New Garage/Workshop build

[davenport]

proper job.......

 

[M@tt]

Trailer reversing was all my mate allans handy work!! very usefull chap to know

 

[richard s]

matt what size timber have you used for your roof trusses. im wanting to make a car port so i have somewhere i can work on the car in the wintery months that are soon to be here and was thinking 3x2 for the roof beams and some form of ply/conti board for the roof then felted. much like your original but with a single slope instead of pitched. but once boarded i need to climb on it to felt it and wasnt sure if 3x2 would be sufficient to hold me and the weight of the roof

 

[M@tt]

yeah my roof trusses were 3x2 and it takes my weight stomping up and down on it no probs i reckon i'm about 14/15 stone

HTH

Matt

 

[richard s]

cheers matt
i think i will have to make a start on it soon then i will have 3 jobs on the go as i cant seem to finish something before i start something else.

 

[M@tt]

another small update

been a bit busy recently so progress has slowed somewhat

I've been chipping away at the insulation and internal lining though and this evening i was finally able to fit the garage door now that the end wall has been lined.
Its a nice extruded aluminium roller door and is remote contol operated and i'm pleasede with how it looks B)

Also last week with the help of some mates from my 205 forum i picked up my new lathe from an old guy in Sheffield giving up his tools. Its a nice little british made Raglan Lathe already on a single phase 240v motor so should come in useful once the garage is all up and running. It's partially dismantled at the mo.

thats it for now

 

[the snooper]

have you made the cutomary gas bottle wood burner ready for winter

 

[stormin]

have you made the cutomary gas bottle wood burner ready for winter

With all that insulation I think he'll be sweating in there if he actually does any work.

 

[Wedg1e]

My van has no signwriting either.........

Nor mine. As a field service techie I was given the choice of an estate car or van; I said it was obvious that a van would be more use given some of the equipment we have to shift.
Van turns up, boss makes noises about signwriting it.
I say, first off, an estate car wouldn't have been 'written so why should the van? and secondly, given that some of the places I get to with my job incur the wrath of the animal liberation nutters, do I want to park said mobile advertising board outside my house and be a target? No thanks.
As it turns out, due to collaboration on projects between the various companies in our group, half the time I'm on-site representing a different company to the one I was yesterday or will be tomorrow...

 

[M@tt]

again another small update

this weekend i tried to smash the remaining exterior cladding that still needed to be done and i reckon i got a good 90% of it done, just a few more planks to go and it'll be done! thank god!!
I fitted the fascia boards to the front and trimmed the roof shingles to match. I also need to make a couple of boards to cover the inside edge of the garage door opening.

the lion share of teh work was spent cladding the end wall and fighting the tree/bushes in the corner which made teh job 10 times harder! just nned to make a couple of fascia boards for the end and cut the shingles to match as well

so things still to do are

1) make end fascia boards
2) cut shingle to match
3) seal shingle edges down
4) make door batens
5) make window frames
6) get windoow glass
7) refit side fascias
8) fit guttering
9) finish lining inside
10) finish cutting roof insulation baords
11) finish lining roof
12) install plug sockets
13) install lights
14) fit wiring

so not much then!!!

 

[Robotstar5]

Looking good

I would do item 14 before 12 & 13!

 

[brightspark]

again another small update

this weekend i tried to smash the remaining exterior cladding that still needed to be done and i reckon i got a good 90% of it done, just a few more planks to go and it'll be done! thank god!!
I fitted the fascia boards to the front and trimmed the roof shingles to match. I also need to make a couple of boards to cover the inside edge of the garage door opening.

the lion share of teh work was spent cladding the end wall and fighting the tree/bushes in the corner which made teh job 10 times harder! just nned to make a couple of fascia boards for the end and cut the shingles to match as well

so things still to do are

1) make end fascia boards
2) cut shingle to match
3) seal shingle edges down
4) make door batens
5) make window frames
6) get windoow glass
7) refit side fascias
8) fit guttering
9) finish lining inside
10) finish cutting roof insulation baords
11) finish lining roof
12) install plug sockets
13) install lights
14) fit wiring

so not much then!!!

looking good but what are u doing with the blocks rendering them painting them or just leaving??

 

[the snooper]

what ever you intend to do i would get some plastic cladding that looks similar to the wooden cladding to stop the transfer of moisture if you want it to look more or less the same all the way to the ground

 

[M@tt]

Ah yes i should have mentioned the breeze block bit, i'm getting a couple of decent dry stone waller guys in who are going to clad the breeze blocks with the same stone as the rest of the wall as i've got tonnes of it down the bottom of the garden. At the same time i'm getting them to take down the end of the wall by the gate and put a gap in so i can get to the garage without needing to go out my side gate and open the double gates each time.

Snooper if you look closely you might be able to make out the DPM between the top of the breeze blocks and concrete base so no moisture should travel up.

 

[Shox Dr]

You're going a proper job of that fella. Nice one

 

[the snooper]

Snooper if you look closely you might be able to make out the DPM between the top of the breeze blocks and concrete base so no moisture should travel up.

i was refering to damp traveling up into the timber cladding from what ever was below

 

[M@tt]

been plugging away at it still

I've bought some metal trunking & plastic conduit to run the cabling in, so this past week i've been fitting that & sorting the lighting and sockets.

I'm haiving 5 circuits
1) Lights
2) Normal 13amp plug sockets
3) dedicated 16amp socket for Air Compressor
4) string of 16amp sockets for the welder
5) dedicated 16 amp sockets for lathe & milling machine

i now have light, power and a snazzy remote control roller garage door

 

[woody_02g40]

Top job, cracking workshop!

 

[Robotstar5]

Looks like you have everything covered by the wiring!, could you fit another piece of trunking with a slot in lengthwise above CU, would tidy up the drops.
I hope you have RCD protection in the main CU?

 

[white van man 2]

what have you go0t feeding the consumer unit? does it go into a fuse/mcb on the house comsumer unit, or is it going to be direct to the meter?