Garages

Sure you could probably get a inline / plug-in meter that'd give an exact figure, then you pay per kw/h. Just don't remind them of the standing charge.

Is/was all that soil on the roof a roof garden at some stage ?

Is/was all that soil on the roof a roof garden at some stage ?

No, that's (quite a lot of) soil that has been created by the environment on the roof from, I suspect, leaves that have mulched down.

i'm sure you've already considered it, but is there no way of getting power across from your flat?
high level cable to a pole, or digging a trench or moleing it and putting a cable in?

I am trying, but the managing agent is a significantly more intractable obstacle than the simply physical task of getting the cable across.

Glad to have found this thread. What's the ultimate aim for the workshop side? Understand the naivety of this question considering how the porsche panned out. Best of luck with the levels beurocracy involved too.

Well, depending on power:

Solar only:

• Low voltage LED lighting, battery charging for powertools
  
• Larger/plug in tools hauled out to the area in front of the garage to be plugged into an extension cord thrown from the flat (which means they need to be mobile, like my chop saw)
  
  

Mains electricity:

• As funds allow, I'd like a small lathe, mill and welder
  
• Lighting etc
  
• Other tools given a semi-permanent installation inside the garage as extraction could be used
  
• Basically, anything and everything that I can fit in there
  
  

And in both cases, as much neat storage as I can fit in.

I'd like to put a mezzanine floor in garage 2 that I park the nose of the car underneath that would have bikes and bulky items (drivers seat from the Porsche, second row of seats from the camper for example).

Praying for mains

Looking forward to seeing this progress.

Is there a specific milling machine you're looking at? I usually think of them as being quite big, so isn't there a risk of it crowding out the space with the other things in it?

Lathe is always a dream.

mezzanine

Is this estate agent for shelf?

Big shelf, the biggest, a bigly shelf.

Praying for mains

Obviously that's the best outcome, but in a way the solar might be more interesting.

Especially when someone pinches my panels.

Getting there, annoyingly the roots have gone through the roof felt in places though.

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Very satisfying, good work

Excellent procurement!

Will you knock a hole in the wall to go between the two?

I’m waiting for a Mr The Bald, of this parish, to come and have a look at my brickwork (not a euph), and will ask him to install a suitable lintel for a communicating door between the two garages. As long as he has the time and doesn’t quote a billion pounds, of course.

Thanks for this - excellent film, I really enjoyed it

Getting there. I’m not sure what to do about the felt where the roots have gone into it.

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RE: roots, give the whole roof a spray down with a herbacide

Neighbour has said that they're happy to provide me with power- this is good news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dJolYw8tnk

Awesome, that's going to make things a lot easier hopefully.