More Building Work

The building work on Hay's dad's garage, which was part paid by us, due to the ride-on mower, the rotovator and my e-bikes being kept there (on the right hand side), has finished. As previously reported, the old flat roof leaked like a sieve and so we decided to put a normal roof on it and bring it into keeping with our house from an aesthetic view.

Below is the photo from a couple of weeks ago when the roof trusses were heaved into place.

And here is the finished article.

Clad in oak, it matches the house, or will do when the summer sun has worked its magic and turned it silver grey.

Colin will be starting work on our garage in March (which will incorporate a potential kitchen for the AirBnB and a workshop for myself), but will be doing it in phases. The 1st phase will be the base, enabling us to save up for phases 2 and 3. 

Phase 2 will be the oak clad, brick and block extension to the AirBnB (comprising my workshop the and AirBnB kitchen - although we're not fully decided on the latter) and phase 3 will be the garage itself, which will be built of oak-clad 2 x 4 timber on a low brick wall, with a few, large pine verticals to support the roof. However phase 2 can't be completed till the roof of phase 3 is completed, as the roof of the garage will have to cut into the roof of the house extension at 90 degrees. Phase 2, however, can be made weatherproof while waiting for phase 3 to finish.

Despite the garage section being timber, we're nonetheless having full footings all round, so as to give us (or any owner in the future) the opportunity to remove the timber construction and replace it with blockwork without having to dig new footings.