Anyone know about garages..and knocking them down?

[EvesMama]

garage in new(old) house has old garage that is prob neither use nor orniment and hoping that it doesnt have asbestos in it, like most this style and age(corrugated iron typeish?), we wanted to knock it down and change area into barked play area for dd and mindees..is it easy enough to do ourselves with a big sledge hammer or are we kidding ourselves and require the services of'ooooofff..big job luv types?

My brother invited a few friends round with sledge hammers, and demolished his in an afternoon, then followed it up with a party. You will need a very large skip though.

yeah, i dont suppose you can fold the iron neatly into bin bags for weekly bin men eh?..do your brothers mates fancy flexing their pecs again!

He lives in France
Good fun if it doesn't rain, and great for relieving stress!

ooh, bring me the sledge hammer!
so we dont need to 'contact' anyone about knocking it down then?like a reverse planning permission?i know that sounds a bit daft!

so anyone know how much to build new one?

You really need to make sure there isn't asbestos there first before you started swinging sledge hammers.

We knocked ours down, and it was massively hard work! There was some asbestos which we had professionally taken away, and the garage itself filled 6 skips of rubble, so you have to be prepared to shift that amount of rubbish! Has made a huge difference to the garden though.

Surveyor should be able to check for asbestos and advise you.

My local council gave me some very useful advice on asbestos garage roofs. Much better than the surveyor who made it out to be a very difficult issue. \link{http://www.bromley.gov.uk/environment/envhealth/asbestos/advice_cement_sheds_garages.htm\here} is their fact sheet