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Concrete Garages include Delivery and Installation

March 29, 2010

Posted in Concrete Garages — Written by Neil

Sectional concrete garage manufacturers understand that customers nowadays are looking for the complete new garage service. It is a building project after all and if everything is to go smoothly it’s important to use an experienced company who the customer can trust.

Delivery and installation of a new concrete garage is not the simplest of processes. However, many of the companies within the sectional concrete garages industry have been established for decades, some with experience of supplying thousands of customers. Such companies have the knowledge, skills and equipment to arrange the delivery and installation at a time to suit you with the professional experience all concrete garage customers desire.

New concrete garages will usually be delivered using modern, articulated lorries larger in size than a single decker bus. Such vehicles will be delivering every day on carefully planned routes designed to maximise fuel efficiency and meet customer requirements. Each vehicle will typically be carrying three or four garages, leaving the manufacturers factory early morning, well before the morning rush hour builds up to ensure the garages are delivered efficiently and in good time.

Usually waiting for the new concrete garages to arrive will be the seperate teams of garage installers or garage erectors as they are often referred. These are effectively the new garage builders and will typically install a new prefabricated single garage within four or five hours, much to the amazement of customers.

The well planned garage delivery and installation combines to generate a happy customer able to use their new garage within just a few hours after delivery.

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The different types of Compton customer

March 23, 2010

Posted in Concrete Garages — Written by Kirsten

Compton can offer every customer a concrete garage to suit their needs. There are workshops for the customer that doesn’t want to store a car but just needs a place to work. Or the customer that needs to replace an old garage but doen’t want to spend a fortune in doing so. Or the customer that only wants the best and really wants to make a feature of their building. We have concrete garages and buildings that can accomodate all these requirements and more.

We have for a long time been the garage and shed choice for people who live on Park Homes sites, as we offer buildings that use the same roofing material as the houses and so blend in seamlessly in with their surroundings.

We also have our commercial division Marshalls Sectional Buildings they have provided many schools with Extra High sectional concrete garages for storing minibuses and battery stores for PE equipment.

They can also provide solutions for clubs such as Scouts, Cricket and Bowls to name a few. They have all benefited from a Compton Building, costing significantly less than a traditional brick building.

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New Concrete Garage Order Process

March 18, 2010

Posted in Garages — Written by Neil

With thousands of garages built in the 1960s and 1970s coming to the ends of their lives, many people with these eye-sores need help. This is when your local concrete garages agent comes to the rescue.

Concrete garages agents typically have a display of modern concrete garages for you to view, so you can see how good a brand new concrete garage looks compared to many of the old, derilict garages that are sitting down the bottom of many gardens in the UK.

As well as an impressive display of concrete garages, your local agent will also be able to offer a host of services as and when required. These include a free site survey, removal of old garages including timber framed asbestos, laying a new concrete base, advising on the best new building to choose, arranging delivery & installation of your new building with the concrete garage manufacturer and ensuring your new concrete sectional garage is problem free.

So, for anyone unsure how to go about replacing an old garage, their first point of call should be their local concrete garages agent. Once the order for a brand new garage is placed with them, they will send it through to the concrete garage manufacturer who will take payment and program the new garage for delivery and installaton. The lead times are typically 4 or 5 weeks giving time for a new base to be laid or an old base to be prepared and full details of base requirements will be sent together with the order acknowledgement.

The new garage will then be delivered on a large lorry and offloaded by forklift onto your pre-prepared concrete base. A seperate installation team will then arrive to install your new garage with the delivery lorry moving on to deliver the other garages on its load.

If there are any problems with your new concrete garage, the installers are likely to have noticed and reported any problem back to the manufacturer. However, your garage will have a 10-year guarantee so the manufacturer can be contacted at any point within that time and will be prepared to rectify any issues. Details of your guarantee, care & maintenance instructions and a feedback form will be sent out the day after installation. With the opportunity to earn £££s by recommending your friends & family sent out shortly afterwards.

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Concrete Garages - time for a Spring Clean

March 15, 2010

Posted in Garages — Written by Neil

More often than not, concrete garages are no longer home to your car. The valuable extra storage space a new garage brings tends to be used almost immediately to store all those things cluttering up the house, that may come in handy at some point.

