A lot of houses have been built without any way to store your car but you can build a garage yourself once you know the basics.

You first need to assess the skills involved in creating a garage. Concrete work, cement blocks, carpentry, electrical work and plumbing, combined with a lot of hard work is going to be involved, any part of the construction you are not familiar with is best left to professionals. You will definitely be bale to attach the wall protector yourself though.

Then you need to get in touch with the council to make sure that your building meets standards and can get a permit. your design plans will need to be approved before you can go ahead. You can find out who to go to for this approval by speaking to local contractors or businesses.

You should measure the ground where you are going to build your garage. The bottom should be at least eight inches below the planned finished level to allow for gravel to be placed before concrete is poured for the floor. The footer is the next project and should be dug deep enough to be below the frost line in your climate. If you know how to build a garage you can either lay three or four layers of cement blocks on top of the footer, or use what is termed a floating slab for the floor, meaning that after the footer is in place, the concrete is poured and allowed to become part of the side wall.

Side walls can be attached to the concrete blocks of the wall or the floating slab as described above once a vapour has been placed between the wood and the floor. You also need to be able to read design plans if you are to build the garage yourself. Leaving the appropriate space for doors or windows and where to allow space to run electrical and possibly plumbing lines is al needed.

You can get garages that are in a kit so all of the materials and instructions come together from your local hardware shop.