Ideas please for my Motorhome garage.

[CazPaul]

I’ve been doing a bit of work gradually, a bit at a time, I had a few hundred reclaimed bricks left over from the extension. All done in hot lime mortar which takes weeks to dry, in fact months to cure fully.
I built a cavity in and used wall tiles, still not painted the floor yet.

I’ve done an area for a woodburner but don’t know whether to fit one or not. I don’t want to go through the roof so it would have to be the wall.

Motorhome will be back in tomorrow after our Scottish trip.

 

[cyberyacht]

All those bricks must overload your rear axle.

 

[CazPaul]

All those bricks must overload your rear axle.

No, the rear had over 900kg payload when it went on the weigh bridge

 

[Lenny HB]

A bit more work with the bricks & you will be able to get rid of those timber walls.

 

[CazPaul]

I’ve added some more storage, shelves.

Then made use of the space overhead at the front with a huge storage section.

I had some reclaimed bricks and lime mortar left so I put some finishing touches to the top edge of the wall.

Still not decided whether to fit a woodburner, the area and hearth is ready though.

The vice is the best thing I’ve fitted what a great bit of kit never had one before.

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[CazPaul]

Hardcore here today and concrete floor Monday.

I am a traditionalist when it comes to building and love all types of old buildings and the way they are constructed. Our house is 1891 with no foundations as such and built with lime mortar,

I did consider getting the foundations dug out and a rubble/gravel lime mortar infill foundation but I’m not well enough after my injury to do any work myself.

Building partially underground no dpc using cement/ concrete is asking for problems. I have thought about lots of options, just having a parking area with no timber garage on top.

I need to look at drainage too. I have thought about tanking also.

I am considering the idea of building an inner wall of reclaimed brick using just lime mortar, this wall will get wet from the concrete/cement wall behind but the damp should “wick away” with ventilation and dry out, just as it’s designed to do.

Need to make sure if I go with my plan there is enough room to get the van in, problem is the total width allowed was 3.6 metres but for strength the builder has laid the blocks on their sides, so much thicker and stronger, so lost some width there, although once through the entrance the garage will widen out when the timber bit starts.

Decisions decisions.

Well I did build an internal wall in some areas with hot lime mortar( Not the NHL lime mortar) and reclaimed brick I had left, no issues so far with water coming in. Any moisture that does come through should wick away

Drain along the back and sides covered in gravel and then the trenches I filled with Geocell glass foam which is great stuff.

Built a brick hearth and fireplace area but don’t think I’m putting a woodburner in, nice feature though.

Overall I’m really pleased how it’s turned out.

Motorhome is sat nice and dry and warm despite freezing minus temperatures outside.

Thanks to everyone who advised.

 

[CazPaul]

Here, I’ve just noticed the garage is leaking, there’s snow falling through somewhere I never noticed it at first but can clearly see it in the photos.

 

[busbuddy]

Bricklaying is something I wish I had learnt, I've done small bits to a passable standard (blind man on galloping horse) but nothing of any real use

 

[CazPaul]

Bricklaying is something I wish I had learnt, I've done small bits to a passable standard (blind man on galloping horse) but nothing of any real use

Same here, mine not the best but I enjoy it, it’s very therapeutic.

 

[Brocksford]

Any other ideas anyone?

Cut those trees down and put a fence up.

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[solaris]

CazPaul . You’re worried about snow leaking into your garage! It’s also leaking into my iPad. That Jim’s got a lot to answer for. Unfortunately looking out of window weather is in that grey miserable state when it can’t decide whether to rain or snow. But the temperature has leapt up to 1 degree

 

[CazPaul]

CazPaul . You’re worried about snow leaking into your garage! It’s also leaking into my iPad. That Jim’s got a lot to answer for. Unfortunately looking out of window weather is in that grey miserable state when it can’t decide whether to rain or snow. But the temperature has leapt up to 1 degree

Yes are now it’s going to get 10 degrees warmer, rain, wind

Give me the winter cold any day, it’s much better for the health of the moor and countryside

 

[plug]

The builders have dug so much out as the drive is sloping as you can see.

