With the site cleared and the tree root protection in place time to start building. Whilst waiting for the pilers the garages can be built.

The garages sit on a simple reinforced concrete raft foundation. The clay on which the driveway sits is expected to swell and shrink with the seasons - the garage slab should move with the driveway. Here the formwork has been placed around the slab.

Once the reinforcement has been placed and tied the concrete can be poured - the slabs required approx 10 cubic meters of concrete each.

As the concrete cures it is floated to give a nice smooth finish to the floor.

The garage walls are built - note no piers - the engineer designed the walls to use 140mm thick blocks with morter bed reinforcement (however the door location does require addition support for the walls to be placed later).

The garage trusses and timber framed gable wall arrive on site.

For the garage opening no lintel is required - the top part of the gable ends are timber framed and designed to have the same outer profile as the roof trusses. No gable ladder is required keeping the roof design as simple as possible. (the vehicle at the front is a concrete pump - more of that later).

The 6m square garages have a 40 degree pitch - plenty of room for storage - an attic truss was used to make the most of the space.