Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Property/DIY

Join our Property forum for renovation, DIY, and house selling advice.

Cost/experiences of converting a garage

5 replies

Heepers · 19/10/2021 13:45

We want to convert our garage into a home office. The garage is situated at the end of the garden and is not attached to the house. It looks fairly solid structurally but hadn't got any electricity etc. I know that it's a bit of a how long is a piece of string question but has anybody got experience of this? And roughly how much should we budgeting?

We are in London.

OP posts:
Fordian · 19/10/2021 13:57

Hampshire 5 years ago; integral single garage- (fire) wall installed as we retained the up and over door and a very short 'garage'; one window; insulated and plaster boarded walls; Floor levelled a bit, 10cm of Celotex; floorboard and carpet; painted, £8000.

BlueMongoose · 19/10/2021 23:05

You might need PP, almost certainly will need building regs approval. New foundations are needed for a brick fill-in wall, usually, I gather.

We got a quote for putting a new electricity supply in to our garage at the far end of our (long) garden. Over a grand just for that. Not rewiring it, that's been done. Just a new supply (the current one is a bit under powered as we want to heat a greenhouse from it).

Fordian · 26/10/2021 22:29

We didn't need PP at all. The new wall needed to be fireproof as it separated what remained of 'the garage' from the new room. Builder knew that

ilovesouthlondon · 27/10/2021 04:32

Bump

Magilix · 27/10/2021 04:40

We had a quote a few months ago to convert our detached single garage into a home office. It already has an electricity supply. We wanted to keep the existing garage door and build a false wall to have a small amount of storage at the front then put in a side door and window to access the office space. Our quote was just over £13000 which was far higher then we were expecting.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page
Swipe left for the next trending thread