Well as a few of you will know I used to run my business out of my purpose built garage next to my home, as things picked up and got busier so did the amount of cars I had around me and I decided to go all big and professional, that was about six years ago now, this meant the garage was now redundant other than to use as storage.

I have since rented out the house and just kept the garage for storage of my ever growing collection of toys.

I have since moved into a lovely bungalow (had all the jokes btw), bought it because it had plenty of land and was also in a lovely area and a quiet cul de sac, we are the youngest in the street by 40 years, you can imagine, perfect hedges and gardens all round, every Sunday everyone is out cleaning there cars etc, then there is me, cars everywhere and as of these week diggers vans and skips

The existing garage is a double unit and to be fair is fine to park cars but other than that its all, when two cars are parked in there you would struggle to fit a rizla paper between the two.


How the house looked as we bought it-








Here's the before-




We both sat down and planned what we wanted, me obviously a nice new and much improved garage and her a kitchen (ha ha) we had all the plans drawn up and sat tight, eight weeks later we got the thumbs up, we rang around for quotes to be astounded at the costs of some of them and finally choose our builders.

What I started with-



Monday I came home from work to this-





Have to say I was very impressed on how clean they work. I have never even met my next door neighbour and when I came home she was flirting with the builders, she is in her 90s as well


Off I went to work the next morning after having a quick chat with the builders, it was nice to day dream all day and see what I would be looking at when I got home and how much progress could be made.

Day 2-

I came home to be greeted with this, although not a lot seemed to have been done the back wall had to be dug out 2 metres for the footings as the inspector had found traces of hedge roots, been told they are the worst with them sucking up all the water in the soil

Deep hole-



All the trees and plants (well mainly weeds) had been dug up, the fence came down along with the concrete posts-




All the exterior walls had been marked out and cut with a massive kind of saw, a compressor had been brought in to jack hammer the concrete (old garage floor base)



Another couple of angles



A view from the street.




To be continued.......


Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

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Just need to find something decent to put in it

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Team 'unintentional rat look'

205 is tucked up in my rented house garage.




Cheeky.


Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

Just jealous mate

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Team 'unintentional rat look'

Carl whats that rover doing parked on your drive?

Carl the old man lives in a bungalow. SLIPPERS please.

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Black X Reg PIII.VGTi 6 A4212 pt 1 A4212 pt 2 Searching the streets of Bristol for 1.36p/day.

Joint Kent Leader

Do i see the mrs in 2 of the pics carl??

Be carefull as j$oulman is lurking and will see those

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***Breaking*** Ph3 Silver GTI 6 High Boost

I'd love a bungalow,no running upstairs for a s**t then!

owain, you need on on suite bathroom

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In my garage just now

2003 BMW M3 & 2009 L200 Raging Bull
& Audi Q5 S Line
AX stock rod & Saxo Stock rod
Sold the bike an charged rallye an bought a caravan, midlife crisis or what!

Boredom its a killer


Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

I must be paying you too much for all the work on my car, for you to afford all this!

Good work, should be good when it's all finished.

Ha ha, can you imagine, it's called having a rich girlfriend and bribing her,come on I need a nice garage so I can earn some money etc etc ( if only, two incomes into a household make it easier)

A bit more for you all.

When I get home after day 3-

All the footings are dug now and the old concrete garage base was jack hammered, four skip fulls of mud later.



Notice the yellow and black pipes, well these are the gas and electric mains , it looks like we will have to get these moved at a later date which will be a hold up no doubt.




Nice and deep, possibly dive in there now with all the water??

Well the last wall which is where the main garage door will be, I have done it like this so that when cars are parked on the drive it won't stop me getting in and out the garage.





This is where they finished for day 3 and left the digger as you see it, can only assume that's so the local scum can't steal it.



Day 4

Well this was the day the council came out to inspect the depth of the footing and made sure everything done was done to the specs of the plans, he turned up at two and at three the cement truck arrived to pour the footing, which meant the builders had obviously done a good enough job.

Filled with the hard stuff, good knows how much is in her but the truck arrived full and left empty



This will eventually be the entrance



And the final picture, this is how it stands, got to leave it three days to fully cure-



To be continued........


Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo

I still want to come over mate, it's just time at the minuteI never got to go last year due to one thing or the other.

Seems theres not enough hours in the day.

Carl

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C.G.Cars of Leicester, Peugeot/Citroen/Renault specialist Tel: 01162 624498/07799 405184 WWW.CGCARSLEICESTER.CO.UK
36 narborough road south, Leicester LE3 2fn

MOT station now open, tests £35 with a free retest.
Recovery available with a recovery unit, for those not so local jobs

Also offer the loan of a free courtesy car 306 dturbo