{"id":67,"date":"2016-04-24T19:17:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T18:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/2016\/04\/24\/garage-conversion-part-5-digging-some-holes\/"},"modified":"2021-06-08T18:55:17","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T17:55:17","slug":"garage-conversion-part-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.hslracing.com\/myhome\/2016\/04\/garage-conversion-part-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Garage Conversion Part 5 – Digging some Holes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday 23rd April<\/h3>\n

John’s helper Luca spent most of the week digging a couple of holes for foundations.<\/p>\n

This is because the garage floor slab is only a few inches thick.<\/p>\n

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Each hole is 3 foot deep and about 2 foot square<\/p>\n

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There was enough clay to nearly fill a 4 yard builders skip at about 4-5 tons.<\/p>\n

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John and Luca mixed the concrete directly in the holes.<\/p>\n

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Here is a hole we cut in the cinema room wall for access to the rear of the shower, such that if I ever need to replace it, I don’t need to dismantle the shower enclosure.<\/p>\n

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 A couple of close-ups of the rear of the shower mixer unit<\/p>\n

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Sunday 24th April<\/h3>\n

We also decided to bring in a sofa to check for fit.<\/p>\n

This was the point at which we decided that the original plan was not going to work, as unless we used a really narrow sofa, you just couldn’t get past it to use the garage door end for the screen.<\/p>\n

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As a result we decided in stead to turn the sofa sideways, and this actually seemed to give much more room.<\/div>\n
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Here is the new layout once again:<\/div>\n
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Here you can see a trial fit of a 65″ television shape on the wall of the cinema room, taken from being seated on the sofa in the picture above..<\/p>\n

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