Garage Build - Key Steps, Top-Tips and Costs of my garage build
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2021
- Built in 2018, this video takes a look back at what I learnt from the garage build. Starting with the idea and planning phase running through to the final build completion and all the ancillaries that make the perfect garage. I’ve also included the costs to help you budget accordingly.
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Viewed for the garage because I will be doing the same sort of thing soon (I hope!). Very useful info. It's great to seee how the dimensions and the cars work out. Thanks Rich!
Hi Rich, Thanks for a great video. Always thought your garage looked great when watching your car vids. Love also the SL500. I have a 2003 black one. Great car. Keep up the great videos. Regards, Neil
Great Job!
35k if your interested. Great video and lovely garage..
Only got a single for my 182 trophy but wanted to work on it and have bought quickjacks. Really great for space and ease
Great information, would not have a clue what the sort of cost this type of garage would be so thanks for sharing. Looks really neat and blends in well. Good choice in the doors, how things have improved since the days of twisted, dented and rotting up n overs :-)
Thanks. I had very little info to go on when I started planning this around 3 years ago. I especially wanted to understand cost information for different types of build. I hope it informs others in their planning 👍🏻
i know it's kind of randomly asking but does anyone know of a good site to stream new tv shows online ?
@Cairo Joel I watch on flixzone. You can find it by googling :)
If I was you I would have planed for an electric car charger. Also space for solar and a battery could add value. Thank you for sharing your build and thoughts.
I'm planning my new garage. Cost is a big thing and will be doing a lot of work myself. The target price is under £10K
I was thinking cedar but I want to heat my garage. so will be using "Panel sell"
Single car 6.6 X 4.2
I will be insulating the concrete floor (target price about £1200) Using EPS foam (25psi) better and cheaper than XPS. reinforced base.
Already have data cables, power 16mm SDA, and water 22mm.
Lights will be 4000k color
Going for mechanical heat recovery ventilation. (about £500 very simple to do)
Nice video! I really like your garage and car collection. The wood really gives unique a character to the building. Warm and cosy. I would like to have the same in Belgium, unfortunately I don't have the space. Do you have plans to put tiles on the floor?
The floor is very dusty (being concrete) but undecided what flooring to use yet. Tiles, matting or paint have all been considered 🤷♂️
thanks for sharing - I am just going for a similar project, In Herefordshire the contractors are getting very greedy and way past my budget so I need to investigate options (hence why I am here) my opinion on your electrical sockets - too low, as I get older bending down that low becomes painfull. I am also a Boxster owner and need to get it indoors.
Im only just over the border (and I mean by a few hundred metres!) from Herefordshire into Gloucestershire. Material costs have escalated a lot since my build (although I’ve since move house/garage). It’s funny because my new place has waist high sockets which I hate. Just causes trip hazards everywhere with CTEK chargers and extension cables etc reaching down to the floor! 😂 Horses for courses I suppose. Good luck anyway and I hope you get it built 👍🏻
Nice garage. I expect you will paint the floor at some point but if not a cheap easy way of sealing the floor to stop white powder showing on tyres or anything else on the floor you can use PVA. PVA (white liquid glue basically) can be diluted 50/50 (or any ratio of your choice bearing in mind strength) and poor over the floor then swept around with a soft broom. It gives you a solid clear dust free surface. Leave it to dry properly for a day or two depending on weather/temperature. PVA is available at any DIY store like Wickes.
Thanks - it’s been on my to do list for some time 👍🏻
This is the dream. Currently running two cars and a work vehicle but looking to add a third. Can’t build a garage as we are renting but do have driveway for 1 so I will be looking to use the advise on road tax from one of your previous videos to help with cost as I shop for my next one.
Was always my dream. Expensive but worth it. What car are you thinking of buying? Sports car?
@@FastandFun Currently have a 2012 Mondeo Diesel. It’s my workhorse as it’s comfortable, reliable, all paid off and has had all the major jobs done during my ownership in the last 6 years. It’ll stay with the family until it gives up on me. Also have an older V6 Jag S Type in BRG, it’s my luxury barge. Very comfortable and lots of poke. Used to have a 10th anniversary MX5 so I’d like another 2 seater. Was looking at 987 caymans but think I’ll need to spend a little less so am shopping for mk1 BMW Z4s. Thinking the 3.0 strait 6’s.
@@MrAmos911 I looked (and test drove) both the 2.5 and 3.0 Z4 - great engines and like the look of the Z4. I also considered the 350Z. But, for cheap affordable fun, I’d also consider the mk1 MX5. Just watch out for rust in the sills, arches and chassis rails!
@@FastandFun to be honest having had the mk2 MX5 I wouldn’t get another mx5 for a while. The rust was just unsustainable. I loved the simplicity and enjoyed working on it but I’m also 6ft 5” so it wasn’t the most comfortable. Don’t know how different the Z4 is for space but hoping it’s a little better as it’s newer and bigger. If I can’t get in one of those then something like a 350Z would be good or one of the 225bhp mk1 Audi TT Quattros. To be honest I’d like all of them but for now just one more car is all I can justify.
