Being into cars all my life i've always wanted a decent sized garage, but never had one or room for one.
Bought my first home last year with er'indoors, which came with a garage albiet too narrow for even a BMW Isetta to fit in! But the land around the house had room for a bigger garage on the side.
Had plans drawn up to build a bigger garage on the side of the existing one, with the wall knocked through to make it into one big space. Waited anxiously for 8 weeks and i was granted planning permission Currently there is a poxy small toilet and sink at the rear of the garage, and i've decided to knock that down and have a perfect rectangle shape to work with.
Also at the same time we're having a new roof on the main house, and when the extension is complete a new roof there too, and the whole house rendered.
We had a wall going along most of the front of the house and a small front garden, which i had reduced by half and garden removed, to make basically a 5/6 car drive.
Anyway that's just a few thing's i've had done to the outside since we moved in.
I'm going for remote control roller shutter doors, keeping the existing garage door aperture size with a new roller shutter, and hopefully a 3.5 - 4 metre door next to it the other size of the pillar.
Inside i want an epoxy resin floor, plastered walls, central heating + hot cold water (easy as there's pipes for the existing toilet there), lot's of electric sockets and some silly bright lighting - what ones though?
Hard to explain in words but you can see from the plans what it will be like.
I'll keep taking photos of the progress, hope you find it interesting!
Plans of the front
20170806_011012 by Jason, on Flickr
Only pic i could find of the old wall
IMG_2875 by Jason, on Flickr
Before we moved in with garden to right
Untitled by Jason, on Flickr
After knocking wall down and slabbed over garden (this will be tarmaced, not happy with it)
Untitled by Jason, on Flickr
Untitled by Jason, on Flickr
Site for the new garage, as you can see it's on a slope which follows the main road outside our close
Untitled by Jason, on Flickr
20170730_164830 by Jason, on Flickr
20170730_164816 by Jason, on Flickr
Work underway
20170801_180814 by Jason, on Flickr
20170801_180808 by Jason, on Flickr
20170801_180806 by Jason, on Flickr
20170801_154607 by Jason, on Flickr
One of my cats having a nose as usual
20170805_135840 by Jason, on Flickr
20170805_135833 by Jason, on Flickr
20170805_135826 by Jason, on Flickr
Concrete base will be going down in the week i believe. The new garage will go back as far as the french doors of the rear room, at the very rear will be a patio.
Will keep updating :thumb:
Bought my first home last year with er'indoors, which came with a garage albiet too narrow for even a BMW Isetta to fit in! But the land around the house had room for a bigger garage on the side.
Had plans drawn up to build a bigger garage on the side of the existing one, with the wall knocked through to make it into one big space. Waited anxiously for 8 weeks and i was granted planning permission Currently there is a poxy small toilet and sink at the rear of the garage, and i've decided to knock that down and have a perfect rectangle shape to work with.
Also at the same time we're having a new roof on the main house, and when the extension is complete a new roof there too, and the whole house rendered.
We had a wall going along most of the front of the house and a small front garden, which i had reduced by half and garden removed, to make basically a 5/6 car drive.
Anyway that's just a few thing's i've had done to the outside since we moved in.
I'm going for remote control roller shutter doors, keeping the existing garage door aperture size with a new roller shutter, and hopefully a 3.5 - 4 metre door next to it the other size of the pillar.
Inside i want an epoxy resin floor, plastered walls, central heating + hot cold water (easy as there's pipes for the existing toilet there), lot's of electric sockets and some silly bright lighting - what ones though?
Hard to explain in words but you can see from the plans what it will be like.
I'll keep taking photos of the progress, hope you find it interesting!
Plans of the front
20170806_011012 by Jason, on Flickr
Only pic i could find of the old wall
IMG_2875 by Jason, on Flickr
Before we moved in with garden to right
Untitled by Jason, on Flickr
After knocking wall down and slabbed over garden (this will be tarmaced, not happy with it)
Untitled by Jason, on Flickr
Untitled by Jason, on Flickr
Site for the new garage, as you can see it's on a slope which follows the main road outside our close
Untitled by Jason, on Flickr
20170730_164830 by Jason, on Flickr
20170730_164816 by Jason, on Flickr
Work underway
20170801_180814 by Jason, on Flickr
20170801_180808 by Jason, on Flickr
20170801_180806 by Jason, on Flickr
20170801_154607 by Jason, on Flickr
One of my cats having a nose as usual
20170805_135840 by Jason, on Flickr
20170805_135833 by Jason, on Flickr
20170805_135826 by Jason, on Flickr
Concrete base will be going down in the week i believe. The new garage will go back as far as the french doors of the rear room, at the very rear will be a patio.
Will keep updating :thumb: