Priorities

[Pale Rider]

I looked at a new build house which had a very narrow garage.

Just about wide enough for a hatchback, but you would have to clamber out of the back or push the car in.

I queried this nonsense with the sales agent who told me it was a 'holiday garage' - somewhere to put the car when you took your wife and 2.2 children on the annual family package holiday.

 

[slowmotion]

I looked at a new build house which had a very narrow garage.

Just about wide enough for a hatchback, but you would have to clamber out of the back or push the car in.

I queried this nonsense with the sales agent who told me it was a 'holiday garage' - somewhere to put the car when you took your wife and 2.2 children on the annual family package holiday.

We once did a job in a show home of a new housing development. All the furniture was slightly smaller than standard so that the rooms appeared bigger to the unwary.

 

[Pale Rider]

We once did a job in a show home of a new housing development. All the furniture was slightly smaller than standard so that the rooms appeared bigger to the unwary.

Another trick is to leave off some of the internal doors.

 

[slowmotion]

Another trick is to leave off some of the internal doors.

Isn't that sold as "spacious open-plan living"? Great wheeze!

 

[screenman]

Good question. Some people say that garages usually have a higher Relative Humidity than the outdoors and less ventilation too. The net result is that your Loved One turns to rust far faster than those parked on the street.

I have not had car go rusty in the 30 years I have been putting them in a garage at night. I think you might have a bit of an urban myth going on.

Want to destroy a car quickly, park it on grass that will soon set the old corrosion thing going.

 

[screenman]

What is the benefit/purpose of having a car in a garage?

Security, no de-icing.

 

[Globalti]

Yes our garage is full of junk while two valuable cars sit outside. However the garage also contains four bicycles, one of which is of greater value to me than any car and will keep me fit and healthy through my sixties and well into my seventies and possibly eighties, I hope.

 

[screenman]

Most people I know have a lot of useless junk in their garage, along with the fact only a few who have bikes rack them neatly.

 

[mustang1]

Personally, I have 2 garages, and I can't access either. When Drago towers was built in 1960 they left enough room to drive an Austin A30 down the aside to access them... just. Modern machinery simply won't fit down the gap (my Daughters old 107 did with the mirrors folded in, but it was scary close) so one garage is old tat, the other workshop and motorbikes, and my worthless 11 year old Kia goes on the drive.

I bet the people at the bus stop think your Kia is worth a million dollars as you drive past them in the rain!

 

[mustang1]

Yes our garage is full of junk while two valuable cars sit outside. However the garage also contains four bicycles, one of which is of greater value to me than any car and will keep me fit and healthy through my sixties and well into my seventies and possibly eighties, I hope.

Good call! I hope our bikes will keep us all fit during our latter years.

To all cyclists worldwide, I wish you many happy years of riding!

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Security, no de-icing.

That was what I was thinking might be the "benefits", although I am not sure how much of a benefit either are. I can see the security element being relevant many years ago when it was more difficult to break into a packet of salt'n'shake crisps than it was to break into a car, but I'm not so sure now. And de-icing a car isn't too much of a hassle - mine is currently warming up nicely outside with the engine on but even if this was not possible it only takes a few minutes.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I bet the people at the bus stop think your Kia is worth a million dollars as you drive past them in the rain!

Not if you have just been working down the sewerage farm and want to start having a wash before you get home!

 

[Deleted member 26715]

And de-icing a car isn't too much of a hassle - mine is currently warming up nicely outside with the engine on but even if this was not possible it only takes a few minutes.

Hope the keys aren't in it or that's your insurance void, or parked on the road which is illegal

 

[Pro Tour Punditry]

Hope the keys aren't in it or that's your insurance void, or parked on the road which is illegal

The keys are in it, I don't have one of those keyless magic cars. I don't think that voids my insurance; if it's still there when I go out later I am sure I can still drive it and be insured

And it's in the drive.

 

[screenman]

That was what I was thinking might be the "benefits", although I am not sure how much of a benefit either are. I can see the security element being relevant many years ago when it was more difficult to break into a packet of salt'n'shake crisps than it was to break into a car, but I'm not so sure now. And de-icing a car isn't too much of a hassle - mine is currently warming up nicely outside with the engine on but even if this was not possible it only takes a few minutes.

I take it you have a nice private secure driveway to leave the car running on, I suppose many do not have that luxury, I can do that but the garage is easier and faster.