Underground garage build

[BarryPort]

I suppose a house for your car would fall under car care..
Anyway, been building my house for the past year & now that its 95% complete its time to turn my attention to the most important bit. The garage.

Updates over the next 4 weeks. Heres last week's work, the excavation.

Looking West:

Looking East:

Driveway being profiled down to it:

Spec wise it'l be a 4 bay part-underground garage with a turf/grass flat roof, so only the front face & part of the sides should be exposed. Roughly 42ft x 20ft & only 7ft high so no room for a lift unfortunately.

Excuse the size of the pics, I've obviously been sent them from an iPhone without resizing.

I'm intending to utilise one of the 4 bays (10Ft x 20Ft) as a part gym/games chill out area but that will be revealed if it actually becomes reality. Founds going in today, but il update that splash of concrete later.

 

[BarryPort]

Marking out

Stone laid & founds in. A bit of a miscalculation of the amount of spoil & how submerged into the hill this thing is going to be, so with the extra space needed to profile the driveway down into it, ive now (unintentionally) got a back yard.

 

[StevenMc29]

This looks like it's going to be epic! House looks awesome too

 

[Nicky]

Why not go deeper to allow for more head height? I know that the biggest regret when building our garage was only making it 8ft high and its surprisingly restrictive in terms of what the garage can be used for.

Nice concept, but could be a much better set-up with more room.

 

[chris_b]

Barry it has been my life ling ambition to be in a position to build an underground garage, i'll get there eventually. Cant express my interest enough in this build so please keep us posted.
Very well done

 

[BarryPort]

Why not go deeper to allow for more head height? I know that the biggest regret when building our garage was only making it 8ft high and its surprisingly restrictive in terms of what the garage can be used for.

Nice concept, but could be a much better set-up with more room.

Any deeper & water would collect in it. I dont mind low ceilings Nicky, apart from missing over head storage it will make more sense regarding heating & insulation values.

 

[BarryPort]

Barry it has been my life ling ambition to be in a position to build an underground garage, i'll get there eventually. Cant express my interest enough in this build so please keep us posted.
Very well done

Cheers Chris, well it's been my life long ambition to eventually own a nice car lol. It's been my driving force throughout the build.

 

[Nicky]

Any deeper & water would collect in it. I dont mind low ceilings Nicky, apart from missing over head storage it will make more sense regarding heating & insulation values.

Hard to make out the pics on the phone. It looked like you we're high on a hill, so I imagined the water table wouldn't have been an issue.

Could you not bring it out if the ground and make the roof of it a nice decking/patio/barbecue area/play area for the kids/herb garden (if you're into that kinda thing )?

That said, if its all you'll ever need, then fair play. The heating side of things definitely makes sense, and at 800sq/ft you should have plenty of work space.

 

[Big Pimp]

Good man Barry - good money under the water in the cold North Sea I take it?!

 

[BarryPort]

I know exactly what your saying Nicky but its in a green belt area of outstanding natural beauty so planning would give my knuckles fair wrap if I made any more of an environmental impact than what I was permitted to. It's all the space il need.

Good man Barry - good money under the water in the cold North Sea I take it?!

Funny I'm just after ordering a new thermal long-johns - it's pretty nippy this time of year lol

 

[Gabriel90]

Sure, just steal my dreams and put it into practice before my 22nd birthday, why don't ya!
Lol

 

[big_pete]

awesome, will be watching this thread with great interest

I will be doing some major work to my workshop over winter must start a thread on it

 

[Boydie]

Looks excellent!! Looking forward to updates - garage party? lol

 

[C4L]

That is absolutely fantastic mate! I'm 22 and something like this just has to be one of your goals if your a car nut, best of luck getting it sorted, will watch with interest!

 

[Dan.86]

liking this. cant wait to see the end result.

 

[Taz007]

this should look pretty cool when its done. Nice house also.

 

[Eager]

Now I see why the gtr we chatted about came as wrong time lol, some job mate. I am sure once your sorted a toy will fit in very well,

 

[BarryPort]

Now I see why the gtr we chatted about came as wrong time lol, some job mate. I am sure once your sorted a toy will fit in very well,

Lol! Yeah this project has sucked the fun out of my driving life for the past 4 years. Only a couple of months to go now though

 

[Neil@rockvale]

Exciting times Barry . Great project and lovely house . Weve only recently finished our build too . keep the pics coming , very interesting thread.

 

[Aidan316i]

Room for a certain M5? lol

 

[Ema]

Love this idea and love that house!!

 

[BarryPort]

Room for a certain M5? lol

No! Lol.. I've had my time with practical classics.

 

[Aidan316i]

No! Lol.. I've had my time with practical classics.

F*ck it, buy me it and i'll keep it then lol

 

[BarryPort]

F*ck it, buy me it and i'll keep it then lol

Sure I already bought you a 535i Sport & you havnt even looked at it! It's up for sale with a years MOT when I get home 'unwanted gift'

 

[IL]

Looks great Barry, very impressive! Is this the site near downhill you where telling me about? looks fantastic! are you intending to work offshore for much longer? its a pity the house will spend half its life empty!