Adding door through to garage

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Does anyone know costs involved in putting door through house to integral garage? Has anyone had one done recently and did it take long?

Only complication is relocatinf radiator to wall to left and re-routing 1 pipe in garage which runs across that wall.

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I'm following as I'd like to do this too, same scenario!

Ours is a new build and it was an additional extra when we bought it and the builders would have charged £450. I suspect it would be quite a bit more now the radiator and pipe need to be moved.

I did t a quote of £1100 a few years back but that didn't include the door which has to be a fire door!

@startalovetrain

I was hoping the radiator wouldn't add too much to the cost as it would just be put onto a wall right next to it.

No idea how much a fire door and frame are, it's just a bit of hassle going out front into garage to our chest freezer in winter.

You would think all new builds would come with a door through to integral garage these days. Our house was built 1979 though so they didn't care so much about access to garage - though wish they did as boiler and consumer unit are in there too.

I don't think they're standard as people view it as a security risk as well as limiting wall space. I wouldn't buy a house with one (not saying you shouldn't do it obviously, just answering the point about why they're not more standard in new builds)

That's fair enough, my garage door and a new internal fire door won't be as secure as my front door that's for sure however bit of hassle for a burgalur to get through two doors to get in before alerting anyone in house.

We paid about £500 but it was 8 years ago and no pipe work was moved.

Makes a massive difference.

We also had a new roller garage door fitted which cost a lot more!

We want to put a personnel door in our external garage, it was £500 extra on a new build list we saw a few years ago. I'm kind of surprised by that as I thought the door itself would be around that?

There is an alternative location to get a door in where you wouldn't have to move a radiator, just a couple of pipes in garage instead. That would be through the utility cupboard in kitchen rather than in entrance hall at bottom of stairs.

I guess i would just ask a builder for quotes of both and see what is cheapest.

We just had the same done. The door opening/making good etc alone cost £750. We also had a radiator that needed moving but the cost of that was part of the kitchen renovation...

@FollowingAmirage

Oh i see, hoping it wouldn't be particually more than £1,000 - £1,500 all in.

We paid £750 but supplied the actual door. Plus we changed the horizontal radiator to a vertical one so it was less hassle to move and we didn't lose as much wall space.

@Gemma2019

How much was the fire door + frame?

I got them from Screwfix - the oak door was £140 and the frame £99.

@Gemma2019

Thanks, that's good to know that it may be possible at a cost of £1,000. I have a builder comong tomorrow morning to quote, anything specific do you think i need to ask?

Ask about building reg anything like this is a major alteration breach fire protection would cause an issue if you tried to sell if not done and signed off properly .

@rwalker

Thank you i will; i have read some articles on the aspects needed to satisfy the fire safety aspect (type of door/ frame/ door furniture etc.), so i will check these with him and whether he would liase with building control to inspect/ sign off the door (and lintel if required, skmething i read said this structual addition would need signing off).