Colthebrummie
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Shame it's not solid concrete, you might have been able to squeeze a car lift in the middle of the floor.
Col
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Stretch
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I'm sure I can't afford to get one at the moment!
Also I wouldn't want to restrict the space I've got by planting an effing big lift in the middle - though I have seen a forklift type "one post" type lift design that you can move about...
...the planned carport will be on a different piece of ground and that will have a reinforced concrete base. That isn't gonna happen too soon though. First I need to build another shed to move the gardening crap out of the way of the car crap so I can then demolish the magical leaning tarpaulin covered wooden garage before it falls down (!)
Barge Pilot
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I had to look up what Spano V313 is but we have used that when renovating the house. Can't vouch for the quality you've got but we used a big piece as our doorstep. Just for a weeks, you know, until I'd fabricated a permanent doorstep.
As things go, that took 3 years and to my amazement, that Spano board was as sturdy as it was when we put it there. And it had been in sun, rain, snow and ice for all those years. Great stuff.
Stretch
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Oh wow - thanks for that.
I really would not expect it to last that long. Good to know that what I thought was a budget decision, might turn out to be a good choice after all!
Even so I'm still lusting after some really nice Steenschotten or perhaps some Douglas to make the floor have a feeling of quality. This probably won't happen as I don't believe in paying more than 10 euros a square meter for sheet material...
...it seems like I've turned in Darryl Kerrigan in the film The Castle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Castle_(1997_Australian_film)) - always waiting on some cheap cladding...
[Really old film - but still a classic - especially with the endless building renovations]
Stretch
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Forget to ask - have you got your carport built?
Colthebrummie
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There is loads of cheap secondhand cladding in Britain currently, one one previous owner.
Col
Stretch
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If Panorama has got it right (last night's program) it will probably be fly tipped.
Colthebrummie
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Barge Pilot
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Yes I sure did. I started with a big slab of reinforced concrete!
With a big ol' hole for a midsize scissor lift. I welded galvanized steel tubes (50mm x 100mm) together to make a frame, roofing consists of multiwall polycarbonate panels and the aluminum mounting profiles for those panels I simply glued to the steel tubes. Prevents that Land Rover disease, galvanic corrosion, as well.
<-- Land Rover content!We weren't allowed to build a one car garage because the municipality designated that corner of our plot as Front Garden, even though it's enclosed by 3 Back Gardens and not visible from a public road.
But a 3m high carport was within the rules - so that's what I built. Now it's off hunting for a fitting scissor lift.
I see Darryl likes to add tacky renovations to his house - his castle. I can relate to that!
Somehow I missed the updates to this thread. I blame old age. How is the garage coming along?
Stretch
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Yes I sure did. I started with a big slab of reinforced concrete!
View attachment 237811 <-- Land Rover content!
We weren't allowed to build a one car garage because the municipality designated that corner of our plot as Front Garden, even though it's enclosed by 3 Back Gardens and not visible from a public road.
Now it's off hunting for a fitting scissor lift.
I see Darryl likes to add tacky renovations to his house - his castle. I can relate to that!
Somehow I missed the updates to this thread. I blame old age. How is the garage coming along?
Nice car port - good height.
In my varied experiences with Dutch civil servants the "advice" the public get is more often than not related to what is written in the rule book. Most of the time it is all about ego - they need to feel important. I've had "discussions" with council planning departments when they have supposedly followed a procedure of assessing the planning laws but it is obvious that THEY can not understand Dutch legal texts. I've had to point out that even though I am English I can speak, read and understand Dutch - and so have asked why they struggle their own language when a core element of their employment is to regulate what is written in law...
...things don't always go smoothly!
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Speaking of "not going smoothly" - the garage progress has been delayed by weakness - I've been a weed - not very well recently.
Things continue to move at a much slower pace than I would ever have thought likely!
Next weekend I hope to go and get some of the loose crap from the storage place so I can start to fill the nice empty space with stuff that might eventually end up being fitted to vehicles.
Barge Pilot
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I have a strong opinion on civil servants - since I am one, I suppose I am entitled to. The amount of rules in this country is staggering and they are mostly annoying to people wouldn't break them anyway. Oh well.
Get better soon and I'm looking forward to progress on the garage!
The amount of rules in this country is staggering and they are mostly annoying to people wouldn't break them anyway. Oh well. Get better soon and I'm looking forward to progress on the garage!
Stretch
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I have a strong opinion on civil servants - since I am one, I suppose I am entitled to.
Get better soon and I'm looking forward to progress on the garage!
I don't wish to be contrary but I think there are often massive gaps in the rules of this country it often seems like the parliament ran out of debating time and the job was only half done. For example I don't understand why normal citizens can not warn the raad voor de veiligheid about problems:- Recently one of the few infrastructure companies employed some idiots to come and replace a bit of gas pipe for my house. They did this "to make it safe" - unfortunately they destroyed the (electrical) earth system whilst replacing the pipe. One bit was meant to be made safer - the other was left in a very unsafe condition. It turned out I needed to get lawyers involved because there is no formal way of getting numpties to pull up their socks and do their jobs properly. The council didn't want to know - they said speak to the fire brigade - they said WTF => if you get an elecritcal fire then we can help. Sometimes I think there should be more rules - sorry!
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Anyway this weekend I'm off to the storage unit to get the first bits of crap. The new garage (which still isn't finished because the cost of sheet materials have gone up by about 60% because instead of having holidays people are making loads of home improvements) will be full of junk that will probably take months to sort...
Stretch
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Mini update:-
Building progress on the workshop has stalled due to the silly costs of building materials. I used to pay 8 euros 50 cent for a bit of sheet material - now it costs 22 euros 50 a sheet. I'm not playing the game. Teddy's out the cot...
...so I'm doing my best to carry on with life and at least stop paying rent for storage.
Three of my four vehicles have been moved to my new place of residence (sounds posh when you call it a residence eh?). Even so I'm doing my best to keep the house prices in my area affordable by adding lots of nice blue plastic for that "tent city" look =>
Building progress on the workshop has stalled due to the silly costs of building materials. I used to pay 8 euros 50 cent for a bit of sheet material - now it costs 22 euros 50 a sheet. I'm not playing the game. Teddy's out the cot...
...so I'm doing my best to carry on with life and at least stop paying rent for storage.
Three of my four vehicles have been moved to my new place of residence (sounds posh when you call it a residence eh?). Even so I'm doing my best to keep the house prices in my area affordable by adding lots of nice blue plastic for that "tent city" look =>
Stretch
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How rude:-
I can assure you mine is a very very very long way from being sorted out
In fact I can proudly announce it looks a lot worse than it did when I bought it (and that's saying something cos it was the worst example I could find)
Progress? Ha I laugh in the face of progress - all that trendy positivity bollocks - things will only get worse here!
Colthebrummie
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I put a new horn on mine a couple of years ago, does that count as a resto
Col
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Stretch
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Colthebrummie
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Buying the new bits is the easiest part, its getting off your arse that many of us struggle with.
Col
