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This is next door where I grew up. With extreme care you can back a Saab 900 into that garage.

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Pity, that house just deserves a 9000.

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BTW, such a coincidence, that layout reminds me of a place where an friend of mine used to live, house on a hillside. Yet in Italy, different architecture, but healthy all the same. You keep climbing, no need for a fitness studio membershipā€¦

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Thanks Guy.

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ā€¦as if. :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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There are so many ā€œMalvernsā€ I donā€™t think I have been to Malvern Wells.

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Great, West, North, Link, Wells, Little, itā€™s not complicated :wink:

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For you maybe :grimacing:

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Why are garage entrances so small, is it a private joke amongst architects ?

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I suspect itā€™s a building regs minimum from years ago when cars were smaller. Now it suits the house builders as smaller = cheaper.

How the fuck they can call it a garage when you canā€™t open the doors on anything bigger than a smart car baffles me

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Agreed - cars were fundamentally smaller.

My garage is titchy. The previous lady owner of the used to get a massive Jag in using the cunning contrivance of a dogā€™s squeaky toy gaffer-taped to a washing machine at the end of the garage. When the toy squeaks youā€™re as far into the garage as you can get :+1:

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Could she open the doors or did she have to climb out the sunroof?

I think they should make the minimum size a Ford Focus with both doors open +15cm or so front and back , otherwise itā€™s a big cupboard, not a garage

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Or at least big enough to convert to a decent music room ā€¦

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There would appear to be a wide range of sizes that meet that criteriaā€¦ eh @Jim ?

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:unamused: Fuck you, and the garage you rode in on.

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I didnā€™t know it was THAT small :flushed:

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All joking aside @Jim, what is the plan? Are you going to extend and reconfigure to get the room you want? It must be a pain using headphones all this time.

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Bit of a sorry saga really Olan. I had two architects quote for the design, drawings, planning application, etc before lockdown, but then everything stalled in March.

After lockdown I contacted both again, but one decided that it was still too risky to return to work and the other was, by then too busy :roll_eyes:

I then found another chap; his price was good (cheaper than the previous two) so I instructed him. Turns out he was shit - kept on chasing him but no progress, so I fucked him off.

I had another architect quote me last week and he seemed sensible, honest about timings and his price was acceptable, so Iā€™ve given him the go-ahead.

All very frustrating. The Stax headphone set-up Mickyricky loaned to me is superb - fantastic SQ, but yes, Iā€™m missing my system! :slightly_frowning_face:

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Yeah, we had real issues with architects. We finally found one via a builder we intended to use. Then we had to fuck the builder off. Once we got the builder who did our work there was a serious revision of the plans by he and I. Then engineering drawings etc and a fuck around with the council. It was a total ball-ache. Iā€™m sorry I reminded myself of it all really :grin: :grin:. Hopefully you will avoid all the pain. We are thrilled with the results so it was probably worth all the arse-acheā€¦I think.

I have a Stax rig. I quite like them as they produce realistic bass. Nothing like big speakers in a decent room though.

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True, but you forget that Jim can flap his own trousers.

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