@@MrAmos911 don’t discount the 3.2 VR6 TT either. Perhaps not the greatest drivers car but the engine is fabulous 👍🏻
As it happens, nails are better in roofing than screws, nails 'give' a bit where screws 'snap' under load, carpenters have always known this. Good build though!
Hi mate, I was thinking of doing something like this in the future and your video was a great help, thanks.
Just a question about planning permission and all that - I would like to have a 2 post lift and the current regulation on outbuildings is 2.5M max eaves height which would mean I'd only be able to raise my car about a meter off the ground which wouldn't be ideal. 3.5M or so would be ideal for a lift and being able to stand underneath your car!
Did you explore getting planning permission for a 3.5M high garage or is it just too much hassle? Are the council even likely to approve something like that?
Cheers mate.
Sorry buddy, I've only just seen your message. I'm afraid I cant help you other than to say that my roof had to be rotated through 90 degrees as it was deemed too high next to the road!
Very nice Garage may i ask what type of cladding is this? Love the weathered grey colour.
Thanks. The cladding is cedar. Initially an orange colour but weathers over the first couple of years to the silvery colour
How has it been installed it looks like its been overlapped but staggered
@@A88A88 yes that’s right. It’s overlapped. Originally I was going for the traditional horizontal slats but the builder gave me the idea of going vertical which I particularly like now 👍🏻
Lovely garage that. Price was less than what I thought when I saw the thumbnail! Did you not consider building a workshop? Car lifts?
Thanks. At the time I wanted space for cars only as I had other space for bike, tools, etc ,,, and my priority was getting 3 cars covered/garaged. However, as I’ve started doing more work on the cars I probably would have changed the design slightly.
Hi there and thanks for sharing. I will be going back to see the build etc. I am about to move home and build a three car garage there very soon. My question is did you have to apply for planning permission? how did that go etc?
Cheers Glen...
Yes, I had to go through planning but there was little to no issues. It takes around 2-3 months to go through that process 👍🏻
@@FastandFun Many thanks... No problems with being over 30m2 then?
@@whydotufaqoff no, not at all. I had to rotate the roof by 90 degrees so instead of the gable end being at the sides (as originally planned) I had to rotate so that they were front/rear so that the edge of the garage near the road was lower, but I actually prefer this orientation now.
@@FastandFun ok thanks...having just come through 3 years of planning for a simple two bed bungalow with the worse council in England (merton council) I'm nervous about planning! ;-)
I think your roof orientation suits your build better as you retain more view both sides of the apex.
I have an old mk1 3000e that I started restoring 25 years ago! (work and life got in the way) that will be building the garage for.
Many thanks
Glen...
£33k for a triple works out at just over 11k each. Bargain!
I live nearby and drive past this garage daily, tidy work, do you suggest anywhere in the area for classic car storage ..
unfortunately I don’t know anywhere but if you ever want to stop off and say hi, please do 👍🏻
Interesting insight, I’m considering building a double garage, but would be doing much of the labour myself with the help of dad.
How much would you say the cost was minus labour?
Also, may I ask why you didn’t make the garage a meter deeper so you could have tool cabinets or bits and bobs to work on the cars built within? The outside looks amazing but inside seems rather underwhelming. In saying that, I bet it fits your needs perfectly and I’m just imposing my own thoughts, sorry 😂
Difficult to say accurately because it depends on what you classify as material. Cedar cladding is very expensive, as was the high grade cement that we used. The doors were high quality too (expensive) but were installed as part of that cost too, as too was the timber lintel that traverse’s over 5m. Then there was the roof tiling which was done by a 5-6 contractors to do in a single day. Even the electric materials added up. So as a approx. estimate I’d suggest about 50% of the total build costs were materials.
We went through many different size/dimensions but deeper the garage was further forward into the drive it would go, and I still wanted a large parking/drive area out front as much as possible. Secondly, I was clear from the outside that the garage was only for hosting the cars and nothing else, I didn’t want tools kept in there for security reasons as I have other more secure places for tools/bikes and other garage type of stuff.
I hope that helps.
@@FastandFun so you have a triple garage to work on you cars but don’t have the tools in the same place…. OK
@@djewen if my plot of land hadn’t been size constrained so much then yeah of course I’d have gone a metre or so deeper (or wider) but I was right at the limit so it was either a double with large workshop or a triple and I keep my tools elsewhere in a secure lockup. My rationale for building the garage was more for storage of cars than for anything else, hence the triple.
How far is it from the boundary of your property to the side of the garage? I am trying to understand how close I can build to the boundary with breaking building regs.
Hi Matthew, just over 1 metre 👍🏻
@@FastandFun and so your allowed to build in timber. Did you measure from the outside edge of the wall or inside as I have a 0.5m thick wall. Noticed you had a fairly thick stone wall too.
Thanks for coming back to me appreciate it
@@matthewfletcher6731 I measured from the inside as I wanted to be able to walk (with a wheelbarrow) down the side of the garage.
@@FastandFun thanks
Is this looks like Drybrook
Good guess 🤣👍🏻