im not going so big 12.6ft(3.8m) by 20.3 (6.18m) but plenty of room for me.Have you had to get planning permission? Just sending a form off to council to see if i need planning or not but I dont think I do
As far as I know you don't need planning permission for a prefab
Gonna be soooooo easy to tinker now
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/per...d.php?t=471812
this is what I was told to look at when I last posted about permissioon and if its right I should be ok
No planning permission required provided it is lower than 2.5m (4 m if you're more than 2m from the boundary)
You can use up to 50% of your land (excluding the main house) for your total developments (ie outhouses, sheds, extensions etc)
you do need to nothing building control if it's bigger than 30sqm though
Wow that looks great. Are you doing most of it yourself? I know you're not doing it for value reasons but do you know if it will add much value to the house?
If I'm nice, can I use your pit please?
Thank you
I'm doing as much as l dare! Got a man with a digger into dig out most of it, and had an architect and engineer spec it all up. Got a guy coming in to do the shuttering and pour. But I've coordinated it all and did the last digging, the crushing and laying of the subbase and I'll put the DPM in.
Yes, of course
BCO came round today. Seemed ok with it all, so that is a relief. Next time he wants to visit is when in ready to pour the slab in the pit, so it's been hardcore-a-go-go today!
Got the layer of big stuff down, so tomorrow will compact it and then do a layer of type1, compact, and then sand. then my bit is kinda done.
Good stuff, bet the neighbours think you're mad.
Would offer to help you out but you're nearly 2.5 hours away and I've not got much muscle or free time at the moment.
Not sure if you've seen the prefab pits. May not be what you want, but have a look at http://mech-mate.co.uk/
Also do a search for 'grasscrete' for hard wearing grass/concrete surfacing. Again, may not be exactly what you want but a possible option?
Bit of an update. Will try and sort pics out tonight.
So, it's all dug out and the old garage knocked down. We had hours of "fun" () lobbing the old garage into a crusher and barrowing it over the site. We did fist sized stuff first, whackered it down and then went to the smallest setting on the crusher and put a layer of home-made type one down, and whackered again. Amazingly we had just the right amount of hardcore: no more no less.
After a lot of t!t-arsing about, we're just about ready to build the pit and shutter off the main base. Once the pit walls are built and the shuttiering is up, we can fill the voids behind the retaining walls and blind the whole base with sand and then get pouring!
168m of T12 rebar ordered today Will spend Friday with a bender
LOL!! Nick, you know how to do a project mate!! You loony!!
oh, and er, good luck with the 'bender'
Awesome work
Shall be having my garage done this year as well now - which will be "interesting" in terms of where we move everything n the meantime
OK, bit of a dicslaimer here. I've had a couple of drinks and I'm using handwriting recogniction on a touch screen. Incapable of much else, so I thought I'd add some pics.
So, here's some pics of some hardcored.
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