My rant for the day,
Never mind building sports cars built for £250 some one should write a book on how to build a decent size shed or garage for under £250 they'd make a fortune!
Seriously a builder friend of mine told me that to errect a brick built garage cost about £15000
Any one got any ideas how to make a decent shed on a budget?
Craig

do it yourself. foundations are easy, brick laying is easy if you arent a perfectionist, and roofing is just carpentry.

readers digest DIY book is massive and covers everything!

I heard someone say that befor it looked a bit of a mess so he had it pebble dashed looked a lot better and it is still standing 15 years later

have a practace with a BBQ.
some people can do it and some carn't it and some can do it with some practace its as simple as that.

You could try this http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3149166033&category=30

But seriously try Ebay or Loot for precast concrete units.

Gordon

The house we moved into has a small "Barn" 'bout 20X18ft earth floor Yet to be concreted but got power got water got radio and building a locost. This can't be so expensive and diy capable timber joining 3 metal frames with corrogated roof and wooden shiplap for the sides with lots of nails or nail gun. Proposed time three days and that is with time for coffee breakes

Stats

how big do you want you garage it should be proper man size with apex roof and cavaty wall for 15000

was watching that inventors program on sky the other day, some guy had come up with the idea of brick "teabags". The idea being that you stick the teabag (full of mortar mix) between two bricks then pour water down the holes, the poly bag dissolves leaving behind a prefectly formed mortar. Bloody easy if you ask me!

I helped my Dad erect a concrete section garage, they're often in the local ads as Gordon suggests, we knew a builder at the time who was erecting a new garage, we just had to go and collect the old one before it was dumped for hardcore...

Ned.

If you live in a rural area or just want to P the neighbours off consider getting a refrigerater box body off of a lorry. They are quite cheap, insulated, secure and with the addition of a few second hand windows and skylights make excellent garages.

Mick

if you leave the refrigerator unit on you will have air con for the summer lol

There are local planning regs regarding siting and sizes of sheds and garages - check yours before doing anything. In Northants, anything over 10 mtrs cubed volume is likely to need permission. thats a fairly small shed...

atb

steve

if its on wheels you dont need permission i think. doesnt necessarily need to move, just have a castor on each corner!

JC got a russian warplane in his garden with no permission even though its huge.

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Originally posted by JoelP
if its on wheels you dont need permission i think. doesnt necessarily need to move, just have a castor on each corner!

JC got a russian warplane in his garden with no permission even though its huge.

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thought it was a harrier

its alot easier to land a harrier than a lightning in your back garden

that rich git clarkson probably has space for a damn runway anyway! actually i like the bloke, but its a bit mad innit? buying a warplane....

steve, i dont actually know what plane it was i just guessed russian cos not many countries would sell warplanes to civilians, russia probably would!

[Edited on 16/10/03 by JoelP]

"its alot easier to land a harrier than a lightning in your back garden"

Both are as easy to land in your garden, but the former would have a much greater chance of taking off again!


Steve was right, the barn I was using has planning permission as an agricultural building, but locost building is not considered as agricultural use, so planning regs and one old git neighbour means building in the back garden alfresco. Old git now has a locost being built 6 feet from his kitchen window instead of 50 feet away in a fairly soundproof barn!

its amazing that some neighbours would even bother souring relations by moaning about what you do in your own goddam barn. bloody fools, i think we have the last laugh anyway.

I have a friend who has similar problems. Living in a converted barn looses you all normal rules eg conservatories, garages, porches etc all need planning permission. The garage block he built for his cars is down as agricultural - tractor restoration (the tractors now live outside

Ned.

A guy up at work wanted to build a shop in the lot behind his house.He built a shop to look like a horse barn,complete with bridals hanging on the wall outside,a weather vane,a feed barrel ect...One would never guess it was a shop from the outside.Neighbors never said a thing and according to him they normally b!tch about everything.

someday,Fletch

I've got a 20ft container on order cost £200 literaly waiting for it to fall off the back of a wagon clad it in timber put a cheap roof on it, if the neighbours don't like it they can go F##k themselves when i move it goes with me