OT & FOAK: Garage extensions...

Mine is 11ft wide x 18 deep , electric door , rendered breeze block on top of a
course of stone with a tiled roof
to match the house.Cost £12k all in last year , included demolition and removal
of asbestos garage ,new base etc.
Sounds like there are advantages to living oop north...

Steve

 

Mebbe. Tho I think rendered breeze block is likely to be
significantly cheaper than brick. All I know is my stepfather built
his own garage about 8 years ago (I help dig the footings - ouch!),
and it cost him over 10k. The only stuff he paid someone to do was
the concrete for the footings and a roofer to do the, er, roof.

 

Yeah, seen that happen.

Indeed yes, I would want that, plus electric gate openers

Yeah, bummer, because I really would like to go down this route. You'd think
it would cost less, needing one less wall and all!

 

What, the price of a hire truck up a country lane?!

'Hog

 

Off the top of my head think it was £500 in a pukka disposal site - at least
thats what the builder told me...

Steve

 

Also remember that a 'flat' roof is one with ten degrees of pitch (or less)
there are tiles which can be hung at that level of slope.
Benefits of a pitched roof but the legality of a flat.

Changing from flat to pitched at a later date requires planning permission
(in Shropshire but YMMV)

Attaching your garage to the house will restrict what you may store, in
terms of flammable materials.
(Again Shropshire YMMV) So with a car in my garage.....
I am restricted to 5L of petrol in a suitable container, so keep the bike on
quarter tank or less!
One cylinder of gas. So either the camping stove or the blowlamp has to go!
One bottle of paint thinners etc etc.

Petty, but too many house fires and they start tightening up.

A separate garage has a different set of rules and regulations.

HTH

Dave

 

Coo! Didn't realise that.

I'll have to start stockpiling.

 

Yeah, already got a quote for that, from Veggie Dave's mate Jim. The
man with the biggest chopper in England.

 

That's what a load of my blokes live in.

 

Some form of man sized tube system to the cellar, with bike gear en
route, would be handy too.

 

Would concrete reinforcing mesh/grids attached between the joists be any
use against this?

 

Exackerly what I use, thought about wiring it to 240v too !

 

Be aware that there are much more stringent requirements for
a garage that'a actually attached to a house. From memory, the separating
door must have a 90 minutes(?) burn-through rating, and the door sill must
be something like 6" high to prevent pooled fuel leaking from the garage
into the residence.

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I'm slowly beginning to discover these things... Thanks for that though, all
info welcome.

TBH, it's mainly because:

a) I like the idea of being able to get into the garage straight from the
house, and
b) Putting a garage there means we'd lose the side door from the house
*anyway*, so we might as well make it an entrance to the garage.

 

I (had) built a not quite double garage on the side of my house along
with a front porch.

I paid for drawings (about 100gbp) based of my own simple ones (he added
the foundation details etc.). Submitted for PP myself.

No problems. Got permission,
I and my family/friends did the labour, poured the founds, fitted
reclaimed timber roofing joists, fitted the plywood roof etc. and then
finally laid the concrete floor.

The only extra/professional work I paid for was a retired bricky to
build the walls, a roofer to felt the roof, and a proper company to
supply and fit the custom made (size wise) door.

Inspected at the correct stages with only one problem (a drain was in
the way and they wanted it taken out and capped) - so I did - then after
it was passed - I re-used it...)

Total cost in the region of 3k including materials (most expensive
single item was the door at around 800quid).

Worth doing added about 15k to the value of the house.