With my single detached garage now water-tight, which you may have read all about in the March 2023 issue, it was a prime opportunity to add some final touches while empty. My main objective was to create an accessible, warm, bright, dry, level workshop with plenty of room to shift around any one of my household fleet of four vehicles in various states of repair – I hope I didn’t bite off more than I could chew! With a fairly modest footprint of 5.7m x 3m (18ft 7in x 9 ft 8in) to work with, I would have to plan this with a bit of attention. A good mantra I learnt was ‘floorspace is king’, the objective being to move as much off the floor as possible as you will see in these next few pages.
Insulating the ceiling
With only OSB (Oriented Strand Board), membrane and tiles protecting the garage from the elements above, its current state offered nothing in the way
