All,

In the back of any of the classic car mags, there's a selection of ads for
flat-pack timber garages.

As the timber single garage we currently have is rather past tense, I'm
currently thinking about alternatives.

The current garage is roughly 18' x 12', rough clad on a square section
frame, with a steeply pitched tiled roof.

The whole thing is fairly knackered - the cladding's dead, the frame is not
great, and the roof tiles are very, erm, wobbly. The door aperture isn't
square, and the windows don't shut.

To my mind, this isn't going to be sensible to repair, and replacement is
the obvious answer.

Does anybody have any experience, recommendations or dis-recommendations of
any of the various suppliers?

One thing that I think I'm going to have to do is increase the size of the
concrete base - the current garage seems to measure about 3100mm wide, but
the new ones all seem to be 3400mm. Is slapping a 300mm wide strip of
concrete to the side of the existing slab an option, or do I have to
consider replacing the whole bloody lot? eeeek

To complicate it, external access to one whole side and to the lower
section of the back is not possible, due to a neighbour's garage and to a
low wall.

Final question - Power! To my mind, it seems easiest to take power down
some external conduit to the garage - it'd be easy to take the feed from
fusebox (MCB, but I just can't bear to call it a "consumer unit"..) out,
and along several external walls fairly unobtrusively. Feasible? Or do I
have to bury the soddin' thing underground - which is going to involve
lifting a lot of brick paving.