Get a wooden garage built will be a lot cheaper, Do the base yourself just get the cement delivered all ready mixed and a few mates with wheelbarrows and job done.
I've got a wooden garage and its not great. But to be honest I have no idea how old it is. I will be going brick when it finally falls apart. My builder mate from the pub seemed to think about 6k if I just want breeze block and a roof.
i had some mental quotes to rebuild the garage, i told one builder were building a garage not a mansion it was that expensive!!
I paid 5k for my garage mid 2013, Me and my neighbour had a double garage built with a dividing wall (breeze block) tiled roof came in at just over 10k and we split 50/50.
Difficult to explain but the driveway down to the bottom of the garden would be 100 ft long, down hill and have to have 3 patios removed in the process....If I'm out there I'll take a photo.... I built with my brother in law 5 years ago a retaining wall round the bottom half of the garden which at the bottom was 40 ft X 50 ft X 40 ft and at the deepest 6th high which took 2 of us every weekend 5 months. With a pumping lorry up on the road it only made it half way down the garden. There is no rear access at all, got 4 builders in for quotes and none replied....so we did it ourselves, then dug 40 odd tonnes out of the basement which then made the bottom half of the garden flat instead of slopy! If that's a word? Nothings easy in our house!
All sounds a lot of extra work and if a builder can't park his van next to the job that will add another 5k. Any room to build next too the house or set back from the house about 30' but next to a fence/hedge, single garage but double length.
The garden in the end took 7 months to complete literally every weekend. I had the most expensive patio in the world on the back of the house, structurally stopping the whole house sliding down the hill! 2 builders there for 2 months more or less....25k nothing in our house is cheap...never is...
Not your average patio job then, only one thing for it build your bikes in the house, Sounds a bit to much work/money to build at the bottom of the garden. I have seen a conservatory put on the side of a house just for bikes,
Current man cave. .....packed in but I can do what I need to do.... yeah....sorry about hijacking the thread!
That was a good price. Spec makes the world of difference to the price. Built a double garage for a client about 4 years ago and it came to 25K. But it was 7 m2, roller door, four windows, mezzanine storage floor, roof lights, plain tiled roof and I talked him into having an insulated paddle-float floor. Its the only floor to have in a garage. Once sealed you can keep it spotlessly clean and its smooth as a billiard table. Makes whizzing around it on crawling board a breeze, great for working on vehicles. He'd just got it nice when the missus talked him into selling the house for a five bedroom wreck.....
Oh the poor sod. My floor is concrete though I have painted it with that special floor paint, but it doesn't seal properly and still gets dusty. Our garage build was kept to basics, cheap GRP up and over doors, I plan on replacing mine though for a roller door as I want to fit a cage in mine just for additional security (manual roller). Out side walls are brick it is only the dividing wall thats breeze but the foundation of it is brick. Been looking for a reputable company around the South East of England to replace garage door if you know of any point me in the right direction. I believe I have enough room behind the lintel to have a roller door.
Don't know any door fitters off hand in your area but ask around locally and get recommendations for service and price. If you're confident, they're not that difficult to fit yourself, but they must be spot on or they catch as they roll up and down. My client bought a second hand door off ebay and paid a local garage door company to fit it for him. That was a big electric door and even with the fitting fee he saved the best part of a grand. No warranty of course, but there not much that can go wrong if they're fitted right in the first place. I should have added, his garage was full cavity wall construction as well, so it was warm. He was just getting round to the idea of fitting a wood burner when the missus pulled the plug.
Sounds as if you bought a house in the wrong place. Then again, you could have bought one at the bottom of the hill and kept getting flooded ...
No - quite the opposite....its doubled in value since we bought it about 13 years ago plus it started off as a 3 bedroom house but is now a 6 bedroom! Went up into the loft and down into the basement. As I say its just the fact that theres no access from the rear - so no heavy duty machinery can come in (out through the back garage door theres a steep flight of steps, then another flight, then a down hill run through half the garden then the rest is flat...) Plus the other hinging factor (which we knew about) is the house was owned by Reg Prescott before us - certified bodger!
well guys and girls we got the keys to our first home!! i can see this house malarky costing me a fortune!! mrs cookster has got some very big ideas for what 'WE' want to do and none of them involve a 748r in the living room!
Well, i went through the pain 22 yers ago when i lost my gsxr 7/11 and the wife lost her renault 5 gt turbo, the gsxr turned into a kitchen and the 5 turned into a new roof...
nooooooooo!!! i might tell the misses i sold them already and hide them round a mates house!! yeah that a good idea!!
Yep.....we had 1500 quid saved for a holiday which then turned into 4 meters of concrete...1500 quid i hear you say!.....yeah, and the pumping lorry to get it down the garden....the wife actually cried....as her holiday got poured into the ground....