Size planners have agreed to is 8.7 metres long, 3.6 metres wide, door height 3.3 metres, door width 2.9 metres, total height 4.1 metres.

Now as you can see they have really dug into the sides and especially rear, the builder reckons the plastic damp proof will stop any damp coming through the walls, which are 11 inch thick(Concrete block laid sideways on for solidness)

There is plenty of room at the back wall to get access and wonder if that tanking solution or tanking membrane would also help, before he backfills it

They have got some of the blocks down and think the wall would be better stepped now part way down I think that’s a good idea as part of the timber garage would be below ground otherwise.


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He says he is putting a field drain in as well around the back and side.

What about a drain down the centre of the floor obviously need to know before the concrete floor gets done.

Any other ideas anyone?

As your builder to put in a french drain for you that will take most of your surface water away, this construction is a strip trench along the back with a 600x600x600 pot filled with 40mm stone.
I have spent 40+ years in the building trade

 

[CazPaul]

As your builder to put in a french drain for you that will take most of your surface water away, this construction is a strip trench along the back with a 600x600x600 pot filled with 40mm stone.
I have spent 40+ years in the building trade

Yes did that it’s worked lovely so far

 

[pxh38257]

We have just built one 10.2 meters long x 2.9 meters wide, door opening 3.1 meters high.built with breeze blocks cavity wall fully insulated.
we demolished our existing single garage, utility room and moved a wooden shed to the other part of the garden. Drainage, we have a foul drain inside the garage and an ako drain to front and rear connected in to the house drainage system. One thing to be careful of is if you fit a drain cover inside the garage, we fitted a 5 ton lid but it felt very flexible. I contacted the manufactures and the 5 ton was suitable for a light car I.e Aygo not a motorhome. I then suggested a 10 ton and was told that would be ok for my Volvo but not a 3 ton motorhome, so in the end a 25 ton one was fitted.

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[CazPaul]

Got the workshop nicely kitted out, I just got this lovely old woodwork vice for £20, 1930s, really heavy quality. A old chap who was a woodworker passed away and family were selling all his stuff.
Parkinson’s, you can just feel the quality , the weight.
Goes in and out so smoothly you can tell it been used but really looked after, original paint not been messed about with, just same as it came out if the factory almost 100 years ago. Why buy cheap 2 bit Chinese made muck when you can pick up UK made quality for a fraction of the price.
It goes nicely with the vintage Paramo vice the other end of the bench. You can’t beat older stuff for quality.

I didn’t know the old chap but I always feel sad when someone dies and all his stuff gets sold off, I think I’m getting more sentimental as I get older.

 

[gus-lopez]

I’ve added some more storage, shelves.

Then made use of the space overhead at the front with a huge storage section.

I had some reclaimed bricks and lime mortar left so I put some finishing touches to the top edge of the wall.

Still not decided whether to fit a woodburner, the area and hearth is ready though.

The vice is the best thing I’ve fitted what a great bit of kit never had one before.



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My ocd would have made me infill the wood with insulation & board it over.

 

[CazPaul]

My ocd would have made me infill the wood with insulation & board it over.

Yes I thought about that I maybe should have done because it’s cold in there in the winter.

 

[dunnah01]

Any job I do ends up looking like a bomb has gone off. How do you stop the Moho getting covered in dust and grime when using the vice and bench?

 

[CazPaul]

Any job I do ends up looking like a bomb has gone off. How do you stop the Moho getting covered in dust and grime when using the vice and bench?

I try to tidy as I go along, I know what you mean though, the Motorhome bonnet front which is nearest the work area is covered continuously by 2 fleece blankets so is always clean.
I then usually just have the windscreen to give a quick wipe down

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