You can polish a turd!

[The Transplanter]

No car content as such, but just sharing my budget (ish) garage project at home

 

Firstly, I purchased this large concrete garage from someone I know. It started life at the Supermarine factory in Southampton (home of the Spitfire), the old boy I bought it off bought it when they were tearing the factory down years ago.

 

It looks crap but I have plans, its approx 28ft x 13ft

 

 

 

So Just after moving in to my new property I put a new fence up and cleared all the fir trees & general crap to make space

 

 

Then me an the missus (shes a good girl but dont go telling her  ) mixed up and laid down the concrete base

 

The dogs approves    

 

 

 

 

Time for an erection    

 

 

 

 

 

New doors & windows

 

Woo... look at the lead light window in that oak door    

 

 

Left a space behind the garage (bit more on that later)

 

 

 

Now the turd polishing starts    

 

Spent a grand on loglap wood, and a furtune on 75mm celotex

 

 

 

Getting there

 

 

Next its the the interior!

 

More on that soon if anyone is interested    

 

[Vista]

Looks great

[dalmarshall]

Great build looks very nice

[ianb10]

Wow that is some man cave you have built yourself there. Wish I had some thing that big so I could work on my car any time then. Would like to see what you have in store for the inside.

[The Transplanter]

Cheers fella's 

 

A few more pics uploaded:

 

Remember the space at the rear?

 

 

Open sesame

 

 

Reveals the 3ft space I created from the loglap

 

 

Perfect for storage

 

 

Lined it out with MDF I had laying around and filled the the 4" gap with cavity insulation which I got for FREE 

 

[Mk2Jo]

Oh my God .... that's bloody brilliant! !!

[Mrs O/H/C]

Fantastic job !!!

[mk2 mike]

Wanna come round and do mine?

[mk2 ben]

Awesome place

[katana]

And there's me thinking you were going to put a nice compressor and receiver in the 'outhouse' LOL. I know the cladding is largely cosmetic but i'd add some 2" uPVC angle trim up the corners to conceal the exposed timber edge grain - bed it on some mastic and it'll last as long as the remainder does.......expert tip! Nice bit of recycling - well done.

[John escort mk1V6]

Its looking cosy

[The Transplanter]

And there's me thinking you were going to put a nice compressor and receiver in the 'outhouse' LOL. I know the cladding is largely cosmetic but i'd add some 2" uPVC angle trim up the corners to conceal the exposed timber edge grain - bed it on some mastic and it'll last as long as the remainder does.......expert tip! Nice bit of recycling - well done.

 

The plan was to have the compressor in the end, but changed my mind, its now going in my shed out of the way.

 

Thanks for the tip about the corners. I have already sorted those just as you said but with more tanalised timber so its more in keeping 

[The Transplanter]

Just recently I gave up my full time workshop so I could work from home, saving me the costs & the 50 mile round trip every day, so I thought I had better get it finished of so I could actually use it! So over xmas I started on the interior whilst everyone else was stuffing their faces with turkey and watching re-runs of only fools & horses 

 

Some of the stuff just dumped inside from my workshop, including an old Ford 

 

 

 

I couldnt live with the concrete walls on show like that, plus I knew at some point I would end up damaging myself on the joining bolts   So I decided to plasterboard it!

 

I used battening to get them straight and then used dot & dab to hold them up

 

 

 

Plastering is all done, time for a whitewash, skirting & architrave 

 

 

I started to paint the floor previously, but the paint was crap, so I have now started to paint it with epoxy floor paint.

 

This is as far as I have got, will be tomorrow before I can shift everything over so I can paint the front of the workshop  Its starting to look like an office!

 

[SmokeEm]

Whereabouts are you now then as you were in Farnham weren't you?

[grantandlianne]

very impressive

[The Transplanter]

Whereabouts are you now then as you were in Farnham weren't you?

Still in Farnham mate

[luckyjim]

lovely job,that. I particularly like the oak bits.very posh! its like the tardis,loads bigger inside than it looks from the outside.

[The Transplanter]

its like the tardis,loads bigger inside than it looks from the outside.

Not once I fill it with crap 

[SmokeEm]

Still in Farnham mate

And you didn't buy your building materials from me! Oh the cheek.

[The Transplanter]

And you didn't buy your building materials from me! Oh the cheek.

Where do you work? Would be handy to know for future discounts lol 

[SmokeEm]

Jewson on the trading estate behind Sainsbury's. I don't work in sales but can deffo help you out pricewise if needed. Just pm me. (I buy for whole South East Region)

[The Transplanter]

Jewson on the trading estate behind Sainsbury's. I don't work in sales but can deffo help you out pricewise if needed. Just pm me. (I buy for whole South East Region)

 

Good to know, I went in there the other week for looking something (cant remember what now) on my way to challenge fencing

[SmokeEm]

I would've been there no doubt. Although I don't work for the branch specifically, being in earshot of everything is vital for me. I get to hear all about changing trends, local deals etc etc. I managed to secure a deal on Monday for 56 artic loads of Timber, directly from Sweden forests. Bargain too...

[accord83]

Excellent man bolt hole, a good sound system and a kettle required. Challenge Fencing, is that sort of posh sport?

[The Transplanter]

Excellent man bolt hole, a good sound system and a kettle required. Challenge Fencing, is that sort of posh sport?

I have a Technics stacker system in waiting, another freebie a mate gave me when he up sticks & moved to somewhere called Wales!

 

I dont do nuffin posh, apart from door furniture