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haha. yeah i thought about the garage idea!! all the steels are in place but i havent had chance to take pictures of the up to date progress. i had a steel bracket manufactured at work which i will anchor into the wall and also bolt the steel to, for the issue of having no pier. i really...

havent posted for a while but heres a few more pics to wet ur appetite!! :lol: hopefully all will be water tight by the end of the weekend. having the box gutter made this week and a bit more timber to finish it off.

hi neil. im doing a similar sort of build at the moment. you can see the thread further down the page. i personally wouldnt go for a cavity wall. ive gone for a single skin blockwork wall with piers. as people have said already, you will lose alot of space having the cavity and extra block...

i see what ur saying now. we was going to put a steel in there. trouble is i didnt want to have one so close to the opening as it will make the gap smaller to get vehicles into the garage. he's probably reading this. we'll have a chat about it on saturday when he comes. would it be an issue...

oh i see. well its roughly in line with the wheelie bin in the pic. about centre of the wall. is that wrong?

yeah a pier has been built in on the back wall. also a pier will be built at the front in between the door and window. and concrete lintels are going above the door and window and also a steel lintel is going across the opening from the existing garage.

he is yes, if they wanted to set a buy it now price then they should. its more expensive to add a buy it now price to the auction. cant really get annoyed with the seller as they can sell there item however they like. but it is a bit annoying. its happened a couple of times to me.

because alot of people send the sellers messages asking to buy out of auction. i must admit im one for asking for a buy it now price.

heres a few update pictures for you people to have a look at. this was done a couple of weekends ago. took half a day to do and lots of barrowing. there were six of us in total. 2 tamping and 4 on the wheel barrows. it took 9 and a half metres of concrete to fill. i filled down the edges of...

oh i got that one wrong about the roof. lol to be honest im not sure how the roof is going to be constructed. you will have to ask "plug" on this site. he's sorting that issue out. all im going to do is help him do it. i should be ok with the gutters and such as im not right up to the boundry...

heres a very basic picture of the view i will see from my garden. im going to cover over the glass sliding doors with frost vinyl (so as still to let light in but block peoples view.) the drawing is quite near to scale. so there wont be much block work to do on that side!! :lol: this is the...

hahaha. i hate to waste it!! :lol: there is a little space but not really any to build the roof off. i know it will make it difficult but thats just something il have to get over. il have to build as much as i can from the inside and struggle with the rest. i think i understand what u mean by...

cool. il make it out of aluminium then. well the distance from the 2 walls is 550mm so it will probably work out about 450 - 500mm. wont really know till were up to that level and doing the roof. heres a couple of pics from the weekends events. it didnt go aswell as id of hoped. we only...

yeah i never really thought about the cost of the lead. dohhh :lol: well the distance will be over 2 metres probably. would it be an option to make it out of aluminium as i could have something fabricated at work? why would i need steps over that distance?

yeah thats sounds to me like the right term i was looking for :lol: the opening is going to be around 400 - 500mm. that would be ok wouldnt it? im a total novice when it comes to this. the only thing im going by is that im not going to leave any place for water to settle or get in to any joints.

:lol: yeah im not really sure exactly how the roof is going to turn out but i have a little idea of how it will go. im going for just a normal pitched roof. the new garage roof shouldnt interfere really with the old one as the 2 walls will be spaced away from each other. the only place it...

just looked at the date of my last post!! was it really that long ago. well things have moved on a little since then!! they ground has been dug out and the bottom wall knocked out. all the hardcore has been spread and about 4 ton of sand over the top of that!! ive dug a trench all the way...

hahaha. i did think about the gift idea. :lol: dont know why but im a little nervous. probably heading for an arguement!! once ive had her step-dad round im going to get ringing about for prices. the annoying thing is she works for brett, which supply alot of the builders merchants. trouble...

just tried to run it on vista, it didnt work. i added the file to system32 aswell.

never had to find about the price of a block work building. what sort of money do you guys reckon im looking at for a 7m x 10m and 8ft high for the labour and materials for the block work? the slab is going to be 150 thick. yeah i planned on doing that. was quite surprised about how many people...