And Building A Garage Gives You Skills
That’s the story building my own garage. If you can follow it I hope that you find it useful enough to build one for yourself.
There’s so many things around your house that you can do for yourself want to take time and make the effort to learn how to do it for yourself. It is always so much cheaper to do it yourself and you get a huge sense of achievement by doing that.
And of course it gives you a series of new skills that you can apply to other things. For instance my children wanted to have a playhouse. When I thought about it I realise that a playhouse is really no different to a garage, and that if I could build a garage I could build a playhouse without any effort at all.
Because the playhouse was to be so much smaller I even mixed up my own concrete and poured it myself to make the slab for the playhouse. You could make a timber floor but it really didn’t take a lot of extra time and effort to mix up concrete and make a nice concrete floor and now it’s very easy to use and to clean.
The process is exactly the same. You make your concrete slab, you build your frames to your walls and then stand up one by one in place and bolt them together and bolt them to the concrete floor and then you have a secure frame. You add the holes for the windows and doors and that is where you’re putting your windows for the playhouse allthough in my case I didn’t even bother to put any glass in the windows because they were only small windows and they faced away from the prevailing wind and it doesn’t even matter if a little rain gets in there anyway.
And I also didn’t bother to make a door because my kids really are worried if there is a door or not, although I have to say I did make a little Veranda out the front so that the door is covered and the rain won’t blow in.
So you can see that you acquire skills doing one thing and then you can apply them to something else. It cost me about half of what you would expect it to cost to get a garage built for you and I managed to get my playhouse built for my kids without it costing very much at all.
And then you can step up to bigger projects if you feel like it.
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