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JayG60 said:Mine is a fairly wide single at 3.6m. It's also a little over the top with a recessed 3.5 tonne scissor lift. My favourite place to be though.
I had an electric door installed earlier this year. It's better than sex.......I am 65 though911tom said:Phil 997 said:Mine lives outside while the bikes, go carts, scooters , live in the garage :x but have the builders here knocking up an outhouse so the kids stuff can go in there and i might finally get to put the car away , bit of a pain having to keep getting it out as I drive it most days. :thumb:
Electric door is the answer to that. Save time scraping ice in the winter so should be easier.
Cybot7 said:I had an electric door installed earlier this year. It's better than sex.......I am 65 though
rabbitstew said:My turbo lives on the drive, as my double garage is full of my gym equipment and motorbikes etc, however I have just extended it into a 5m x 12m garage so I am hoping I should be able to get the turbo inside over winter.
Cost wise, adding a 5 x 6metre extension on the back of the garage cost me around £16,000 including a new £2000 horman electric sectional double garage door on the front, 2 new rear windows and a steel security personnel door on the back. The garage has brick walls & flat roof.
At my old house I had a purpose build wooden garage / work shop, in which you could easily get 4 cars. That came in slightly cheaper. That was built in wooden sections on a reinforced concrete slab, with shiplap on the outside and osb board inside with a pitched roof.
Costs can add up depending on where you want to draw the line. I just replaced all my fluorescent tube lights in the garage with LED versions and that alone came to £400, however the difference in brightness is huge. Also painting the walls white helps. For the floor, I got 20litres of industrial floor paint off ebay for about £40 which worked out loads cheaper than buying those 5litre tins of floor paint from screwfix.
Addo said:JayG60 said:Mine is a fairly wide single at 3.6m. It's also a little over the top with a recessed 3.5 tonne scissor lift. My favourite place to be though.
That looks like great project and fantastic garage to do the work in!
I have been looking into a lift for my garage, i can fit a 2/4 post hydralic lift but dont really like the look of them and wont use that much. I have seen a few differnet options on ebay around £1k.
Having never purchased one what are the good makes to buy? Did you go surface or concelled and id so, how deep do you have to cut the floor slab to get yours flush 300mm?
The Dunlop DSL 3T high rise (1.9m) looks good.
http://www.gemco.co.uk/product/dsl3-3-tonne-full-rise-scissor-lift/
Some pics would be good.
Wh1t3Kn1ght said:Thanks Rabbitstew,
Place I'm moving into is a bungalow with a single garage joined on the end (pitched roof). Looks like brick on the outside and breeze block inside (plastered) so I would probably be looking at extending it using the same construction out to the side.
I guess best thing is to get some quotes from local builders once moved in and then start saving!
PorscheNewbie2020 said:Does anyone have any idea if a 992 will fit in a single
Garage?