stu

thanks matt, im liking the fact its going up quickly