Side walls on a garage in an enclosed space...

[PHOEN1XV8]

Hi All,

I intend to build a garage/workshop at a house I am in the process of completing on.

Because of the lack of distance to the boundaries, the size of the garage I'd like to build, and the height I'd like to go, I already know that I'll have to go through the planning permission application route, but I just wanted to run some ideas buy those who will have had more experience regarding my approach to the actual build...

Here's the space I have to work with...

Not immediately obvious in the first photo is the step down from the current level of the driveway to the garden.

The goal is build a retaining wall a little further back from the current end of the driveway so that I can build a sizeable garage and still have space in front of it to park two cars side by side. With the retaining wall in place, a conrete pour to level the ground off after removing some of the paving bricks, would give a much flatter surface to frame up the garage. A soakway into the garden is also being considered to manage rain water.

Because access will be nigh on impossible once the side walls are up, the plan is as follows;

Timber frame the side walls one at a time laying flat on the ground. 4 x 2" timber with fire resistant board, staple on the moisture membrane, batten, then composite cladding to avoid any worries with rot and to satisfy the requirements of not building on a boundary with non fire-resistant material. As access to the front and rear walls will be far easier, I'm not worried about those.

I realise that with the walls built up on the ground, lifting them into place is going to be one hell of a job and I'll most likely rent a telehandler or the like if needed but I'd like a sanity check. The composite cladding itself works out at around £15 a length which is a lot of money to be throwing at something that wont be seen, though the peace of mind aspect is the reason I'm considering cladding the walls in the first place


Is there a better way to approach this? Part of the appeal of the property was the space to build a workshop/ garage as I have a number of projects that I wan't to keep out of the weather.

Any advice or knowledge you can impart would be greatly appreciate

Chris

 

[noseall]

Hi All,

I intend to build a garage/workshop at a house I am in the process of completing on.

Because of the lack of distance to the boundaries, the size of the garage I'd like to build, and the height I'd like to go, I already know that I'll have to go through the planning permission application route, but I just wanted to run some ideas buy those who will have had more experience regarding my approach to the actual build...

Here's the space I have to work with...
View attachment 411409View attachment 411410Not immediately obvious in the first photo is the step down from the current level of the driveway to the garden.

The goal is build a retaining wall a little further back from the current end of the driveway so that I can build a sizeable garage and still have space in front of it to park two cars side by side. With the retaining wall in place, a conrete pour to level the ground off after removing some of the paving bricks, would give a much flatter surface to frame up the garage. A soakway into the garden is also being considered to manage rain water.

Because access will be nigh on impossible once the side walls are up, the plan is as follows;

Timber frame the side walls one at a time laying flat on the ground. 4 x 2" timber with fire resistant board, staple on the moisture membrane, batten, then composite cladding to avoid any worries with rot and to satisfy the requirements of not building on a boundary with non fire-resistant material. As access to the front and rear walls will be far easier, I'm not worried about those.

I realise that with the walls built up on the ground, lifting them into place is going to be one hell of a job and I'll most likely rent a telehandler or the like if needed but I'd like a sanity check. The composite cladding itself works out at around £15 a length which is a lot of money to be throwing at something that wont be seen, though the peace of mind aspect is the reason I'm considering cladding the walls in the first place


Is there a better way to approach this? Part of the appeal of the property was the space to build a workshop/ garage as I have a number of projects that I wan't to keep out of the weather.

Any advice or knowledge you can impart would be greatly appreciate

Chris

We used Cedral cladding on our garden shed. However, you won't be able to build it modular and successfully wrap it and clad in modular form.

shed.jpg

• noseall
• 4 Dec 2022

 

[Tigercubrider]

Could you build the frames flat, use wrap, but then raise them to near vertical using a support frame, close to the boundary, then clad? Then move to your boundary. Repeat for the other side using the same support system, dismantle the supports.
Or build the back wall first, using that to support your sides while building them?

Is it a lot cheaper than paying for a brickie to build two concrete block walls for the sides?

 

[PHOEN1XV8]

I have also considered block walling the two side walls, guess I'll have to investigate what the going rate is these days!