Little Garage Conversion - 'The dog house'

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So today the joiner came to start fitting the doors downstairs.

He managed to fit the fire door in the new room (sorry for the Abstract photo but only way I could get the whole wall in:





On a separate note he also fitted the Oak doors in the living room (doors to oil and protective film still needs to be removed on the glass panels):



Next the Joiner is back tomorrow to finish the rest of the Oak doors downstairs and also fit the door to complete the cupboard housing the boiler. Then the plasterer is coming in on Friday or Monday to finish the room.

Really happy with how it is coming along. Will need to get round to uploading the other pics on Imgur since Photobucket has nuked itself now.

 

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Plasterer was in yesterday, boarded up, installed insulation and fitted the window board. Back today to Skim the walls but this is what it was left like yesterday:



Joiner back tomorrow to fit remaining doors downstairs, finish the doors in the garage and either cut skirting & arch for me to fit or if plaster is dried enough install this also.

Getting there!

 

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Updated the opening post with the before images.

 

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Plastering all done and very happy with the work:




This is what it looks like when the garage door is open, just going to polyfill and emulsion this side, along with the breeze blocks:



I need to sort the storage solutions out for the 'garage' part but this is a very quick snap of everything that was essentially using up the whole garage space before:



Joiner here tomorrow, if we get chance I hope he can do the skirting and arch for me, but main tasks are to complete all doors. My budget is very quickly depleting so if worst comes to worse I will get the mitre saw out and do myself but whilst he is here I would prefer to include and get the most out of my day rate!!

 

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OK so pretty much to the point where I will be decorating the room now, need to do get the filler out and sort a few things out on the original walls and also decorator chaulk around the skirting and arch but very happy with the result so far:





Next update will be of the painted room with a bit of luck!

 

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Very nice, giving me the itch to do something similar to mine to make into a PC room.

Thanks, it's a great use of space. However I am way over budget. But in total I still think it has 'only' cost around £2k including the oak doors downstairs and fitting. Still need say £50 on paint and maybe £150 for carpet but for an extra usable room it makes a good bit of difference to our lifestyle and freeing up the bedroom upstairs.

 

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We were going to do the same to half of our garage (the half that's left as we extended our kitchen into the garage).

Out of interest, how much has it cost you to do all of that? I think our quote was coming out at 7k albeit we would have the garage door taken away and bricked up.

Just posted as you did, i think all in £2k but this also included 6 oak doors. We didn't need to add much insulation as it was already there, just on the stud wall nor has it any heating in but its a warm house anyway and the pc will heat it up in winter!

Have you considered just leaving the garage door in place and just fit a stud wall behind?

 

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OK so a bit more progress:

Sockets are all fitted and working
Laid the flooring
Holes and walls repaired
White wash has been applied to the walls

Need to fit a tiny bit of skirting and then just waiting for the decorator to paint next week!

 

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To make the room integrated to the rest of the house you can see in the below images that I removed the threshold, laid some small pieces of tiles, grouted and fitted a new threshold...looks much better. Oh, I also fitted some new architrave as the joiner who fitted the previous didn't fit it right and was annoying me (see how much door casing was showing)!

Before:



After:

 

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Looking good but any reason why the skirting went in prior to the flooring? How are you managing the gaps for expansion/shrinking?

Skirting was popped back off and refitted after the flooring. Original plan was to stick carpet down, however that changed after we saw the deal on flooring.

 

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OK so finally in! New desk purchased but can't work out what I want to do with the chair as yet, It is very comfy and the best thing about it is it cost me nothing due to an office clearance.

The room is very empty so need to get a filing cabinet and also some storage, maybe something like the Ikea Cube storage. Need to get some pictures on the wall also!

Anyway just to remind you how it looked:



And as of 5 min ago:





It didn't go without an absolute nightmare...when I was moving bits around I had tripped on the stairs whilst carrying my LG ultrawide:



Gutted is quite an understatement!!!!!!

 

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Just to confirm, it's hard to tell with image hosting issues, you've had half the garage converted? Is the remaining half "outside" the house rather than internal?

I've got a fully internal garage that I want to convert but I was thinking 60/40 utility, with the 40 staying like you have as a garage for bikes etc.

I'm trying to work out of the garage part would need to be plastered? If half of it is properly converted and plastered, could I just insulated and plyboard the 40% that remains?

Also, do you think you and I might have any issues selling with half a garage? Would it be better to do a full conversion then partition it?

Argh

If you look at post #44 it should hopefully show you how the garage looks with the garage door open and looking whilst standing out the front of house. The garage is 100% integrated to the house. This picture is taken looking from the door from the house:



In the images in #44 you can also see that the right hand wall is still breeze block...it will be staying like this however when I come to build the worktop and shelves this will be getting painted white.

We are not planning on moving so was never considered, however in my opinion leaving some garage is better than none...this is my second house with a garage and so far removing all the 'crap' which was usually stored in there I am able to store all the bits which have always lived in garage. If we did ever come to sell and the buyers wanted a garage in theory they could just remove the stud wall if they wanted.

 

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Looks good, nice usable room and like you say you still keep a bit of storage space.

My only concern is how much light is showing through from the garage around the door in an earlier pic.

Have you thought about draft excluders etc to keep the cold out?

Thanks, very pleased with how it has turned out.

Yeah there is a bit of daylight around the main door, I will be looking at that ready for the winter.