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nathy_87
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Registered: 14th Aug 08
Location: West Mids. Drives: Škoda Fabia VRS 5J
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15th Dec 11 at 17:02   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
what have you done in your garage (if anything) to prevent the door getting hit on the concrete?

Nismo
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Can just about see it here, I have fixed carpet with foam behind it to the wall.
Neil
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16th Dec 11 at 10:13   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Do you mean, the car door hitting the garage wall, or the garage door hitting the floor?

If it's the car door, just a bit of carpet along the wall when the door opens.
_Allan_
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16th Dec 11 at 10:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Carpet along the wall is popular as said or you can splash out and get some rubber/foam bump strips.

http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/260890633096?var=lv&ltyp=AllFixedPriceItemTypes&var=sbar

Plenty of products available.
Ben J
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16th Dec 11 at 12:22   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
My Dad has done the carpet on wall trick. Not that its needed atm.



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Jimbothebarbarian
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16th Dec 11 at 14:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Buy a wider garage?
nathy_87
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16th Dec 11 at 18:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Ok cheers guys, how are you attaching the carpet to the walls?
Ian
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16th Dec 11 at 18:28   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote


Made it massive

What is the wall behind? Brick or breeze block?
mattk
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16th Dec 11 at 19:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by nathy_87
Ok cheers guys, how are you attaching the carpet to the walls?


screws?
Ben J
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16th Dec 11 at 19:41   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Think my Dad used screws/rawplugs with nice big washers to stop the screw head pulling through the carpet.
nathy_87
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16th Dec 11 at 19:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
.

I've got breeze blocks at the back of my garage but it leads on to a field.
chr15barn3s
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A piece of the sticky back foam that you use to stick behind speakers and subs etc... Had a square of it hanging round in the garage. Perfect! Really sticky too and has been up 3 years on shitty dusty concrete.
kennySRi
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16th Dec 11 at 23:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
I have never thought of putting carpet on the wall...what's wrong with just being careful whilst getting out? You don't see cars with carpet on their doors parking on car parks
Ben G
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16th Dec 11 at 23:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
sometimes it can't be helped.

the wind could blow it open or you'd be fixing something and it'd just hit the wall.

has happened to me many times as my garage isn't that big.

carpet is the most popular fix i find. my dad recommended it as it's cheap and easy.
Graham88
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17th Dec 11 at 01:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Plus putting a bit of carpet on the wall as a prevention is a bit easier than having the hassle of a dented door getting it resprayed etc

I'd do it if I could get my car in my garage I need another one just to keep my car in.
chr15barn3s
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17th Dec 11 at 10:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
My Rocco is too wide to get in and out of without. Plus the door is so thick it doesn't leave much room at all.
Jed D
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17th Dec 11 at 20:16   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
i haven't got a garage


...wey i have but...



its more like a brick shed that you'd struggle to get access to in a old mini
kennySRi
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17th Dec 11 at 23:19   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
How wide is that Jed? It's a joke that houses come with garages so narrow.
Ben G
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18th Dec 11 at 00:17   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
how wides that? think mines about 8'6'' and still have trouble walking round with the puma in there.
Jake
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18th Dec 11 at 01:25   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
the opening of that garage is about 1.9m
Toby
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Ripped up the carpet from my old bedroom at my mums when I left. Used wooden battens on one side but on the other I actually just screwed to the wall using raw plugs and generic screws

 
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