Reverse Garage Conversion

bj_of_bristol

Hi I know this may be a long shot and I doubt many people look to reverse a garage conversion. We moved into our new property approximately 12 months ago, love it apart from the garage conversion that we have no need for.

Could anyone provide an estimate of costs involved for such a project, which mainly involves, removing the UPVC window, knocking down the brick work, removing the raised flooring and removing the radiator. Obviously we would be looking to have a secure garage door installed plus one of those trough/drain type things as our drive slopes down to the garage.

Any advice would be most appreciated.

bride_on_a_budget

bj_of_bristol wrote: »

Hi I know this may be a long shot and I doubt many people look to reverse a garage conversion. We moved into our new property approximately 12 months ago, love it apart from the garage conversion that we have no need for.

Could anyone provide an estimate of costs involved for such a project, which mainly involves, removing the UPVC window, knocking down the brick work, removing the raised flooring and removing the radiator. Obviously we would be looking to have a secure garage door installed plus one of those trough/drain type things as our drive slopes down to the garage.

Any advice would be most appreciated.

hi,
we are doing this soon but we are having a small extension to the front as our car would not fit in the original garage, we were told it would cost around £2500 to do the floor(ours in concrete) take out window and fit garage door and remove radiator plus the drain thing .
with the extension it is going to cost around £7k

i hope this helps

bj_of_bristol

Hi bride on a budget

I am pretty sure our floor is concrete as well so hopefully will not have to do anything with that. I have looked at garage doors and they range in price from the low hundreds upwards. As most of the work will be mainly removing the window, knocking down the wall and installing a garage door I am hoping it wont cost too much, hopefully around £3/4k.

bride_on_a_budget

Hi,
our concrete floor is having to be dug out by 150mm when we turn it back to a garage this is so if there are any fuel leakages in the gararge it wont go into the house.
this is what the council and the 3 different builders said to me.
most garage conversions have a stud tyoe floor so if you wanted it turned back you havent got to dig out alot of the concrete

bride

forgot to add my garage door is costing £299 , i just wanted a plain white one

bj_of_bristol

Hi bride on a budget

I have got an itemised quote from when the conversion was done and it includes fitting timber joists and flooring. Also there are 2 concrete steps down into the garage so no chance of fuel leaking into the house. I estimate the raised floor is about 18 inches /2 ft above the concrete floor so fingers crossed everything is OK below.

bride_on_a_budget

bj_of_bristol wrote: »

Hi bride on a budget

I have got an itemised quote from when the conversion was done and it includes fitting timber joists and flooring. Also there are 2 concrete steps down into the garage so no chance of fuel leaking into the house. I estimate the raised floor is about 18 inches /2 ft above the concrete floor so fingers crossed everything is OK below.

good, i think the digging out of the concrete is costing me the most. it would of been alot cheaper if it had the timber joists and floor but mine was converted before i bought the house, i dont know why they did concrete instead of the joists.
hope it goes well for you
bride

Errata

You may find your property will decrease in value if you convert what is now a room back to a garage. Beware of putting yourself into negative equity.

bj_of_bristol

Hi Errata

Good point, however I have always had a garage in the past and do actually use it to put my car in. As for the garage extension it leads off the kitchen extension and was previously a bedroom. A bit strange really although I now use it as a store room. There are only the 2 of us and we already have 3 bedrooms, so a 4th is of no use to us at all. We also plan to live here until I retire in approx 12 years time, so hopefully the negative equity issue will no longer apply then.

mike_the_bike_2

Errata wrote: »

You may find your property will decrease in value if you convert what is now a room back to a garage. Beware of putting yourself into negative equity.

Alternatively you may find it may increase in value!...Where I live where the useless council failed to put restrictive covenants on the properties when they were built a large number have converted their garages to rooms causing absolute car parking chaos around here with nowhere to park for residents or visitors

The plus side is the ones without the garages can't sell them and some are converting them back!!

Good luck

bj_of_bristol

thanks mike

I live in a close and the parking is a nightmare at times.

mattnay

You will also need to ensure that any door connected to the main house is fully fire rated including the frame. I would say that building regs will also need informing of any work. Matt