Home Garage re-build (of sorts)

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As long as they leave me with the cars I would be happy

not sure about that, my daughters already asking who gets what on the car fronto_O, crazy idea but forget balcony and go for glass floor what better way to get yourself to sleep whilst staring at your pride and joy ;)
 

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Aha, a garage thread! I’m just in the middle of dealing with mine.
Wife and I bough a 1980s house some years ago and have been busy with a rather large refurb inside and out.. in fact, we only left the 2 gable ends standing.
Here’s the back of the house before and after:

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You can spot the existing garage to the left on the second pic. TBC
 

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Unfortunately the existing garage was not exactly built for cars in that the garage doors were tiny at 209 cm wide each. So I needed to deal with that once the house was complete.
The plan was to match the garage to the house with the same zinc roof, brickwork cladding and windows doors plus a small extension. Unfortunately due to Covid-19 it is not currently possible to get the materials for the roof and the extension so I have had to come up with a temporary solution. Here is the garage as it was:

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I started the garage conversion last week, I needed to demolish the downstairs inside and remove an existing toilet/shower room (who needs that when there’s room for another car!)
Then I needed to take down the entire front brickwork in order to reduce the side reveals and remove the central brick pillars:

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The new 9 meter wide 203 steel beam should be fitted on Saturday along with 100 mm supporting steel posts. Once that is in place we can measure up for the 3 insulated roller shutter doors which should now be in the region of 250-260 cm wide each... an extra half meter width per door. That should be the end of folding mirrors in and being 20 mm away from scraping your door!
Will update here as I progress. To the original poster, apologies for the small hijack of thread, but seemed the appropriate place to post garage pics
 

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Had the quotes for mine (2 bay and office single story) in an oak frame... with roof, groundworks, services and finish it came in at c £100k!!!... so back to drawing boards.

Some people see a big and/or nice house and just assume you have money to burn. Before lockdown I got a quote from a local architect to get permission for the outbuilding for cars and make some internal alterations to the 2nd floor which has no features of architectural interest. For his 'basic' package he quoted £6k +VAT to get permission for the internal works and £6.5k +VAT to get permission for the outbuilding - needless to say I declined his services.
 

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Some people see a big and/or nice house and just assume you have money to burn. Before lockdown I got a quote from a local architect to get permission for the outbuilding for cars and make some internal alterations to the 2nd floor which has no features of architectural interest. For his 'basic' package he quoted £6k +VAT to get permission for the internal works and £6.5k +VAT to get permission for the outbuilding - needless to say I declined his services.
Absolutely correct. I got a quote for oak veneered shelving for my wine room from a company for £13500! In the end I bought the oak veneered plywood myself, ordered some pre-made metal racking and built it together with a carpenter friend for around £2500 all inc.72348
 
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Local builders has now quoted for a double garage, single story, twin skin in block a cotswold stone, footing, base and roof... £28k. Office to go on top of that, but.suspect c £10k for thay bit and £10k to fit out, tile.and utilities.
 

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any reason why you're going for 3 doors instead of 1 or 2, less pillars to worry about hitting/missing
I would need an enormous steel to span 9 meters without support and that would rob all my head room which already is on the low side. 2 doors would have to be 1 small and 1 double and that would just look odd I think. With 3 doors at 2.6 meters each there’s plenty of room to get in and out.
 

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Absolutely correct. I got a quote for oak veneered shelving for my wine room from a company for £13500! In the end I bought the oak veneered plywood myself, ordered some pre-made metal racking and built it together with a carpenter friend for around £2500 all inc.View attachment 72348
Some nice looking Viu Manent in the background. One track mind!
 

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I'm just starting a new garage/man cave project to house the 356 that I intend to restore there. The stradale lives in the house (literally). The floor size of the new garage can only be 5.6x5.6m (I live in the middle of the city). I would like to have just one very wide door, like 5m wide. What type of door would you recommed? Up and over? How heavy are those things?
 

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I'm just starting a new garage/man cave project to house the 356 that I intend to restore there. The stradale lives in the house (literally). The floor size of the new garage can only be 5.6x5.6m (I live in the middle of the city). I would like to have just one very wide door, like 5m wide. What type of door would you recommed? Up and over? How heavy are those things?

if i remember correctly the insulated residential roller doors only go up to aprox 3/4m, Hormann do commercial grade insulated doors that are still suitable for residential in various finishes and colours and available up to a 10m width, excellent motor with chain overide should you have a power cut, i have one of their 7m doors and can vouch for the build and quality, not cheap but the best imo
 

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thanks for the reply.

how about something like this: http://ducasseindustrial.com/corredera-d-300-pl.html
basically a concertina type solution, the doors pull to one side. As my case the garage will not be used daily, probably only take the car out once a week, it may be a nice simple solution.

would of thought a concertina door would be a whole heap trouble eventually, roller door would be a lot simpler and trouble free
 

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Local builders has now quoted for a double garage, single story, twin skin in block a cotswold stone, footing, base and roof... £28k. Office to go on top of that, but.suspect c £10k for thay bit and £10k to fit out, tile.and utilities.
A chap up the road from me had a double garage built 2 years ago with local stone ('Brockram'- sandstone / limestone mix), Westmoreland slate toof tiles ( pitch roof), window, up and over steel garage door, side door and all guttering, locks fitted etc for £13k! Cumbrian prices. And it looks really good.