If like me, you need a quick and inexpensive 'garage' for your car, this might work for you.
I had the space but no inclination to build a small seperate garage. I am more likely to build something more permanent and integral to the house in due course.
Here is my temporary 'dry space' in which the car is kept. It is exactly the size it needs to be and no bigger. It is also bone dry inside - where it matters. Total cost was £89 including delivery for the necessary 72m of 3"x2" CLS.
Here the car is hanging out of the garage.
Here the car is all the way in.
It took me about 3 hours all in and the car has been absolutely bone dry ever since. Not perfect or permanent, but if you need somewhere to keep your car at home.....


[Edited on 17/5/04 by zilspeed]

[Edited on 17/5/04 by zilspeed]

pretty good solution! You a midget then?

wait until your first windy day comes along............

atb

steve

First windy day !!!!??????

You've got to be joking !!

Up here in ScotchLand every day is a windy day. That's why it is just big enough and no more - less space for the howling gale to fill and carry it off up the street. It is fixed to the fence as well. Still - I won't say that it won't ever go for a wee fly ;-)

lol I laughed at that Northamptonshire perspective on the weather too...

Neat solution. When I first started building I had no garage to store finished article.
Just managed to get one at the last minute (aren't old people great!).

Cheers
JC

[Edited on 18/5/04 by SeaBass]

Pretty neat.

I'd like to see a picture of whatever vehicle is attached to the blue roll over bar in the middle of the first picture .
Hmm, maybe the wife is right, I am obsessed and I have started seeing these damn cars everywhere .

I think I'd have put a slope on the roof or a ridge. It'll be like an overhead paddling pool when it rains. It's heavy stuff when it gathers in market stall canvas and if that's builders DPC, which it looks like, it doesn't like being in daylight for long. I wouldn't like you to come to your car in a couple of weeks and find it brimming.

A couple of points if I may :-)

This is definitely a temporary solution.

Yes the covering is visqueen - didn't know it disliked sunlight - UV I guess - but that makes sense now you mention it.

It is sitting on a slope and drains to the front.

It has been up a month now and keeps the car dry and hasn't flown off - yet....

Now I've bought the trailer, I intend converting it into a box for taking the car to track days and events and for storing it in. That's until a permanent garage is built.

Zilspeed I've got an idea.. Don't park your nice Locost in there fill it with crap like most cunny funts. Nothing that pisses me off more than garages full of crap not being used.

Cheers

You mean like most garages in the country ;-)
The guy across the street from me has an MX5 which has never been in his garage because there's no room - go figure. As well as that, I have now done a few conversions of garages into bedrooms for people ( I was a joiner originally before I was rescued ).
It's enough to make you cry....

Winds are nothing.

The day after I started to extend my garage we had an earthquake! - the one of a couple years ago.

atb

steve

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Originally posted by SeaBass
lol I laughed at that Northamptonshire perspective on the weather too...

Neat solution. When I first started building I had no garage to store finished article.
Just managed to get one at the last minute (aren't old people great!).

Cheers
JC

[Edited on 18/5/04 by SeaBass]

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That the one with epicentre in Derby! lol??

Cheers

somewhere near there. it was VERY noticable in Northants. About 8 secs or rumbling and the house gave a little jolt at the end. I had just put a doorway and lintel in the garage and my first thought was the garage had fallen down!

atb

steve