Garage conversion, anyone done it?

Adam

Adam

Adam

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My mrs has had the bright idea of a garage conversion today. She has her own business and thinks the garage space would be best used for people coming to her rather than her going to them.

Anyone know what's involved? I have read it can add around 10% to the property value but I find that difficult to believe. The biggest issue for me would be where everything would be kept that is currently stored in the loft.

It's not a huge space, a standard single garage size integrated in to the house. I imagine we would need to remove the garage door and put windows in it's place. The consumer unit is in the garage and the boiler is mounted on the garage wall in the house so would be straight forward to get heating and power in.

Any thoughts on rough prices?
 
Have you thought about planning permission? If you want to convert a garage to a habitable room you may be able to do it under permissible development, but pretty sure if you want to run a business out of it you'd have to apply for a change of use.
 
Prices depend on your location (London is expensive).

A basic conversion will be at least £5k. Depends if you do any yourself though.
 
Dependant on the age of your house you may not be able to put a window in instead of the garage door. Only a concern for house 5-10 years old though typically.
 
Had my garage converted the beginning of this year, 9k in total. Kids use it now for their play room /games room etc.

Had to submit drawings and get permission from the council who had to come round through various stages of the conversion and sign of foundations etc.
 
I had my garage converted at the end of last year as part of a bigger kitchen extension so I can't split out the costs. The garage conversion was done under permitted development - our plans only included the extension on the back of the house.

End result though is that we've lost an area to store junk but as we looked at what was in the garage we decided that the vast majority of it wasn't needed so was binned or could go in the loft. We're left with a nice bright study. The house looks nicer from the outside too as an indistrial looking metal door has been replaced with a nice triple glazed window.

The consumer unit and boiler were already in the garage but the boiler was old so we had a new one installed and changed the location of it. We also replaced the consumer unit with a new metal one.

I'm very glad we had it done.
 
We had ours done about 4-5 years ago and it cost around 13k. We just needed building regs involved, no planning permission required.

Ours was an integrated garage, with the boiler in it, converted to a man cave with toilet and utility area.

The work we had done included:

New boiler & relocation of the boiler position - this also included moving of the external gas supply/gas meter by National Grid. 2 new radiators - one for man cave/office, one for toilet.

Downstairs toilet - included digging up the side and rear garden to connect to the sewerage pipe.

Moving the fuse board and lots of additional electrical points.

Having to raise the concrete floor approx. 2 foot to be level with the internal space.

Re-bracing in staircase to open up the usable space.


I have no idea if it's added any value to the house, but it's made the dumping ground a habitable dumping ground :D


We've also just had a 12x6 shed erected, now we have another dumping ground!
 
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