The garage project

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pvr
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The garage project

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In the prime of my posting of the project, the forum went down and for those that have been following it and have missed the concluding parts - her the rest of the story.

As I was planning to buy a runabout car for the entire family use (daughter will be 17 soon), I needed more garaging. Currently, I have a single brick built garage + a double brick garage, so this building was going to be a little more "friendly" looking to avoid the front of the house to become bricky-fied.

Stage 1 : Ground work and lots of machinery

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I know this stuff gets Andy excited ..

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Extended the drive to go in that direction as well and a heavy concrete base was built.

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Now the rest of the building. The actual frame was pre-fabricated to the specification that I wanted in the factory, about 20 miles from my place.

The roof took another 3 days to build.

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Once completed, just tested it with two of the other cars:

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So this was at the end of september. Since then, I have dug a trench to put all the cabling in. That conisted of mains power, 3 sets of security camera leads and a cat 5 cable for networking (never know when you need a laptop in the garage :) .

The electrics are all in now and connected in the new garage, I wanted plenty of light etc.

To avoid the "Geoff" problem, I bought a cat repellent which you can see mounted in the corner. It works perfectly, since installing it no more cat prints on the car.
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Rest of the electric installation ...

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And finally, the home of the new car:

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Re: The garage project

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Nice job PVR but don't garages have doors... its most probably a car port lol...
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Re: The garage project

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Jury is out on the doors so until the "'project" is complete, it can still be a garage project :dwarf
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Re: The garage project

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Tastefully done there Mr PVR

family happy with it?

Kids happy with the car?

Cheers


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Re: The garage project

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Thanks,

Too busy working on the car for them to get in it. Added the front fogs, replacing interior parts, parrot BT kit fitted, variable wiper done, remote central locking fitted, parking sensor project on the go, replaced gear lever leather. Great to work on a car which you can take apart without all this electric danger stuff :)
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Re: The garage project

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pvr wrote:Thanks,

Too busy working on the car for them to get in it. Added the front fogs, replacing interior parts, parrot BT kit fitted, variable wiper done, remote central locking fitted, parking sensor project on the go, replaced gear lever leather. Great to work on a car which you can take apart without all this electric danger stuff :)
you just wanted something to play with.... admit it!!
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Re: The garage project

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Guilty as charged :cheers

Great to be able to park a car though without having to have kittens about where you are ...
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