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[twiglet]

How big is it going to end up? Go on, make me jealous..

It's gonna be 8m x 6m with a 5m ridge. 

[aaronjb]

Bejezus that's huge.. How I'd love one that size! I stuck to the size required to keep it under building regs requirements and somewhat regret it now - the Omega doesn't fit length ways!  

[Lazydocker]

How big is it going to end up? Go on, make me jealous..

It's gonna be 8m x 6m with a 5m ridge. 

That's not a garage, it's another house!

[twiglet]

The next picture shows a fair amount of progress.  The first of MANY loads of hardcore was layed on Tarram, and wackered down.  This will create a 'haul road' to the garage, as well as provide a base for the eventual driveway...



And now we hit anothing major problem!  Whilst digging out the foundation trenches, we discovered an old 2" clay land drain, running right across the middle of the garage floor.  Consider it had been in the ground for at least 60 years, we were amazed to find it was still very free flowing.  We had a submersible pump running flat out in the trench, and it couldn't keep up with the amount of water coming out of the land drain!! 





You can see we have used 4" soil pipe to replace the clay pipes of the land drain.  We also put another perforated pipe around the foundation walls to take any surplus water away to a soakaway.

Unfortunately this, and the high water table, scuppered my plans to install an inspection pit in the garage.    However, I was never completely sold on the idea of having a pit, so this has probably done me a favour in making my mind up for me.  I've come up with another solution for doing underbody work, which I'll revisit later...

More excavation for 'additional storing buildings' behind garage...



Oh look, more hardcore!!!



More to come... 

[twiglet]

Bejezus that's huge.. How I'd love one that size! I stuck to the size required to keep it under building regs requirements and somewhat regret it now - the Omega doesn't fit length ways!  

I had this problem with the double garage at my last house.  Once the Omega was in, I couldn't even squeeze between the front bumper and the back wall.  I decided I wasn't having that problem again, so hence this one being 'slighty' oversized! 

[twiglet]

Skip forward slightly, and we have the foundation walls up.  Due to the depth (and the fact that I over-engineer everything), these were construction using 7nm blocks turned on their side, to create a 9" thick retaining wall...





And yet MORE hardcore waiting to backfill with...



You can see that things are starting to get a little congested now...





...so my next door neighbour very kindly offered to give my twin Omega's a temporary home... 



More to come... 

[YZ250]

Nice one James. 

I see your neighbour has a Barn in his garden. 

[VXL V6]

Looks good to me 

I miss my garage    Oh well, maybe one day in the future.

[twiglet]

Nice one James. 

I see your neighbour has a Barn in his garden. 

Cheers Alan.  Yeah, it's a nice bit of kit. Arrived on 1 pallet from Luthuania! 

[twiglet]

Looks good to me 

I miss my garage    Oh well, maybe one day in the future.

Cheers Andy.  I know how you feel mate.  I can't wait to get this one finished. 

[omega3000]

Looking good , have you left room for the snooker table and bar 

[twiglet]

Right, next problem... 

The driveway at the front of the house was just shingle, and I didn't expect it to have much in the way of a sub-base due to the ruts in it from the cars being parked on it.  I had planned to to pull it up once the garage was finished, and put a complete new drive in, but I had hoped that it would stand up to a few lorries running on it.  As you can see, it didn't!!















And I also have the 'little' problem of approx. 120 tonne of topsoil to shift... 



More to come... 

[Sam Burton]

And I also have the 'little' problem of approx. 120 tonne of topsoil to shift...

Christ!!! He must have loved his Carrots  

[twiglet]

And I also have the 'little' problem of approx. 120 tonne of topsoil to shift...

Christ!!! He must have loved his Carrots  

Don't I know it!! 

[twiglet]

At this point, we couldn't even get any of the cars on the driveway, without fear of getting stuck!  So I decided to move all the spare top soil into a heap in the front garden, ready to be collected at a later date.  Then we dug out the old driveway and laid and compacted yet more hardcore over Tarram.  This has given use a good temporary driveway, and will again serve welll as a sub-base for the final driveway eventually...







Meanwhile...

I ran all of the service ducts in and out of the garage, and backfiled the base with hardcore and compacted it...



The base was then loaded out with the steel mesh and Celotex insulation for the floor, and the all important bricks...





So I guess you could say we are FINALLY out of the ground!! 

More to come...