{"id":7079,"date":"2025-12-14T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7079"},"modified":"2025-12-15T19:24:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T19:24:17","slug":"car-care-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshflattsfarm.org.uk\/wordpress\/?p=7079","title":{"rendered":"Car Care Facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A day of dry and not-too-cold weather provided a long-overdue opportunity to wash the worst of the building site mud off the BMW i3 and to give it a coat of Autoglym Extra Gloss Protection to try to stop it getting too dirty too quickly again over the Winter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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BMW i3 Outside the Garage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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BMW i3 Inside the Garage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The outside space works very well for washing the car, with two outside taps (fed from the rainwater harvesting tank) and the permeable block paving draining the water away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Even with the boot and bonnet open the car still looks small inside the garage, with plenty of room all around for access – and scope to accommodate much larger vehicles. (The i3 is exactly 4m long whereas larger estate cars can easily be 5m – but the garage is more than 6m, at the insistence of the original Architect.) The lighting works well, with four pairs of outdoor-grade Philips LED fittings – each pair being switchable independently. Each light fitting draws 42.9W so that’s 343W if they’re all on – which seems like a huge wattage for LED lights but the illumination level seems about right (and will improve once the walls get painted white).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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