cookie64 Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Well the time has come for me to start my own garage/workshop thread, I've waited a long time to do this and just as my luck would have it my planning permission came through the day before we went into lockdown and now all the builders merchants are closed thought in the mean time id share some of the plans and photos and you might all be able to shout some suggestions before I get digging, Probably in a week or two when I'm forced to stay at home again haha Basic Details: Double Garage, Constructed of Brick and Block with a layer of insulation in-between, insulated roller doors to the front, one side will have a 2 post ramp (hence the little dormer roof extension to allow the truck to go high enough to work on, the other side will have a lifting beam for pulling out engines etc. Today I have measured out and painted in blue on the floor the outline of where the garage will be, car just parked there so I didn't cover it in paint haha 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FridgeFreezer Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 I'd take it all the way to the fence on that left side, it's only going to be a dark unloved corner anyway, and gives some room for workbench and/or storage. Looks good though, wish I had a bit more space for a lift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B reg 90 Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Oooo. Looks good. So does the cad model of the lift? Any chance u could share or point too where you got it from? I’m drawing up my garage plans as my corona project! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crclifford Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Be wary of the roots on the tree to the left and also the willow on the right. i agree with FF if you can, go as close to the boundary fence as you can. Even if you don’t, I would be tempted to put the small door on the side facing the rest of the garden. looking at the dwgs again, when you park a second car in the bay, it’s going to block access to the personnel door anyway. however looks good and a good size. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arjan Posted April 2, 2020 Share Posted April 2, 2020 Very nice...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miketomcat Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 I'd be tempted to move the RSJ lifting beam forward so you can lift the engine out, push the 90 back and drop the engine onto the floor with the door shut. Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retroanaconda Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 Or make it so that the central front/rear beam is fixed but the cross beam (onto which your hoist is fitted) is on rollers that sit on it and a second one mounted to the wall. Looks a great project though. Will you be building it yourself? Cavity blockwork is going to be expensive but it’ll be lovely to work in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishbosh Posted April 3, 2020 Share Posted April 3, 2020 I appreciate that you might have the central pillar at the front to support the steelwork for the lifting beam, but if it was me, I'd put a big enough beam across the front to carry the required loads and have a single roller shutter. The pillar will just get in the way 90% of the time and having a clear opening right across the front will give you loads more flexibility. That is of course if you don't actually need the extra height on one of your doors...… My roller shutter is 4.5 x 2.5 which should be plenty of height - once I get the carp out of the garage and the land rover in! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie64 Posted October 12, 2021 Author Share Posted October 12, 2021 Wow I thought I had done some more updates than this it’s been a crazy year dug standard 900mm deep strip foundations, building control came out and weren’t happy about the proximity to the trees and said I’d either have to go 3.5m down!!!! Or get a structural engineer, so I spoke to a structural engineer I know, and he gave me some plans, I think he may have gone abit over kill but it’s definitely a good slab now I ended up digging out the entire base to 1.6m deep then back filled 200m at a time with class 1 mot and whacked it down until It was filled 900mm then fitted shuttering for the ring beam which will take the walls and filled the Center with another 600mm of mot, then came the rebar fitting all 1.5t of it first pour of concrete for the ring beam 600mm deep then built the outer wall up 300mm to form the shuttering for the main slab which is another 300mm thick pour of concrete in total I removed 7x 18t trucks of soil then put 6x 18t trucks of hard core back, 1.5t of reinforcement steel and then about 22cubes of concrete build is now on hold for a little bit whilst the prices are high and job security isn’t quite as much of a given photos to follow 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie64 Posted October 12, 2021 Author Share Posted October 12, 2021 Photos Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bowie69 Posted October 12, 2021 Share Posted October 12, 2021 Crikey, that ain't gonna move. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie64 Posted October 12, 2021 Author Share Posted October 12, 2021 Shouldn’t float haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elbekko Posted October 13, 2021 Share Posted October 13, 2021 At least now you can park a tank in your workshop without a worry. 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maverik Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 What was the main worry with the trees? Potential for roots damage to your structure? Got a mate also holding off on a barn construction due to price of steel, crazy crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mossberg Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Wow, that is some amount of work gone into that - well done. Why did you have to go so deep? I don't have a clue with building or building regs, but that seems to be a long way down just to build up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landroversforever Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 That's one hell of a slab! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daveturnbull Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Should withstand the apocalypse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arjan Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Very nice - well done. We like our concrete - as you seem, too.... That floor will take a ramp OK.. Hope you can continue the build. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crclifford Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Tree roots can be a nightmare. Main problem is if they draw all the moisture out of the soil next to the structure you get settlement of the ground and the building. Willows are likely to draw a lot of water out of the ground as well. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anderzander Posted October 14, 2021 Share Posted October 14, 2021 Gosh I missed this thread - please keep sharing, this is going to be fantastic ! Some great suggestions from folk here too - though if you already had planning in, I’m assuming it was too late for you to want to do them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed Poore Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Got to love structural engineers - I spoke with one about my proposed garage building and the slab and retaining walls proposed were insane. Yes it was dug into a bank but there was a 13t 360 doing the digging and you could hear that thing working getting through the ground. There's almost going to be more steel in my walls that concrete , still at least that was bought when prices were cheap - might sell it now for 2 to 3x that... Why was a trencher and root barrier rejected then? Those work a treat at preventing the roots from undermining foundations, the willow and other trees will have already sucked up water from that area anyway given their age so unlikely to dry it out enough to worry about. Anyway job is done now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie64 Posted October 16, 2021 Author Share Posted October 16, 2021 I’m not sure the council really cared what I did, just that it couldn’t be ‘standard’ strip foundations to be honest what we built is definitely overkill but that was probably my bad for using an industrial structural engineer cause he was free haha it’s nice to know it will be bomb proof though! I’ll post up the structural drawings when I find them in case anyone is interested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
landroversforever Posted October 16, 2021 Share Posted October 16, 2021 Definitely interested to see the drawings Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cookie64 Posted October 17, 2021 Author Share Posted October 17, 2021 Foundations.pdf 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mickeyw Posted October 18, 2021 Share Posted October 18, 2021 Good heavens! All that for a garage! I've seen factory floors made of far less. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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