During winter time your garage may become home for garden furniture, such as benches, tables and chairs, along with the barbecue that only sees light of day on those scorching summer afternoons. Maybe, it’s used as storage for camping equipment, bicycles, scooters or other children’s toys. As well as these things, your garage in winter time might house all your summer sports equipment - your cricket gear, golf clubs, surf board etc.

With the days getting longer and the weather warmer it’s a sure sign that Spring is here. So, why not spring clean your garage? You may well find things you thought were lost years ago as well as deciding to throw things out that are now beyond use. This should help create enough space for all the things you will buy this summer that will need somewhere to go in the winter months.

To help you keep your garage tidy make sure you consider the shelf options priovided by Compton Buildings that don’t require drilling into the concrete panels. The Shelf Pack and Shelf Stack are available in various lengths and can help keep clutter off your concrete garage floor.

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Garages Planning Permission

March 11, 2010

Posted in Garages — Written by Neil

Garages are exempt from planning permission in the majority of cases as they are classed as an outbuilding. Concrete sectional garages and other outbuildings are considered to be permitted development, not requiring an application for planning permission, provided all the limits and conditions are met. Some of the conditions affecting garages are mentioned below:

Concrete garages, sheds or outbuildings must be single storey with a maximum eaves height of 2.5 metres and maximum overall height of 4 metres with a dual pitched roof, or 3 metres in any other case.

Concrete garages, sheds or other outbuildings are not permitted development forward of the principal elevation of the original house. The term original house means the house as it was first built or as it stood on 1 July 1948 (if it was built before that date).

Concrete garages, sheds, outbuildings and other additions must not exceed 50% of the total area of land around the original house. All other outbuildings, garages and extensions to the original house must be included when calculating this 50% limit.

If the concrete garage, shed or outbuilding is within 2 metres of the property boundary the whole building should not exceed 2.5 metres in height.

This information relates to England only and is provided as a guide only. For more detailed information on this is available via the government’s planning portal website.

To be permitted development, any new building must not itself be separate, self contained, living accommodation and must not have a microwave antenna.In national parks, the Broads, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and World Heritage Sites the total area to be covered by any concrete garages, sheds or outbuildings more than 20 metres from ANY WALL of the house must not exceed 10 square metres to be permitted development.Concrete garages, sheds or other outbuildings are not permitted development within the grounds of a listed building.On designated land* concrete garages, sheds or other outbuildings to the side of the house are not permitted development.

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Painted or Plastisol Garage Doors

March 8, 2010

Posted in Concrete Garages — Written by Neil

As the largest manufacturer of concrete garages in the UK, Compton Buildings provide a wide choice of doors for garage customers to choose from. The standard garage doors included in the product price are horizontally ribbed white fully finished paint. These are ready to use with no further painting required, but can be over painted if an alternative colour garage door is preferred.

A popular option is plastisol coated steel up and over garage doors. These are white vertically ribbed and are maintenance free (other than a wash down with soapy water when required). Plastisol doors are not intended to be over painted.

Both these garage door finishes are available on the main up and over garage doors and on personnel side/rear access doors. There are many more options to choose from all designed to help you choose the brand new concrete garage that is right for you.

All Compton up and over garage doors feature 4 point locking rods for additional security. They are delivered and installed together with the concrete garage so that when Compton’s garage installer leaves a customer’s site they have a garage that is secure and ready to use.

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Compton’s 10 Year no quibble guarantee

March 3, 2010

Posted in Garages — Written by Kirsten

Your product guarantee is only as good as the company you buy from, what is the value of a 10 year guarantee if the business has only been around for a few years?

Compton Buildings have been manufacturing garages, sheds and workshops from the site at Fenny Compton since being founded by Cyril Kyme on 12th November 1958. Compton has since built more concrete garages than any other company, providing valuable extra storage space and a new home for the car to over 500,000 customers.

Compton has a reputation built on trust and has a long standing 10 year guarantee and exclusive Customer Care Promise to back all garages and buildings.

Compton guarantees the structural integrity of your garage for a period of ten years from the date of purchase. Should any structural component fail during that period, Compton will repair or replace it at no cost to you provided that basic maintenance has been carried out in accordance with the Care and Maintenance instructions issued once your garage has been delivered.

Garage up and over doors are guaranteed against manufacturing defects for 2 years, and are warranted for 10 years’ safe and reliable operation.

This guarantee is in addition to your statutory rights and is transferable to any future owner of your building.

Our guarantee is one you can trust, we have been manufacturing concrete buildings for a long time and will be doing so for many years to come.