Laying a GARAGE BASE.

[chodweaver]

PS what's got into the women of the north west recently? There's yours, encouraging you to BUILD A GARAGE? Meanwhile mine is nagging me to buy a scaffolding tower. Though the latter may be more to do with my life insurance status...

[John F]

I did my garage base about 3 years ago... what's written above is good advice, especially about hiring a Wacker plate to compact your base.

 

You should also bear in mind what you might need in the garage before pouring in the concrete. I laid 2.5 mm armacore cable from my house to power a consumer unit in the garage, I didn't bother with plumbing and/or drainage. I also sank a ground anchor for my bikes.

[Timewaster]

Yee gads! Your planners must be blind to let that hip to gable end conversion take place! Nice garage base though

Believe it or not, hip to gable doesn't need permission outside a preservation area.

They look ridiculous in a row of hip ended semi's don't they.

 

Anyway.... Back to concrete.

[sierraman]

If you can do the work physically I'd do it yourself. There's nothing skilled about the job it's just bloody hard work if you've no digger. What garage are you putting up on it out of interest? I ask as I've a (really shit) porch down the side of our house. It runs the full length of the house. You couldn't replace it as it would contravene planning in respect it's built over a drain cover to the front part. However to the back it's just that bit too narrow to fit a lean to garage on. I might put one on when the porch starts to fall down.

[John F]

Tayne, on 07 Jun 2016 - 6:54 PM, said:

Is that a security thing or do you need to winch them off a very muddy driveway?

 

They like to abseil.

[UltraWomble]

I did my garage base about 3 years ago... what's written above is good advice, especially about hiring a Wacker plate to compact your base.

 

You should also bear in mind what you might need in the garage before pouring in the concrete. I laid 2.5 mm armacore cable from my house to power a consumer unit in the garage, I didn't bother with plumbing and/or drainage. I also sank a ground anchor for my bikes.

Inspection pit.

We did this in Bobs New workshop, though it was made somewhat easier by the fact that he started off with a fooking big hole and then filled it all in except the inspection pit ( built out of blockwork with lighting).

[Alusilber]

Deffo put a DPM down if you want to paint the floor or even just have a nice dry garage without piles of salt appearing magically all over the floor.

[kirton]

my garage has a bone dry pit;  I had a pond lining specialist weld up a box of pond liner and the pit was built inside it. Not a lot of cost for the result

[beko1987]

When my BIL had his garage built last year he ran conduit pipes up through the floor from outside into one corner, and sank a ground anchor for his motorbike too. The conduit just sits there with a few lengths of rope in for pulling stuff through and the ends capped with bin bags and string, ready for when he gets leccy in there