converting garage

clutton_2

stair lifts are notoriously difficult to sell on - you need to sell to a house with a staircase with exactly the same number of treads, same tread height etc etc - they are also a beggar to get out !!!

UK007BullDog

Stairlifts break down and the cost to get them fixed and the headaches and then you lose space if it has to go round corners. My moms got one of them. Does she use it much? No, only if she is in real deep pain. Otherwise she says its quicker to just pull herself up the stairs. Also once she got stuck, but thankfully the neighbors heard her cries for help.

If the conversion is done in a good professional way and then decorated well most people will not even know it was a garage. My visitors dont know until I point it out to them. Access is via the hallway so no hidden type of access or having to go through other rooms to get to it.

Like I said it depends on the persons needs and requirements.
But in our area they get snapped up just as quickly as "non-converted" houses. Maybe it depends on the marketing of the EA's. The fact is that most people do not use the garage for their cars but have them parked on their drives because the garages are full with stuff.

Our conversion was done professionally but without any building regs, but because it was done in the mid eighties we got a letter stating it is OK to keep it like that when we bought the house. My neighbor converted his 10 years ago but just now applied for permission. He has 5 kids so needed the space desperately.

Like a poster said above, convert if you want to YOUR needs, not because it might or might not up the price.