20/07/08 -  Side (S) elevation of garage  - scaffolding down and on Ebay (auction #320276668470!)

20/07/08 -  Rear (W) elevation of garage  - with owl box...

20/07/08 -  Front elevation of garage  - main door (open) ...

20/07/08 -  Front elevation of garage  - main door (closed - note wicket door) installed with temporary in-fill...

20/06/08 -  Front elevation of garage eave close-up...

20/06/08 -  Front (E) elevation of garage complete, less main door...

14/05/08 -  East gable cladding complete.  Awaiting oak barge boards and up & over door frame incorporating a wicket door.  This is going to be clad in a 12mm skin of herring bone T&G oak.

14/05/08 -  Ridge complete and South-side cladding on (deck will sit just below cladding skirt).

26/04/08 -  Ridge started and first bit of cladding on (wall).

26/04/08 -  Stairs raised and locked (no main door for a while...)

26/04/08 -  Temporary stairs for the garage loft.

19/04/08 - The big black square is where the PV panels will go (eventually).

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30/03/08 -  Eve detail showing ventilation strip and felt support tray (which will sit into the gutter).  Oak facias to come (between tray and pine facia support board) ...

30/03/08 -  First couple of rows of tiles on....

29/03/08 -  Garage roof battened....

27/03/08 -  Barge board support structure up.  These will have oak boards attached to math the house and they will be screwed on from the back to avoid all that screw hole patching malarkey.

26/03/08 -  First floor floor down secure and East gable weather-tight.

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16/03/08 -  First floor floor going down...

15/03/08 -  External scaffold going up...

15/03/08 -  Internal scaffold coming down...

14/03/08 -  Floor joists going in.  These are the reclaimed wall studs from the old house.

13/03/08 -  Cladding battens go on.  These also stiffen the walls....

10/02/08 -  Inside of West Gable.

10/02/08 -  West Gable weather-tight.

06/02/08 -  Insulation complete and roof weather-proof (apart from the window!)...

05/02/08 -  (inside)...

05/02/08 - Nearly done one side (outside)...

30/01/08 - The insulation from in the inside - close up...

30/01/08 - The insulation from in the inside...

30/01/08 - The first batch of insulation and counter-battens installed...

30/01/08 - A bit of weather-proofing...

29/01/08 - Rafters in.... (the gap is for a future window)

29/01/08 - Rafters going in....

22/01/08 - All steels now in and awaiting the timber....

22/01/08 - Brave boys:- me, Piers and Mike...

21/01/08 - On my own this time, with use of winch and block and tackle,  all bar the ridge beam now installed...

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19/01/08 - Again with Mike’s assistance, some more steel goes up...

18/01/08 - Good old block and tackle.  This steel which is a 203x133x30 (first two numbers are depth x width in mm, the last is the weight is kg/m length) is 4.6m long and weighs .(30 x 4.6 =) 138kg.  This is near the limit for my home made block and tackle.

18/01/08 - The first of the steels go in.  This one forms the R/H side of the double garage door. The top of the RSJ (or UB) is temporarily secured with a leg of scaffold and a ratchet strap.

18/01/08 - The steels arrive

13/01/08 - The lower platform is for getting the 1st floor floor beams in and the two elevated platforms at each end are to get the ridge beam in.  Using the steel allows a vet thin but very strong 1st floor floor (5”). So we can store lots of stuff up there!

11/01/08 - Garage scaffolding up (Thanks Mike).  This will allow us to get the steel in without a crane.

10/01/08 - The blue line indicates where the garage ridge will be...

07/01/08 - Garage timber frame nearly done.  Steel work about to be ordered...

24/12/07- Garage timber frame starts going up using the old 4x2’s (treated) salvaged from the demolished house...

22/12/07- Garage side wall top and bottom wall plate being notched for the studs...

16/12/07- Garage starter walls poured, ready for the timber frame...

14/12/07- Mike & me pouring the garage starter walls...

13/12/07- The garage walls ready for concrete filling.

26/11/07- The garage walls start going up

15/10/07- Good old Ebay...

20/09/07- Garage slab poured - thanks to Piers, Mike, Ben and Patrick.

04/09/07- The garage slab with all insulation and top DPM  installed.  Ready for reinforcing mesh etc..

04/09/07- The garage slab with all the bottom DPM and all the insulation.

04/09/07- The garage slab with half the bottom DPM and insulation (Quadlock offcuts)

02/09/07- The garage slab shuttering done - just abit more compacting and it’ll be ready for the DPM & sub-slab insulation.

26/08/07- The garage slab shuttering prodresses...

18/06/07- Gone...

15/06/07- Going....

10/06/07- Going....

10/06/07- The garage dismantling commences - with a nice clean floor.

05/06/07- The old garage prior to dismantling.

07/08/07- Ramp and parking area hard-cored....

07/08/07- The crusher...

06/08/07- Lots of crushed concrete......

06/08/07- The new garage site, excavated and leveled...

28/07/07- Digging continues (thanks for your help today, Mike!)...

27/07/07- Digging - The movie...

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27/07/07- Garage and ramp at finished level... other side to do tomorrow...

27/07/07- Digging and dumping...

26/07/07- Drive broken up ... digging out tomorrow...

26/07/07- 3 Tonne digger with ‘magic prick’ attachment (hydraulic breaker)...

26/07/07-  Thanks to Piers (there he is) and his ‘Magic Prick’, the old garage slab is broken up and awaits crushing for hardcore...

29/08/08 -  Wall footings rebared and ready for concrete.  Looking North.  This will have a brick and concrete block retianing wall on it.  Further up it changes to brick and brick, non-retaining...