Cost of Building a Single Garage?

Gloomendoom

You need to watch the overall height with a pitched roof or you can end up needing planning permission.

Leodogger

Furts wrote: »

Only you know the space available so I can only offer suggestions. To future proof the garage and give more practicality attic trusses could be used. These will cost perhaps £20 more for each truss, but they will take a floor and create above garage storage for all sorts. With your narrow width the headroom will be too small for us humans!

Obviously there is no storage facility with flat roofs and they are a constant source of concern for durability, leaks, and repairs.

Garages are not built very often today partly because people do not use them to put the car away at night. This could be deemed laziness, or not being neighbourly, but it is also a reflection on cars being better paint protected and rust proofed than they were around 25 years ago.

Actually the main reason we want a garage built is not so much to store the car as to provide storage for our bungalow which is not very big and lacks floor level storage. We have been using the loft but now the old man is getting on (he he), he can't keep going up there to bring stuff down so we thought we would kill two birds with one stone by providing a large storage area plus when it eventually gets sold (which probably won't be in our lifetime) it will add some value to the property for our kids. We have never used our garages in the past to put our car in like most people, plus we have room on our drive and side entrance to park 3 cars without the garage. So storage is our main idea for undertaking the project.

vansboy

I agree with the 'build bigger and higher' comments - I would like a garage large enough to allow the car to get in, without potential damage AND be able to open it's doors, once parked!

But as you don't NEED a garage, how about a big shed, instead...maybe save a few £$£$

VB

Leodogger

vansboy wrote: »

I agree with the 'build bigger and higher' comments - I would like a garage large enough to allow the car to get in, without potential damage AND be able to open it's doors, once parked!

But as you don't NEED a garage, how about a big shed, instead...maybe save a few £$£$

VB

We actually already have a biggish shed which is sited where we want the garage to go. It is 8ft x 6ft but we are wanting to store some furniture and the shed isn't big enough. Storage costs these days are huge so a lot of money can be saved in building your own storage. It's a bonus that it can double up as a garage though ! The shed will be resited at the bottom of the garden and that is used partly as a workshop and partly for storage of garden tools and mower etc.

We just want a not too expensive construction for the garage as we are pensioners and not overloaded with savings

Rain_Shadow

JWhite wrote: »

Actually the main reason we want a garage built is not so much to store the car as to provide storage for our bungalow which is not very big and lacks floor level storage. .

Well that's a new one.

Leodogger

Rain_Shadow wrote: »

Well that's a new one.

Have you ever looked at the cost of storage ? We want to store some furniture and it was going to cost us £100 per month !!

There you go, if you have a garage you are not using, rent the space out for storage to someone. As long as your insurance covers garden contents you are set to make £1200 income per yr just off storage.

Rain_Shadow

JWhite wrote: »

Have you ever looked at the cost of storage ? We want to store some furniture and it was going to cost us £100 per month !!

There you go, if you have a garage you are not using, rent the space out for storage to someone. As long as your insurance covers garden contents you are set to make £1200 income per yr just off storage.

Lolol, you missed my point.:cool:

Leodogger

Rain_Shadow wrote: »

Lolol, you missed my point.:cool:

Which was ?

Rain_Shadow

sigh


"the main reason we want a garage built is ... to provide storage for our bungalow "


That must be a very small bungalow to fit in a garage.


It's a joke.


Never mind.

SailorSam

You'll probably find it's a lot cheaper to buy a precast garrage than build one yourself. My garage is 20'x25' with a pitched roof and when we were getting it built the cost was just like Pinnoccios nose, it just kept growing and growing.