I’ve never had very good or no garaging in any house I’ve lived in and indeed I restored my mx5 on a gravel drive so spent a long time looking for parts I’d dropped in the golden Flint gravel.
The layout of our site includes a north facing 30 ft by 60 ft salient bordered by high hedges in front of the neighbours garden. It presently has a small 1.5 wooden prefab garage I put on it when I built the house.
The council has given pre planning approval to a 20ft by 40ft workshop garage. There is no discussion of materials and it’s free choice.
The house is an oak and sandstone neoclassical cottage. A house like this might expect to have an oak frame garage but as the building will mostly not be seen and I have a lot of oak already.
I actually think an insulated steel workshop might be good but I wondered if anyone had experience of these and what alternatives anyone has found effective.
Hi Andrew
About 18 years ago i took down an old concrete garage that basically was always damp because concrete and brick single wall generally always sweat a bit,i replaced it with an amazing about 30ft x 10 ft wooden garage by Ashford Timber Ashford Road Kent Website www.nationalstables.co.uk,they tailor make it exactly how you want,including extra doors windows,i even had the roof made of 20m/mm boarding instead of 13m/m,my garage is built directly on the boundary ,they line the garage as they build it with pitch paper,but on my boundary side they lined it with a special fireprrof alumimium sandwich paper that makes it comply with building regs so no problem,only very few pounds more.
The garage i am very pleased with not ever is there the slightest hint of damp,and basically is still as good as new,we researched at least 7 different companies before choosing this garage,the quality was streets ahead of most of them,not sure where you live,but i live in Bucks if you wanted to see my garage you are welcome,i also totally lined the garage with compressed board.,