garage

Hi We are looking for a new garage door and would like it for o be a rolller door which can be operated via remote. We have received some quotes for different branded doors, but not sure which is the best quality, if we could please ask for some advice from anyone with experience. These are the...

Hi all, I have a detached garage built with single skin breeze/concrete blocks. The driveway slopes down so the garage below the adjacent roadway. When it rains, water seeps through the bricks below the DPM (which is about 700mm from the garage floor). There is a lot of water and results in a...

Hi all, I'm looking at options to raise the height in part of the garage to fit a golf simulator. I plan to rip out that makeshift room at the back and thought possibly that back area would be best so the front area could remain usable as a garage, open to ideas though. Currently there are 3...

Hi folks. I'm planning to paint the floor (after rescreeding) and the breeze block walls on the inside of my garage. I'll paint the breeze block with a normal interior white emulsion, probably watered down to seal. At the bottom of the interior of the external walls there are two rows of brick...

My partner and I moved into our property exactly a year ago. Throughout the autumn/winter we noticed a lot of damp in the back half of our garage (it’s a tandem so quite long) on the wall that sides with our neighbours garden. Now the summer has come it has dried out significantly but you can...

How easy would it be to add a single socket for our treadmill? I think the previous home owner has added a double socket, so I'm not sure, would it be possible to run a cable And attach a single socket?

Hi everyone I’m not at all new to DIY but quite new to a lot of stuff I’d like to do to my garage to make it useable for a few hours a day in winter and generally just a more pleasant place to spend time. Kind of want to make it a nice clean space. I know there are loads (AND LOADS) of similar...

I am considering how best to line some unused garage space which I currently use as a gym (and bike workshop). My house originally had an integral garage. Previous owners adapted this for use initially as an office space by lining the walls with plasterboard (using 1 inch battens and no...

Hi all, I'm planning to run a cable from the house to the garage to power a few sockets and a few lights. The load cable will be a 2.5mm 3 core H07RN-F which will go into a junction box in the garage and from there will continue to the sockets. For the sockets I used a 1.9mm?(thats what the...

Hi all, I am after some advice with regards to damp in my single skin detached garage. I have had a damp survey done and it confirmed that I have damp bridging into the existing concrete slab floor from the engineering bricks below the DPC. Apparently fairly common in garages. No visible signs...

How To Build A Brick Wall This is the garage Brickwall I built I am wondering if anyone has any advise for finishing it I’ve included a video but I am trying to fire proof the garage by bricking the side of the garage that has it covered and also fire board the underneath and side of the...

i have a an integrated garage, at the front of the house next to the garage is a meter long open porch. ( inset into the house). the 1m section of wall between the porch area and the garage is single skin brick. it then changes to single skin blockwork. on the inside of the house there is about...

Hello all! We bought our house with the garage already converted many years prior to our purchase in 2018. The garage was originally a double garage, half of the garage was converted to a room in 2003. Room is 5.46m by 2.55m The partition wall looks like breeze block, out side normal red...

Hi After some advice on replacing my wooden frame, Perspex window in my concrete prefab garage with a UPVC unit. I plan to remove the entire window and its timber frame so all I am left with is the concrete panel edges. The end game for this garage is to get as close to this conversion as...

Occasional DIY bodger here, haven't done external work before. The problem is damp on the floor in the garage which was built as a recent extension before I bought the house. There's a drainage channel on the outside of the wall that isn't rendered and I think the water's coming in there...

so im currently at the planning stage of a diy garage conversion, ive decided to install a suspended floor in order to raise the floor in line with the rest of the house, however there is a very awkwardly placed soil pipe that comes through the the roof of the garage and through the concrete...

Hello all, Our garage got flooded in recent “monsoon like weather”. Everything wet has been disposed of and the garage ckearred to dry. It looks like the flood water was above the damp proof course ( see pic). Construction is brick then breeze block. The house has cavity wall filling pellets)...

Hi all, I'm building a single skin brick garage. The garage is 6.1m long and 3.1m wide. I need some advice on getting the roof started. I'm planning to put the joists accross the shorter span and have the fall going towards the back of the garage. I will be using 47mm x 175mm C24 timber for...

Why do new build developers build garage walls right on the property boundary line so that the gutter and drain pipes over hang onto the neighbours property? Assume they’re all compliant with building regs but does it not cause issues if any maintenance needs doing to the wall, gutter or drains...

Trying to figure out the best way to hang a heavy bag off my garage trusses. Any ideas? Apologies if this is the incorrect place, new here.