Re: My newest garage project
Holy thread resurrection Batman.
All sorts of things have happened since I last posted here. Namely, the garage has
finally been finished, and the last piece of UPVC trim put on the gable ends.
Alas and alack, I have had to leave the dream garage behind as we have moved to the other side of the planet to live, back to the Philippines, where my wife is from, where my daughter was born, and I where I lived from 1993 until 2002.
But all is not lost, as we bought 300sq metres of land and a new garage is being built as we speak:
Oh, and a house as well, but they conveniently (correctly) started the garage first.
This one is a bit bigger than the last, at 6metres by 8 metres, or 20' x 26' in real money. it is all concrete construction, with plenty of re-bar in as we live in an earthquake zone.
The floor was cast in four pieces, with crack joints, as the builder says it will move and will crack. He is an American who has started a building company in the Philippines, and is a bit of a concrete expert apparently and lives and breathes the stuff. He has a team of local guys working for him and they certainly seem to be producing some tidy work.
I even have a small bathroom in the corner, with shower.
The roof is single plane, and will be tile-finish steel, 15' high at the top, so nobody can nip over the back yard wall and jump onto the roof easily. Security is a bit of an issue and we have an 8 foot wall around the property.
I'm offshore working now, so I won't see it for another couple of weeks. Progress has slowed, as they are now concentrating on the house, but getting the garage to this stage, this early, was a master move on my behalf I beleive.
