garage

Hello group, I'm planning the upgrade to my garage to make it a more pleasant (=warm) place to work on the car. It will not be habitable space. The garage construction is fully detached from the house and built as follows: Walls - 215mm solid wall of 102mm facing brick tied to 100mm block...

Hi All, This is my first post here ever, so please be gentle with me! I have a double-garage with an automatic "up and over door" which is operated by a key fob: I reverse my car into the drive, press the button, the garage door opens, and I reverse into the garage, then close the garage door...

Does anyone know how to fit insulation boards in between these joists? Image 1: https://1drv.ms/i/s!AvxDFgUHUgNC1krn9WtZ8iPSTfx6 Image 2: https://1drv.ms/i/s!AvxDFgUHUgNC1ku8ckUmx5x9sb0C

Hi all, We are in the process of building a new garage and a brickie is going to face our block walls and build pillars and apex etc.. we have left three 500x900 gaps for Windows on the block wall immediately below the roof plate. There is to be no cavity as such between the block and brick...

Hi, I know this is probably not the correct forum for this question, but there are no forums for Car Ports/Garages....so...... My wife would like to knock our old decrepit garage down and have a timber car port with a pitched roof built with stairs into the pitched roof (as the storage)...

Hi Folks, there is a pretty large gap in our garage door which lets a lot of cold air into garage. Can this be improved in any way? Picture here: https://1drv.ms/i/s!AvxDFgUHUgNCxFFWrt2bKXIebhqD Thanks folks.

Hi Folks, during winter our bathroom can be quite cold and doesn't really hold much heat. I have the bathroom window sealed up and loft insulation in place. Recently I have noticed a draught coming out of a gap between the tiles and our bath. The bathroom is above our garage. I went down to the...

Hi all. We have just moved into a new house, which has an old fused type consumer unit installed in the garage, which supplies the rest of the house. I would like to upgrade the unit to a modern split load type, but is it acceptable to install one in the garage? Or being in the garage, would...

Does anyone have experience with garage door closers? I just installed one and it seems to be working ok so far, but was wondering if others have one installed and what experience you have with these things. Here's the one I installed:

Hi all, Quick question, I have searched through many threads and topics on here but can't find the answer. I have a large garage at the bottom of my garden which has its own consumer unit. The garage has about 12 double sockets and a lighting circuit. What I need to do is to run power to my...

Hi all, Quick question, I have searched through many threads and topics on here but can't find the answer. I have a large garage at the bottom of my garden which has its own consumer unit. The garage has about 12 double sockets and a lighting circuit. What I need to do is to run power to my...

Hi all, A friend of mine is intending to replace some electrics in his garage but when he looked at the cable which comes up to the old fusebox it appears to be some sort of armoured cable. I took 3 photos of a short section of it and I'm wondering if anyone can shed any light on what it is...

Ooops put this in the wrong forum area.... Me and the missus are in the process of buying a house (well a bungalow that had the roof converted to bedrooms/bathrooms) that is also a bit of a project too. We will have the following work that needs to be done and wondered if anyone had any...

Me and the missus are about to buy a house (well a bungalow that had the roof converted to bedrooms/bathrooms) that is also a bit of a project too. We will have the following work that needs to be done and wondered if anyone had any experience of how much these would likely cost (won't be doing...

Hi. I’ve had a good look through all the posts but can’t find anything that matches my problem. I have a 5m x 2.5m single skin brick detached garage with an apex tiled roof. The garage sits on a concrete block foundation which is at the top of a fairly steep garden and public footpath. One side...

Hi all, So I got a builder to build me an outbuilding. I use it for a gym. It has a power rack in it and my gym plates. It also has my Mrs sofa from her old property. From what I gather I had 14x12ft concrete base and 2.5m height building. It has 2 French doors. Zero ventilation except for...

Hi we have 2 large garages made from wood, they appear as square boxes on our land registry document. We would like to replace them with a new timber frame garage and an office. Are we able to just knock them down and build new timber ones? They will be in the same position but the office will...

Morning All, I am hoping to kill two birds with one stone: I have a concrete sectional garage that needs to come down. I also have a pebble driveway, which we dislike as the pebbles seem to inevetably end up where we don't want them (in the house, on the road in front of the house,...) The...

Hi guys, I'm taking down a concrete garage down its around 16 x 22 foot but I will be shortening it to 14 x 10 foot I'm ripping up the block paving and putting a 2 inch base of concrete down 6 inch bigger all the way round for it to sit on I'll re wacker the base and level it if required as it's...

Hi All, Firstly thanks for taking the time out to read my thread. I'm currently building a workshop in my garden, nothing fancy but it will do the do for me. it will take up no more than 11% of the garden and is made from brick and block (cavity) and will have a hip style roof. It's in from...