Converting back to a garage

DeliriousDaisy

We're in the process of buying a house that has had its garage converted into another reception room. It's been done on the cheap and nasty and is unlikely to conform to building regs so I was wondering what sort of figure we'd be looking at to get it converted back to a garage. We don't need another room and would rather just have it as a storage space and workshop. Thanks.

ritesh

Hi,

I have just converted three garages into one large garden office. So from your description it does sound as though no planning or building regs were applied for and hence the council were not notified of the change of use. Therefore converting back to original garage I would have thought the costs would be minor. Probably the case of having to strip and skip a load of internals; back to brick. I would say a few days labour and the cost of a few skips, no more than £500 to £700 as an estimate.

If you can provide more description then may be a better estimate can be given.

Hope that helps

LandyAndy

Any thoughts on how much it will devalue the house?


Maybe it would be better to make the conversion good and still use it for storage.

I_have_spoken

I'm confused..converting back surely means removing window/brick and installing up and over garage door?

Otherwise just keep it as is and use as workshop....

Dan-Dan

agreed , if as simple as sounds , most of it is free = op`s labour , no?

DeliriousDaisy

Thanks for the replies. We're not bothered about replacing the window with a garage door, but are completely clueless as to whether in general it would be something easy or complicated.
Sorry, I should also have said that the floor level is slightly below the level of the house and there does seem to be some damp in there.

cyclonebri1

I think ritesh is confusing the issue, regardless of his last job.

The OP doesn't want to reinstate things, just use the space. But history does have it's place.

I had a similar issue. 7 years ago my youngest bought a 10 year old house. It had been the show house for a new development, the garage had been converted to the showroom.
Sold to the previous tenant 10 years since.

They simply kept it as an office.

10 years on, use established, we lifted the floor (garages are usually set lower), put in proper insulation, and windows instead of the crappy ally patio doors the building Co fitted.

No involvement with the council, and approval from all on the estate as it was the first home on show and had looked scabby previously.

ritesh

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

I think ritesh is confusing the issue, regardless of his last job.

The OP doesn't want to reinstate things, just use the space. But history does have it's place.

I had a similar issue. 7 years ago my youngest bought a 10 year old house. It had been the show house for a new development, the garage had been converted to the showroom.
Sold to the previous tenant 10 years since.

They simply kept it as an office.

10 years on, use established, we lifted the floor (garages are usually set lower), put in proper insulation, and windows instead of the crappy ally patio doors the building Co fitted.

No involvement with the council, and approval from all on the estate as it was the first home on show and had looked scabby previously.

No,not confusing but simply stating that for me to convert garage I had to go through change of use. From reading LP's post it sounds like council planning/building regs not notified. Therefore no need to go through change of use to convert back to garage. Hence avoiding a further cost