of Double Garages

Has anyone built one recently? Thermal block with brick skin or cavity wall
brick sort of thing. Roof profile that allows plenty of storage without
looking like a second storey.

I can find prices for prefab stuff, but in York that's baiting the Planners,
nothing for conventional construction though. So how much?

So many things have become bizarrely expensive in Engerland. Colleague round
corner just had a single car size garage added to the end of his house, with
a room above and the original roof line extended. Eighty Fucking Grand.

"Mostly labour" he said. Good grief a team of 6 blokes working for a month
could build an entire fucking house, but lets imagine they only achive a
3x9m 2 storey extension. 960 man hours. <shakes head>

 

Just hire the skills that you need from an agency. Thats what the building
contractors do and then multiply the agency rate by the date.

 

Get quotes. Ask around for recommendations.

I had a 12' x 24' single garage built about 12 years ago, single skin,
pitched roof, about £8k. Single storey extension, 13' x 25', about 6 or 7
years ago, £20k-ish.

 

No, but I will be next month if all goes to plan.

For a garage?!? **** that!

Shedloads if you pay someone else to do it. Probably under 1500 quid if
you DIY & forget about brick skins & cavities.

 

Are you suggesting that garages shouldn't be warm and cozy? My house in
Scotland had a 3 car garage built with cavity wall and d/glazing as well as
heating. It's fanastic and encourages fettling into the wee hours rather
than watching TV or playing WoW. Getting a windproof seal around the
up/over doors was the hard bit.

You can also store stuff without mildew growing.

Do I look like an Oirish Fucking Navvy.......

 

If you might want to turn it into a habitable room a couple of years down
the line...

 

No, but if you want it warm & cozy, single skin block with insulation
on the inside will be far better & cheaper.

 

....you have to build it completely differently to meet the regs e.g.
floor/roof insulation. And if you're not worried about regs, you can
just add insulated stud walls to convert it.

 

http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/en...kcommonoutbuildings/workmorebregsoutbuilding/

Building a detached garage of less than 30 square metres floor area
would not normally need building regulations approval if:

* the floor area of the detached garage is less than 15
square metres.
* the floor area of the garage is between 15 square metres
and 30 square metres, provided the garage is at least one metre from
any boundary, or it is constructed from substantially non-combustible
materials.

So forget the planners and go prefab with 29.95 Sq M of floorspace.

 

Fair comment. But I think it needs to be red brick outer.

 

Yeahbut it's quite a nice old red brick house and TBH I'd rather it matched
anyway.

as Krusty suggests, single skin with an insulation layer and drywall inside
isn't a bad plan.

A steel frame with brick forming the walls would be a nice and quick system.

 

I pasted the wrong link earlier, this is the one saying no planning
permission needed..
http://www.planningportal.gov.uk/england/public/buildingwork/projects/workcommonoutbuildings/


Also you can get Brick finish on prefab these days
http://www.comptonbuildings.co.uk/Concrete+Garages/Apex+Brick+Garages/Garages.chtml?intProductID=29

 

I'd strongly suggest that you used some sort of cavity block to stop
condensation. I've got a single-skin garage and besides getting fucking
cold it's been a bugger to stop condensation and water being driven
through the single skin wall.

Agree completely on the DIY point though.

 

We went for one of those, only the posh Banbury Spar job. Been there about
7 years and very happy with the job. Compton sent a snagger after the
installation to make sure all was well and, as detailed in another thread,
did a good job of sealing the walls to the base.

 

That's the job, cheers.
I'd seen brick effect facias for the front but not for the walls.

 

We had the garage made longer than standard with a wide side door. Room to
park a car, as long as it's not a Daimler, plus have a bike or ride-on
mower against the back wall. Bike/mower can be ridden out of the garage
without shunting the car.

 

I'm was thinking 911 length plus bike workshop/storage with side door. So
4.5m plus. ~8m. Something like WUN constructed.

 

Racedeck flooring?

 

Heh I don't think you can get that in the UK.
I last used some oil resistant cushion lino with some spare office carpet
tiles around the bike ramp area.

 

Perhaps not Racedeck - but certainly other brands:
http://dynotile.co.uk/ for example.

Yuk.