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Post by joe on Oct 27, 2013 8:25:01 GMT
Hello all. I've not done much Dafing of late as I've been sorting out other bits a bobs in my life. Anyway to cut a long story short I have a new house and with it something I've always wanted, a Garage! ![](http://i40.tinypic.com/2w6gemb.jpg) As you can see, standard concrete affair. With a rather patchwork roof. Well I'd only have a very quick look when we went to view the house and since the rest of it is perfect I overlooked it's tattyness. ![](http://i42.tinypic.com/16ia546.jpg) From the front it doesn't look too bad, except the door that doesn't seem to close properly. and a bit of a dodgy roof. ![](http://i40.tinypic.com/2mxo083.jpg) Yea, that doesn't look great.....lets look inside.... ![](http://i40.tinypic.com/v66s2b.jpg) WTF is that? All I know is it's quite solid, heavy and dry (unlike the rest of the garage). The rest of the roof seems to be covered in something that I presume is illegal and carcinogenic these days. ![](http://i39.tinypic.com/2h6vl2t.jpg) Yep, that is a a piece of vinyl flooring nailed onto the top of the wall to try and stop the exposed electrics from getting wet and killing everyone. ![](http://i43.tinypic.com/wl5g92.jpg) It is also, due to the huge gap between wall and roof, and the numerous holes in it completely piss wet through everywhere! I'd park Goldie in it with a car cover on if I could get the garage door to stay open. But it won't as it is also comprehensively broken. It came down and smashed me on the head when I tried to jam it open yesterday. Time to go back to the drawing board I think.
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Post by andrew on Oct 27, 2013 8:37:02 GMT
I LOVE old garages... I found a 1978 Lada 1500 in one once... Attachment DeletedThe solicitor was embarrassed that he'd not realised there was a car left in a house which he had been employed to sell & needed it cleared out quickly. Andrew (& "A" frame) to the rescue... After some correspondence with the DVLA & a covering letter from the solicitor I became the a proud owner of a Lada, which subsequently appeared (albeit VERY briefly!) in the film "The Seasoning House."
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Post by andrejuan on Oct 27, 2013 9:52:36 GMT
Joe From the look of it, you have room for a triple garage there !!! A pre-fab could be up in a day ![:D](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/grin.png) You know you want to.
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Post by 33grinder on Oct 27, 2013 11:13:14 GMT
Yeah, knock it down and build bigger and better.
Triple garage? You could get at least six cars in there...who needs lawn anyway, it's just one more thing to faff about with when you could be playing cars.
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Post by daydoodler on Oct 27, 2013 20:13:17 GMT
think about it Joe bigger garage equals less grass to cut and let garden to tend, obvious innit
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Post by Patrick on Oct 28, 2013 1:21:19 GMT
Yup! a Good solid asbestos roof there! Similar design to ours. Putting up a Double will mean less fencing too! ![:)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/smiley.png)
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Post by andrejuan on Oct 28, 2013 11:59:56 GMT
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Post by joe on Nov 1, 2013 7:56:10 GMT
A double would be far too much, I'm skint. Any new garage is going to have to wait until next year anyway. I'm just putting a kitchen in (not one advertised on here mind) and it's killing me!
But a new sleek Dafcave will be coming......at some point.
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Post by joe on Dec 30, 2013 22:44:32 GMT
I did get her briefly inside the garage, but then the door collapsed in on itself again. Which is a bugger to say the least. ![](http://i43.tinypic.com/2unyt0x.jpg) It was nice to have a garage, even just for a day.
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