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Thanks for the advice - I painted previous garages and your right it makes a huge difference. There is no point doing that here cuz I will be insulating and boarding it out. Although that might take a while to get to it.

And now I find myself standing in the middle of the garage looking at all my **** trying to work out where to put things. Arrtfggghhh decisions !!!!! Sent from my iPhone using The Garage Journal mobile app

Been a while since the last update..... So I am still waiting for my builder to come back to finish the last little section of the roof and fit all of the ridge tiles. But as the felt is keeping the rain out better than my metal shed is at the moment I decided to crack on and get the door...

Thanks - but it wasn’t my birthday!!! Lol. Got another 18 years before my 60th!!!!! Sent from my iPhone using The Garage Journal mobile app

I finally got to see the weeks progress on Saturday morning..... A quick trip to buildbase (local builders merchant) who have a small timber mill got me sorted out with the wood for framing the garage door. But family duties then called and had to head down to London for a surprise 60th...

Well my builder said he would be back today to start the roof. - And he was!! Sorry about the pictures as we lost the light just before I got home! So by the end of the week I should be fully roofed. Windows and pedestrian doors fitted early part of next week we hope! Electrics in on Tuesday...

The first job is lined up as soon as I get a roof on the garage. I bought the wife another “runabout” as the current one is getting too rusty to pass another MOT. She loves her little Mercs so I picked this one up last weekend. 2.1 litre 140bhp and weighs about 1100kg. So it will be quite...

First thanks to the subscribers- I will try to keep the updates fairly regular. Well I am a car guy first and foremost. I was on the spanner’s (aka a mechanic) for a good few years. But I am also too cheap to pay someone else to make / fix if I can do it myself! So the work shop will have to...

So I’ve been able to get some pictures and bump some blocks off the driveway and have a good sort out this weekend. Had a bit of a bonfire with the bushes that got ripped out and some more scrap wood from the house extension and the off cut of laminate flooring I laid indoors. This is the...

Update !! Current situation is the builder had been back for a day and a half. So the walls are now up to roof height. But due to lack of daylight I have been unable to get any pictures yet. I am told that the roof trusses are going to be delivered in a weeks time. So just back to...

That was the original plan. But the apple and plum trees had to stay. (In house planning department insisted). Also may not have got permission from the council if I had to remove 8 trees. It’s also a long way to go in the rain.. a much more expensive driveway and more difficult to run...

Yep that was a fast bit of progress..... now I am struggling to get anything done..... My builder put the block work guys back a few days cuz he wasn’t ready for them to start now they have left to do another job leaving mine unfinished and me wondering when they will return. I am also waiting...

Only one picture as I got into a discussion with wifey about “did you realise how big it is gonna be?” And. “It’s all I can see from the house”...... Sent from my iPhone using The Garage Journal mobile app

The blocks are gonna be rendered with white self coloured render - so no painting the outside for many years! The inside will be insulated and boarded. I am not 100% sure wether to use plaster board or OSB at the moment. As I love the clean look the plaster gives I am leaning that way. But I...