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just make sure that your new garage blocks out the daylight from your neighbour, and that the rain water drains into their garden

Iain

it soaks away on to her concrete drive now, so they'll be no change there  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

I have a neighbour at the back of the property with a 40ft x 15ft, pool that he has converted to a fish pond years ago, the damn thing leaks and given that he is 5ft higher than me you can guess whewe the water goes.
The lawn is a lush green colour, I can highly recommend pond water as fertiliser but the swampy conditions underfoot make it unusable. Will have to put new drains in come spring and have a quiet word in his shell like.

Why double garage Nick? is this in anticipation of expensive paint option on the next freely?

Double to go with the double driveway, need to find the access widths or new cars though and plan for those too

I use half as a normal garage (boxes storage) and half as a area for polishing the cars and parking whilst I'm away on holiday

It will also mean I gain some garden too as I would do away with the shed in the garden, side door into garden do kids bikes etc,

Though now thinking a slightly wider (old 9' to new 14') but longer garage to keep with in planning permission Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

taztastic wrote:

I have a neighbour at the back of the property with a 40ft x 15ft, pool that he has converted to a fish pond years ago, the damn thing leaks and given that he is 5ft higher than me you can guess whewe the water goes.
The lawn is a lush green colour, I can highly recommend pond water as fertiliser but the swampy conditions underfoot make it unusable. Will have to put new drains in come spring and have a quiet word in his shell like.

Why double garage Nick? is this in anticipation of expensive paint option on the next freely?

thought you could not fill large swimming pool /ponds from mains water and had to get a bowser in  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

It is leaking, last spring he dropped the level by about a foot and the garden dried up, he was supposed to fix it, with all the rain we are having it has obviously refilled and continually leaking. At the deepest it is 6 foot about 3 foot of that is above the ground height of my lawn.
Come spring something will have to be done, although I fear it will involve me shelling out for drains etc.

I would use my legal side of the house insurance and force him to do it Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

npinks wrote:

thought you could not fill large swimming pool /ponds from mains water and had to get a bowser in

Never heard of that one Nick, you're not getting confused with Toeknee having a Bowser to wash his Freely

Yorkshire water mentions it, but I think the doc I found was for dole scroungers

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automatically replenishing a pond, or a swimming pool, with a capacity greater than 10,000 litres; and the consumer has applied for assistance and established his entitlement to it in accordance with (g) below.

So my building plans are progressing, so far that i have done a photoshop (quite a dodgy one too)

I have had a quote to,
lift existing block paving and save,
Knock down Garage,
build a retaining wall, down the left hand side front to back upto 3' high, with holes to place concrete H posts, re-fence.
Fill & level to same height as current garden,
bring driveway up to same,
Lay base suitable for a 18'x20' concrete new garage,
Adjust Fence to meet front of garage, fence rear garden behind garage along boundary,
Skim off a layer of grass behind the conifers to same height as driveway,hardcore covered in gravel (caravan storage/car washing area)
2x 6' fence panels been converted to a gate by me.
Relay the existing block paving driveway

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sounds good, remember to pay a bit extra and have them weeds removed at the same time

Iain

pricewise, it think its good, as its for everything, its been priced on the topside, so if the wall doesn't need to be 3' then it gets cheaper, likewise for the backfill/top soil

Just need to decide now on whether £15k spending will be beneficial, I get a new large garage, that the driveway doesn't slope into and flood, i get a area to park my caravan, to load up before going away to save driving 5 miles to were we store it, I can see me not using this all the time either as weekends away dont need it preloading, which means it maybe only used 3 or 4 times a year to load the caravan

My father in law put the idea that it maybe better/cheaper to go improve the drainage, increase the base size for a new double garage and not go to the expense of raising the height, pathway down the side of the garage, basically what i have now with a double garage. I've coped for 7 years loading the caravan up away from home  Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis