My garage is filling up...

[photodog]

WIth boaty stuff.

Just added a second dingy, and had a new sail delivered as well.

Any more stuff and the wife's car is not going to be able to fit in, Which is a problem cause on street parking here is a non starter.

So what should I do???


I was thinking about selling the car and getting her a bus pass.

What does the gang think?

 

[CoVianna]

That you only have a short time left to live if you do that!

 

[Biggles Wader]

Get the car a roof rack and stick the stuff on that.Any more stuff can go in the car.She will never notice.

 

[ffiill]

My Dads garage reached the point where you could hardly get through the door.
Never ever would I be like that.
Well you can get through the door of my workshop which is about 4 average garages wide and one and half long.
BUT its still full!!

 

[colind3782]

I have an aircraft hangar and it's starting to get scary!

 

[Pete7]

Rent a storage unit to store a £100 worth of stuff which will cost £600 a year, problem solved.

Shouldn't the sails be on the boat

 

[Searush]

Post the low value not likely to be wanted stuff on marinaskip.

 

[Deleted member 36384]

.....I was thinking about selling the car and getting her a bus pass.

What does the gang think?

That's the spirit! A man can never have too much stuff. Stuff will get you through a day of no sex, more than sex will get you through a day of no stuff and don't let them convince you otherwise! Woman can't drive, it's a chromosome thing. It follows that selling her car allows you to have cash to buy more stuff and free up room to store it. It will also, at a fortuitous stroke, remove any pretentious she may have of being an equal to a man in mastering complicated mechanical things - false expectations. You are doing the little thing a favour and preventing her from feeling the disappointment of failure. She will respect your decisions.

 

[Blueboatman]

Double deep basements and sunken, lift-accessed garages are the very ticket amongst the oilgarch Kensington set.

Surely the missus would not fail to appreciate the convenience of an in house swimming pool, sauna, his/hers 'sheds' , cinema and of course the sail loft? And an empty garage to park her bicycle in ....?

Moi, I have a raised garage shelf big enough and deep for dinghy n sails n other essential boaty props...

 

[SimbaDog]

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[Daydream believer]

Buy yourself a 2.400 * 2400 security container. Line it with some insulation to stop condensation
Wife should fit perfectly!!

 

[crewman]

Buy your wife a low sports car (because she is worth it), then you can store all your stuff hanging from the rafters!

I am divorced.....

 

[photodog]

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Ah, I doubt she will go for that, the bathroom has carpet in it.


(plus it's Gotham.... Yeck.)

 

[CoVianna]

(plus it's Gotham.... Yeck.)

Snob!

 

[GrahamHR]

Double deep basements and sunken, lift-accessed garages are the very ticket amongst the oilgarch Kensington set.

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Both where we lived in Switzerland and in Holland we had dry below ground and in the case of Zeeland, below sea level basements and garages. The technoloy is there since 30+ years, Admittedly in Switzerland it was the nuclear fall out shelter ( with a tunnel to the escape hatch in the garden, where you could climb into a rescue vehicle if they ever came to pick up foreigners, that is !). With the price of land so high in the UK, I don't understand why basements/ below ground garages aren't the norm here ; you can basically have a basement+ garage on the same footprint as the main house and there's no need to waste land for a garage.

 

[Blueboatman]

Dig for victory!
Surprisingly easy, indeed ' the norm' in many postal districts, tho involving structural engineer, planning permission, building regs, p/wall agreements, insurance, notif to existing insurers, surveys before during and after, removal of waste, inconvenience dirt n noise, temp/drought/frost considerations, pouring concrete and ramming in the 'right' sequence...and of course a higher rateable banding.. But all well understood by those affected or involved now..
.. And sadly in many parts of London people choose to add a full roof extension and/or huge basement as it is actually cheaper than paying stamp duty and fees in moving to buy a bigger house, new schools or longer commute hassle..
And of course it is a tax free gain when you come to sell..your own home..but they do all tend to look the same, baaa baa.

Double deep basements and sunken, lift-accessed garages are the very ticket amongst the oilgarch Kensington set.

QUOTE]

Both where we lived in Switzerland and in Holland we had dry below ground and in the case of Zeeland, below sea level basements and garages. The technoloy is there since 30+ years, Admittedly in Switzerland it was the nuclear fall out shelter ( with a tunnel to the escape hatch in the garden, where you could climb into a rescue vehicle if they ever came to pick up foreigners, that is !). With the price of land so high in the UK, I don't understand why basements/ below ground garages aren't the norm here ; you can basically have a basement+ garage on the same footprint as the main house and there's no need to waste land for a garage.

 

[Tranona]

Not only that, but the latest is to extend your underground bunker under the road outside so you get extra "land" for nothing.

 

[Lakesailor]

Is this garage of Photodog's a very emotional garage...?

 

[Blueboatman]

G

Not only that, but the latest is to extend your underground bunker under the road outside so you get extra "land" for nothing.

The silly twonk ( I assume you refer to latest Not' Hill directorbankerwanker) went up agin the council, Ruby Wax AND the mayors sister..

 

[Tranona]

G

The silly twonk ( I assume you refer to latest Not' Hill directorbankerwanker) went up agin the council, Ruby Wax AND the mayors sister..

Despite the opposition, suspect he will win in the end. The rejection was to do with changes above ground level. Understand he will not be the first to build under roads.