SirSydom
2016-03-11 14:00:31
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When concluding our construction contract, we initially removed the garage because it was too expensive. (40,000€) It is included in the building permit (7x8m).
Now that the major risks are gone and the buffer is largely untouched, we are reconsidering the garage.
The fact is, since we don’t have a basement, we need a place – even when we move in – for bicycles, grill, garden furniture, lawnmower, winter tires, etc.
And even if our two children’s rooms and the bathroom are unused, I would prefer not to carry the dirty stuff up to the upper floor.
Although a lawnmower in the shower does have a certain decorative quality :wave
Anyway, I absolutely cannot decide HOW my garage should be built.
With a slab or with paving?
Slab smoothed with hard material scattering or with screed?
Solid masonry or possibly timber frame with fiber cement and plastered.
Massive concrete ceiling with flat roof, wooden beam ceiling with flat roof, or maybe a simple trapezoidal sheet/sandwich roof?
The garage is primarily intended for 2 cars and for bicycles and garden tools.
It should also be used to vacuum the car in winter or rain or perform repairs on cars, bicycles, etc. The directly adjacent workshop in the house is too small for big projects like furniture making – for that, you can leave the cars in the driveway for 2 weeks and realize your own ideas.
Tendencies:
- Strip foundations, shuttered at +0.30m. Slab with hard material scattering, trowel-smoothed and with slope (toward the gate)
Reason: for use as a workshop / work hall, paving is suboptimal IMO. A smooth floor is easier to clean and water/snow slush can be removed with a rubber squeegee.
To prevent rising damp in the walls, raise the strip foundations.
- On top, a timber frame construction with fiber cement panels outside and plastered, raw inside (can be clad, shelves built, etc. later)
Reason: cheaper (?) than plastered masonry on both sides, slimmer wall construction provides more space
- The roof just needs to keep out the rain.
I thought of trapezoidal sheet sandwich panels (against condensation inside).
But it must fit the house extension (1-story, flat roof with parapet).
Or wooden beams, board decking, bitumen membrane, and parapet with flashing?
What do you think??
Now that the major risks are gone and the buffer is largely untouched, we are reconsidering the garage.
The fact is, since we don’t have a basement, we need a place – even when we move in – for bicycles, grill, garden furniture, lawnmower, winter tires, etc.
And even if our two children’s rooms and the bathroom are unused, I would prefer not to carry the dirty stuff up to the upper floor.
Although a lawnmower in the shower does have a certain decorative quality :wave
Anyway, I absolutely cannot decide HOW my garage should be built.
With a slab or with paving?
Slab smoothed with hard material scattering or with screed?
Solid masonry or possibly timber frame with fiber cement and plastered.
Massive concrete ceiling with flat roof, wooden beam ceiling with flat roof, or maybe a simple trapezoidal sheet/sandwich roof?
The garage is primarily intended for 2 cars and for bicycles and garden tools.
It should also be used to vacuum the car in winter or rain or perform repairs on cars, bicycles, etc. The directly adjacent workshop in the house is too small for big projects like furniture making – for that, you can leave the cars in the driveway for 2 weeks and realize your own ideas.
Tendencies:
- Strip foundations, shuttered at +0.30m. Slab with hard material scattering, trowel-smoothed and with slope (toward the gate)
Reason: for use as a workshop / work hall, paving is suboptimal IMO. A smooth floor is easier to clean and water/snow slush can be removed with a rubber squeegee.
To prevent rising damp in the walls, raise the strip foundations.
- On top, a timber frame construction with fiber cement panels outside and plastered, raw inside (can be clad, shelves built, etc. later)
Reason: cheaper (?) than plastered masonry on both sides, slimmer wall construction provides more space
- The roof just needs to keep out the rain.
I thought of trapezoidal sheet sandwich panels (against condensation inside).
But it must fit the house extension (1-story, flat roof with parapet).
Or wooden beams, board decking, bitumen membrane, and parapet with flashing?
What do you think??