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Help! Need some advice please!

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  • 25-05-2011 12:16am
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    Mango Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭


    Need to mark out my Garage foundations tomorrow (ie today Wednesday!) and want to allow only enough room between garage and house for storing an average family sized camper van (I know this is vague) behind the Garage when not in use, ie to drive it in carefully.

    The reason I need this distance, hopefully with your help is that I don't want to eat into the whole back garden by pushing garage back etc....

    Garage is 3 feet away from rear wall corner over towards neighbours due to a path so just need to work out how far back towards the back hedge it needs to be!

    Hope that makes sense - maybe someone out there has just enough clearance and can measure for me!?!?!


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    peasant
    Registered Users Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant


    Average footprint of a camper would be 2.5 x 7 ish meters

    But don't forget ...to move that thing in there you'll need a fair bit of room to maneuvre. If you can't drive straight into that space, the radius of any curves would have to be fairly big.


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    WildWater
    Registered Users Posts: 721 ✭✭✭WildWater


    Make sure you also allow for any roof overhang and gutters.


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    Mango Joe
    Registered Users Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭Mango Joe


    Thanks all - Wish I had a loan of one for a test run or someone on here had a similar set up and could advise of the exact distance to mark down for that Garage corner!

    Cheers,

    Joe.


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    paddyp
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,927 ✭✭✭paddyp


    If you need to come at that space at *any* kind of an angle it will need to be wider again. My father in law ended up with about 4 inches either side with the mirrors folded (can't see where you're going) and it took soo much manoevering to get it in that it put him off taking it out.


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