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concrete base for garage?

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Hi there I need to lay a concrete base for a garage 5.42m long by 3.26m wide how deep should i go for foundation? Any advice much appriciated!!

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  • You need a minimum of 6 inches you will also need to lay a plastic membrane under your concrete to stop the water being pulled into the ground hence to stop it drying out to quick and cracking hope this helps:j :T
  • There is a good picture of how the shuttering should be assembled here-

    http://www.ultimatehandyman.co.uk/forum1/viewtopic.php?t=1258

    You have to scroll a fair way down the page, but then it is clearly visible!
  • WOW! Thats how to build a garage, my garage consists of the same panels, I only hope it turns out as good as the one shown on ultimate handyman site, next thing will be how to construct a roof!
    Just wondering do I have to dig down 6 inches or can I construct a frame to put concrete into? Like in the handyman link?
  • ormus
    ormus Posts: 42,714 Forumite
    the last garage shown was the same as my previous garage. bought SH for 200 quid. easy to erect.

    btw. theres a company near me that advertises a concrete sectional garage, erected (on your own base), for 999 quid. think thats pretty good?
    Get some gorm.
  • You may be better off digging down 6 inches, if you don't you will need to make a ramp up to the garage.

    It also depends on how firm the ground is!
  • I bought the garage for £50 SH it wasn't assembled but its a big size! BARGAIN!!!! I guess its gonna have to be digging down 6 inches as the ground is pretty soft.

    Weekend warrior was the garage on the link you sent yours??
  • boom123 wrote:
    I bought the garage for £50 SH it wasn't assembled but its a big size! BARGAIN!!!! I guess its gonna have to be digging down 6 inches as the ground is pretty soft.

    Weekend warrior was the garage on the link you sent yours??

    No, it was someone called millemg on the UHM forum, I remembered seeing it and I was impressed by it and when you said you were doing one I thought you might like to see it.

    I did a concrete base about 7 years ago, I dug down about a foot and used blockboard for the shuttering and some 3*2 timber. The bsae that I did was about 11 feet by 18 feet. The one in the picture is a monster!

    I love seeing before and after pics like that :D
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