The garage project
Posted: Thu Nov 19, 2009 10:18 am
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
I know this stuff gets Andy excited ..
Extended the drive to go in that direction as well and a heavy concrete base was built.
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.
Once completed, just tested it with two of the other cars:
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
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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.
Rest of the electric installation ...
And finally, the home of the new car:
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
I know this stuff gets Andy excited ..
Extended the drive to go in that direction as well and a heavy concrete base was built.
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.
Once completed, just tested it with two of the other cars:
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.
Rest of the electric installation ...
And finally, the home of the new car:
