Building a double garage cost

tiggerkid

Hi everyone,

If anyone has any experience with building a detached double garage or having one built, would you be able to give an estimated range of what it might cost to do that please? We are in Buckinghamshire.
Thanks a lot.

AdrianC

What are you after? Flat-pack timber? Made-to-measure oak frame? Brick or block?

At the very cheapest, a good quality flat-pack timber double can be as little as about five grand delivered and assembled, plus the groundwork & slab.

Brick or block will be a lot more expensive, and I don't even want to consider what some of the utterly lovely oak garageporn would cost...

tiggerkid

AdrianC wrote: »

What are you after? Flat-pack timber? Made-to-measure oak frame? Brick or block?

We are after a fairly standard detached brick garage. Sorry, should have mentioned this to start with. Thanks.

PaulCooper

£10k brick, block, concrete slab & footings. I'm sure if you get a builder to quote they are going to come in at >£15k, but you should be able to do it for £10k if you're smart
Paul

tiggerkid

PaulCooper wrote: »

£10k brick, block, concrete slab & footings. I'm sure if you get a builder to quote they are going to come in at >£15k, but you should be able to do it for £10k if you're smart
Paul

We aren't planning to build it ourselves. My husband is hopeless at DIY Thank you

RAS

Whilst you are about it think

1. Water and power; useful for the basics of cleaning cars, sneaking in an extra freezer.

2. If you raise the wall height 30 cms and extend the length by a metre, you could get a usable room in the eaves; storage, office, playroom etc.

AdrianC

RAS wrote: »

2. If you raise the wall height 30 cms

...you'd take it outside of permitted development, if you'd otherwise be in it - the difference between requiring planning permission and not.

poppysarah

Find a nice local builder.
Ours cost about 9k I think - brick built, double garage. Did need building inspector to look at it through for foundations and maybe even roof. Can't remember now.
A lot of money but it has power sockets, lights and is really solid and looks good.
The electric door was an essential as far as my OH was concerned. And it had to be double size so he had room for a pool table.

jamesperrett

Had a rendered blockwork double garage sized studio built around 3 years ago which cost about £13k (inc VAT) for the outer shell.

tiggerkid

Thanks, everyone