If you have a 30s house with awkward garage

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And you've extended, what did you do with the garage? Knock it down? Incorporate it into the extension? I think knocking it down would be the best option but it's such useful storage! Layout pic attached.

What's it made of? Our was concrete panels. Our builder just removed some and made it shorter.

We used to live in a slightly older house (late 1920s) where the garage was slightly further forward than yours and about 8' of it was attached to the house. When the previous owners extended backwards, they converted the garage into a kitchen with the doorway in the attached part, and the existing kitchen became one end of a large, L-shaped living room that extended out to the back along the rest of the garage wall. The extension reached the old outside scullery (or loo, I never learned which it had been), which ran across the back of the garage, and became the utility room.

This was probably only possible because the garage was properly brick-built and had a proper gabled roof.

We knocked ours down - our extension is a wrap around and encroaches on the space where the garage was but we got rid of it very early on and extended 4 years in.

If its concrete sectional like ours was, people may actually buy it. We gave it away for free on gumtree just to save the hassle of disposal but there is demand for them apparently, people were falling over themselves to take it, we went weigh the one who said they'd take it quickly - turned up with a stihl saw and horse box the next day. We did have to pay a company to remove the asbestos roof safely though so just be mindful that may be an issue.

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Do you use the garage for a car? That makes a big difference about what to do

Don't use it for a car, mostly storing pram / bike / lots of garden stuff. It's quite solidly built with a 'lovely' pebble dash on the outside. The survey when we bought the house did say there might be asbestos in the roof due to the age of the house.

Oh and for storage, we bought a shed which sits at the bottom of the garden. Removing the garage widened the garden and made a big difference to the feel of it. I don't think we missed out on the storage, we have more than enough.

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Don't underestimate the advantage of having somewhere leave your stuff!

Knocked it down. It did have an asbestos roof, wasn't wide enough for car (large MPV) so was just full of crap stuff and as a previous pp, we did a large rear extension which covers ground where part of garage was.

We had same layout as you but mirror image, although our garage was set further back. We extended across the back, single-storey and along the side of the house, double-storey and so moved the garage up the drive. Our garage was brick built so we managed to keep the wall which borders with our neighbours and laid a new patio over the old concrete garage base.

We demolished a shed (couldn't really call it a garage) and when we extended we brought the front of the new garage level with the front porch and filled the back half of the side return with the kitchen extension. We have a door from kitchen into the garage which is really useful.