The roof will have to be angled and sit onto on the neighbours garage. I can not secure it under the garage gutter as they have vents in the wall..and im not sure how I would do the guttering as the water will have to go somewhere.. I may get a roof put up next week to see how it goes - it will have to sit maybe 0.5" off the neighbours roof as I don't want them complaining..
I guess u could get around the condensation issue by putting the bike in when it's cold..or leaving the door open for a while if the bike is hot..
The condensation comes from the weather not the bike.. I always leave the doors open for a while if the bike goes in hot to let it cool down anyway. Would I bike cover not suffice for the alley?
I got one. If it's a 'bikesafe' they come in 3 sizes. Mine is the biggest. Plenty room for the blade, tools, cleaning stuff, buckets and paddock stands. I quite comfortably managed to fit my clip ons in there too.
the bigger would have been ideal..though its only 30cm wider... Motorcycle MK Bike Store - Motorbike Storage - MK Containers you got a pic of it with and without your bike in it? how do you get around the condensation issue - if you have it that is..?
@samuk... just PM'd you. My mates shed (which he thinks is the BikeSafe large one) is for sale... has been sat dismantled in his garage for the last few years... immaculate as far as I know. If you, or anyone else for that matter, are interested, I will get more details such as exact make/model/size and selling price...... let me know.
Well, in the end did not buy the bike shed, as it would have cost me close to £500 including the transport.. its costing near the same amount to get a roof put in the alleyway - this is hopefully being doen this weekend..then i will invest in a shutter..and bobs your uncle! its 1.2m wide and very long + i can store other bits and bobs in there too...
You can not beat bricks and mortar, i know one guy who puts his 1098 in a sort of kids big wooden play house !!! I would not be happy leaving my £80 Raleigh push bike in there let alone a bike like that, my £4000 954 blade is in a concrete garage, with extra locks on the front door, a Hardie ground anchor and Almax chain into the concrete floor, i have the house alarm linked into the garage via a radio controlled module which has a PIR in the corner, i have also added shock sensors to the door and the window.... and the window has 10mm perspex screwed to the inside of the hardwood frame !!!!! And thats a £4k bike.
Yea, but you are in Manchester mate, eclipsed in theft rate only by scouse land, where they steal the steam off someones turd.
Just hope the neighbours dont mind me popping some wood on there garage walls! The garages belong to 3 different people..and asking each one would not have been easy.. The door was already attached to there wall..so should be ok.. Besides the top of the garage is over flowing in my alley space!
I'm not up on planning Sam, but looking at that and other things I reckon your going to have a shit load of headaches with that mate. I agree the gate post is fastened to the garage wall. That's an essential part of security. The roof of yours looks as though it's going to go on the neighbouring garage using their guttering? And with your roof covering some or most of it and the wall they will not be able to maintain it. The guttering may not cope with the extra rain water And they are going to blame your extra m2 of roofing for generating it. The garage wall where the batons have been fastened is it a joint/boundary wall? If it isn't you would require building a separate wall for your timbers. I hope someone will come along and prove me totally wrong on the couple of quick points I've made. Planning is a fcukin nightmare nowadays, hope its all good for you mate. Fingers crossed.
My roofs not resting on there roof..I think there guttering will cope fine..if it does not my alley will get flodded.. I have left space for own guttering just in case to go at the end.. There garage is on my side of the party wall..an he top is in my space.. I don't think they will complain..as they can't see this side from there end..there entrance is from another road...and is closed off..
All good then mate. I just don't like the idea of someone getting in the shite with local planning tying up your time when you should be riding your bike
Na, you made a fair point.. Neighbours I think are reasonable...I did have a conversation with one who owns ones of the garages - he gave me the idea of the roof..but not attaching the batons - I was going to create my own wall..well cement the battons to be floor and bring them up..but thought really theres no point..I'm pretty sure there on the boundary wall... If anything I will remove them from the wall and run full posts to the floor and cement them in.. Roofs not going in till next week..
I had this wooden garage built at my old place, 20x20 and didnt need planning. One of the neighbours complained to the council, I did run it all past the planning people before I went ahead but due to the complaint an inspector came round to make sure it was to the original plan. All OK, neighbours could do nothing not that it affected anyone anyway. I was inclined to paint a big "up yours" on the roof.
Totally predudice to our Liverpool partners............ but also with a basis in fact !!! Where i live is not bad at all, but parts of this fair city resemble Mogadishu on a bad day.
