Garage Inspection Pit.

[GazSuttonUK]

I am thinking about building a Inspection Pit in my garage. Would need to be about 5' deep and about 6' x 3'.

Anyone done this before?

Regards,
Gaz.

 

[breezer]

Anyone done this before?

yes I believe several thousand people have done this

 

[Softus]

Have you considered a much easier option, which is a sloping 'trough' that you can lie in?

This needs to be only so deep so that you can get under the car and have enough room to swing your forearms. And rats don't make homes in this kind of pit.

 

[Nige F]

You can buy GRP pits from classic car mags

 

[splinter]

I seem to rember that years ago this use to affect the "rateable"value of your house,there again so did having windows

 

[Nige F]

But window tax pre-existed car tax by 200 years

 

[noodlz]

But window tax pre-existed car tax by 200 years

Its still daylight robbery I tells ya!

 

[splinter]

But window tax pre-existed car tax by 200 years

WHAT does that mean I can Un-brick my windows, don't know about the inspection pit in the garage ,the one I filled in because my rates wnt up.I really should not have put the wives body in there ,still at the time it just seemed such a waste of a good hole

 

[noodlz]

I really should not have put the wives body in there ,still at the time it just seemed such a waste of a good hole

You're refering to the pit here, not the wife, right?

 

[Softus]

Oi!

 

[sandwell]

When I had a new garage a few years ago now, I was contemplating a pit. But talking to a friend, he put me off the idea. As he said, you will often find friends and relatives phoning you asking if they can bring the car over and use your pit for the day.
Think carefully, you may be giving up your privacy

 

[IJWS15]

Ever wondered why garages don't use these anymore?

They are unsafe as any heavier than air fumes collect in them and you risk asphyxia if you use one. In a garage you get a bit of CO, CO2, NOX and unburnt hydrocarbons!

I work in telecoms and as many will have noticed cable joints tend to be buried in chambers in the gorund. Before entering one the air in it must be tested, if unsafe you do not go in!

Especially dangerous if working alone.

 

[sm1thson]

and drainage in a pit is a pain.

 

[masona]

If life was that simple, the garage roof may need to be taken off