Garages
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Garage buildings provide much needed domestic space for any home and come in many shapes and sizes to suit your needs and plot size.
Most of our garage builds are bespoke, designed around your requirements. With added features such as workshop space, first floor accommodation, lean to log stores and potting sheds, the layout can be customised to suit you. As a guide we suggest sizes for 1 2 and 3 bay buildings but these are a guide based on past projects. |
Comparing quotes?
Please download the information sheet below. It will give you more information about the specification of our buildings. 
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Bespoke
There are many options available to suit your requirements so please get in touch if you would like some advice on 01666 822234/330182 or email info@madeinoak.com if you already have plans and would like a quote from us.
For past work please see the gallery above for inspiration.
For past work please see the gallery above for inspiration.
All buildings have the option to add partition walls, garage doors, and lean-to log stores. We also give you four different cladding options based on larch or oak in either waney or feather edged profiles. We assume our oak frames will sit on a 225mm high dwarf wall, built by others, (we recommend this to keep the timber out of the rain splash zone). All our oak frames are also braced at the front elevation with oak bracing but these are set back so a door frame can be inserted now or at a later date if needed. The head clearance we suggest is 2.1m but we can make this higher for 4x4 vehicles with roof racks so please ask for a quote.
As a guide we suggest three sizes based on past projects and standard car sizes:
Standard
Medium
Large
As a guide we suggest three sizes based on past projects and standard car sizes:
Standard
Medium
Large
Standard
Standard bay sizes are as shown below. To give you a sense of scale, the car model shown is a BMW i3.
Medium
The Medium range is the same depth as the Standard range but the bays are wider to accommodate a medium sized car. The car in this model below is a Nissan Leaf.
Large
The Large range is designed for larger modern cars such as the Teslas. The car in this model is the Tesla Model X.
General features
Roof pitches can be chosen from 27 degree to 50 degrees. If you choose the Standard or Medium size the roof pitch of 27 degrees gives a ridge height of 3.8m so, depending on the roof tiles you use, the overall ridge height should be approx 4m.
Timber Specification
We only use FSC or PEFC suppliers and we use UK grown timber whenever possible, suitable and available.
Oak Main Frame:
Sole plates 150mm x 75mm
Wall plates 170mm x 150mm
Tie beams 200mm x 150mm
Posts 150mm x 150mm
Braces ex 150mm x 70mm
Softwood:
Studwork 75mm x 95mm C24 grade finished in clear preservative
Rafters 145 x 45mm (section size depending on chosen pitch)
Cladding:
Feather edged profile for larch or oak:
6mm- 23mm thick x 200mm wide
Waney edged profile for larch of oak:
25mm thick x 200mm wide (varies due to waney cut)
Sole plates 150mm x 75mm
Wall plates 170mm x 150mm
Tie beams 200mm x 150mm
Posts 150mm x 150mm
Braces ex 150mm x 70mm
Softwood:
Studwork 75mm x 95mm C24 grade finished in clear preservative
Rafters 145 x 45mm (section size depending on chosen pitch)
Cladding:
Feather edged profile for larch or oak:
6mm- 23mm thick x 200mm wide
Waney edged profile for larch of oak:
25mm thick x 200mm wide (varies due to waney cut)
Oak Main Frame:
Sole plates 150mm x 75mm
Wall plates 170mm x 150mm
Tie beams 200mm x 150mm
Posts 150mm x 150mm
Braces ex 150mm x 70mm
Softwood:
Studwork 72mm x 95mm C24 grade finished in clear preservative
Rafters 145 x 45mm (section size depending on chosen pitch)
Cladding:
Feather edged profile for larch or oak:
6mm- 23mm thick x 200mm wide
Waney edged profile for larch of oak:
25mm thick x 200mm wide (varies due to waney cut)
Sole plates 150mm x 75mm
Wall plates 170mm x 150mm
Tie beams 200mm x 150mm
Posts 150mm x 150mm
Braces ex 150mm x 70mm
Softwood:
Studwork 72mm x 95mm C24 grade finished in clear preservative
Rafters 145 x 45mm (section size depending on chosen pitch)
Cladding:
Feather edged profile for larch or oak:
6mm- 23mm thick x 200mm wide
Waney edged profile for larch of oak:
25mm thick x 200mm wide (varies due to waney cut)
Garages for Electric Cars
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We champion renewable energy as well as electric vehicles and better air quality and we will help with your building design to accommodate solar panels, battery storage and electric vehicle recharging points.
The illustration shows SunPower solar PV panels to give you an idea of size and coverage possible on a 2 bay gable roof building with a 27 degree roof pitch. We can recommend a local and very experienced renewable energy installer for PV and battery storage to give you all the information about the best orientation of the building, proximity to other building and tree shading, roof pitch and general installation requirements such as electric cable sizes to make sure you have the design and specification right before you start work on your new building. If you are thinking of a building that will also generate your household electricity and shelter your electric car please talk to us and we are keen to support renewable energy projects. |
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Installation - how we do it
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Please watch the video to see how we raise a garage frame. Thanks to the Boswell Roofing team for doing such a good job on the slate roof. |