zilspeed
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| posted on 17/5/04 at 07:34 PM |
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Need a cheap quick 'garage' ?
If like me, you need a quick and inexpensive 'garage' for your car, this might work for you.
I had the space but no inclination to build a small seperate garage. I am more likely to build something more permanent and integral to the house in
due course.
Here is my temporary 'dry space' in which the car is kept. It is exactly the size it needs to be and no bigger. It is also bone dry inside
- where it matters. Total cost was £89 including delivery for the necessary 72m of 3"x2" CLS.
Here the car is hanging out of the garage.
Here the car is all the way in.
It took me about 3 hours all in and the car has been absolutely bone dry ever since. Not perfect or permanent, but if you need somewhere to keep your
car at home.....
[Edited on 17/5/04 by zilspeed]
[Edited on 17/5/04 by zilspeed]
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Mark H
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| posted on 18/5/04 at 09:16 AM |
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pretty good solution! You a midget then?
Mark Harrison and
Q986 KCP back from the dead...
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 18/5/04 at 09:43 AM |
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wait until your first windy day comes along............
atb
steve
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zilspeed
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| posted on 18/5/04 at 03:01 PM |
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First windy day !!!!??????
You've got to be joking !!
Up here in ScotchLand every day is a windy day. That's why it is just big enough and no more - less space for the howling gale to fill and carry
it off up the street. It is fixed to the fence as well. Still - I won't say that it won't ever go for a wee fly ;-)
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SeaBass
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| posted on 18/5/04 at 03:49 PM |
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lol I laughed at that Northamptonshire perspective on the weather too...
Neat solution. When I first started building I had no garage to store finished article.
Just managed to get one at the last minute (aren't old people great!).
Cheers
JC
[Edited on 18/5/04 by SeaBass]
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MikeP
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| posted on 18/5/04 at 04:23 PM |
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Pretty neat.
I'd like to see a picture of whatever vehicle is attached to the blue roll over bar in the middle of the first picture  .
Hmm, maybe the wife is right, I am obsessed and I have started seeing these damn cars everywhere .
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Peteff
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| posted on 18/5/04 at 05:41 PM |
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I think I'd have put a slope on the roof or a ridge. It'll be like an overhead paddling pool when it rains. It's heavy stuff when it
gathers in market stall canvas and if that's builders DPC, which it looks like, it doesn't like being in daylight for long. I
wouldn't like you to come to your car in a couple of weeks and find it brimming.
yours, Pete
I went into the RSPCA office the other day. It was so small you could hardly swing a cat in there.
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zilspeed
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| posted on 18/5/04 at 06:47 PM |
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A couple of points if I may :-)
This is definitely a temporary solution.
Yes the covering is visqueen - didn't know it disliked sunlight - UV I guess - but that makes sense now you mention it.
It is sitting on a slope and drains to the front.
It has been up a month now and keeps the car dry and hasn't flown off - yet....
Now I've bought the trailer, I intend
converting it into a box for taking the car to track days and events and for storing it in. That's until a permanent garage is built.
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SeaBass
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| posted on 18/5/04 at 06:55 PM |
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Zilspeed I've got an idea.. Don't park your nice Locost in there fill it with crap like most cunny funts. Nothing that pisses me off more
than garages full of crap not being used.
Cheers
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zilspeed
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| posted on 18/5/04 at 07:01 PM |
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You mean like most garages in the country ;-)
The guy across the street from me has an MX5 which has never been in his garage because there's no room - go figure. As well as that, I have now
done a few conversions of garages into bedrooms for people ( I was a joiner originally before I was rescued ).
It's enough to make you cry....
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 18/5/04 at 09:46 PM |
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Winds are nothing. 
The day after I started to extend my garage we had an earthquake! - the one of a couple years ago.
atb
steve
quote:
Originally posted by SeaBass
lol I laughed at that Northamptonshire perspective on the weather too...
Neat solution. When I first started building I had no garage to store finished article.
Just managed to get one at the last minute (aren't old people great!).
Cheers
JC
[Edited on 18/5/04 by SeaBass]
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SeaBass
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| posted on 19/5/04 at 07:19 AM |
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That the one with epicentre in Derby! lol??
Cheers
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stephen_gusterson
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| posted on 19/5/04 at 09:45 AM |
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somewhere near there. it was VERY noticable in Northants. About 8 secs or rumbling and the house gave a little jolt at the end. I had just put a
doorway and lintel in the garage and my first thought was the garage had fallen down!
atb
steve
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