cheapest way to build your own detached garage?

GDB2222

Why a garage - why not a caravan?

Eskimo12345

I'm not sure of the rules on links here so I won't post direct links, but head over to AV forums and studio central (google 'em), you'll find loads of self builds on the forums, a lot of them with pics and info posted every step of the way

Oh, and egg boxes on the wall? No. Again studio central will show you the way for sound deadening, room optimisation etc

harryhound

There is one of these "studios in a garage" in a little side road leading north off Cheyne Walk in Chelsea - doors painted green if I remember.

Did you see "Homes under the Hammer", where a bloke with a Chinese looking partner bought a 50's telephone repeater building in Dover for 10K. I doubt the local council would be bothered to give him a hard time over disturbing the local cattle.
It looks like a brick built large single garage with a pitched double lap tile roof. Its Crittal window has been bricked up to keep out thieves and vandals.

There is an identical repeater station near me that is now home to a family of 4 gypsies.

jago25_98

It's not exactly google trying to find small non-residential properties to buy.
In fact, the whole thing is particularly disjointed.

I'll guess I'll just have to keep looking.

harryhound

Google:

1. Time to ring the changes (From Wiltshire Times)
   
   British Telecom is selling off redundant telephone repeater stations (TRSs), which some buyers are turning into homes and now two in Swindon are to be sold ...
   m6live.wiltshiretimes.co.uk/search/634262.Time_to_ring_the_changes_/ - 25k - Cached - Similar pages
2. [DOC] LONDON BOROUGH OF BROMLEY ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT ...
   
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   The application propose the use of a redundant telephone repeater station and its land for storage of tools and plant equipment. The site is to the south of ...
   sharepoint.bromley.gov.uk/Public%20PDF/PSC3-Planning%20Rprts-0604.pdf - Similar pages

Rictina

I use to be a Quantity Surveyor for new build project. If you are going to pay a building firm to do all the work, then if you base it on £1000.00 per square metre roughly you wont go far wrong. Remember there is not much work out there for the building industry in these difficult times, so they carnt go charging you the earth. Its a buyers market.

Good luck.

Jenny

ILW

If this is being done on a commercial basis, I would rent for a year or two to test if it really is viable. All the unexpected expense and overheads can cripple you.