Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Doozergirl

silvercar wrote: »

In your neck of the woods? Take whatever number doozer comes up with and then triple it for post code pricing!

You could post on the diy board, some people there good at estimating.

Do you need planning permission to convert garage door to solid wall?

I'd say £15k minimum with an ensuite in my part of the world. More if drainage has to be altered and more if special bricks, windows etc. Hopefully building control will allow the wall to be built off an RSJ and not want expensive footings.

I have converted a garage in a listed building where I came up with the idea to copy the old timber doors, keeping the windows in there. New wall is built up behind with a cill so it meets relatively modren regs with exception of the single glazing -which is compatible with the listing anyway. It does need another window for escape but that was on the side in this case. Looks completely perfect from the outside.

Doozergirl

chris_m wrote: »

If you were told that it would not be permitted development, why do you now think that it might be?

I believe that some councils (if not more than some) are not keen on garage conversions - due to some roads having most of them done and now being clogged up with parked cars because the off-street parking has been turned into living accommodation.

That's exactly what it is. Many planning authorities count the garage as one of the required parking spaces for a home. Reality is usually different but michaels is one of the few people who actually conform to that idea and park their cars in their garage!

Doozergirl

Pyxis wrote: »

That reminds me of aeons ago, in the early days of Brookside on the TV, when the 'rogue' family of the Close decided to 'illegally' convert their garage to a bedroom. In order for it not to be noticed by the powers that be, they kept the roll-up door, and built a wall just inside of it! :rotfl:
It made me wonder how many copy-cat conversions there were after that! :rotfl:

Planning laws are different now, I think.

People do that an awful lot. They do it to be cheap and avoid building control. I didn't know that was where many people got the idea from!!

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

I nearly wrote you seem comfortable in your own skin.

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(Oops! Too early! Not full moon yet!:D)

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

If you were told that it would not be permitted development, why do you now think that it might be?

I believe that some councils (if not more than some) are not keen on garage conversions - due to some roads having most of them done and now being clogged up with parked cars because the off-street parking has been turned into living accommodation.

It might also be the case in some areas that you are allowed to increase the external area by a certain number of square metres, without needing planning, but if you then later want to increase again, you'd automatically need planning permission. Or something.

Doozergirl wrote: »

That's exactly what it is. Many planning authorities count the garage as one of the required parking spaces for a home. Reality is usually different but michaels is one of the few people who actually conform to that idea and park their cars in their garage!

Oh gosh, him and me! When I was working, the place where I had my business and stayed during the week had a garage, and I'd always keep my car in it. In winter it was fantastic not having to scrape ice off it, and have dry windows if it had been raining.

There was a little bit of space for storage, but not much. The car took priority. I'm sure that helped to keep it going as long as it did - 16 years, and then I gave it to Nacro for them to use to rehabilitate delinquents.

I really miss that garage. I have nowhere to put one here, so the car is in the front garden fully in the line of the prevailing wind and gets the full brunt of the weather.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

... full brunt of the weather.

It's a double brunt right now! I'd watched the weather/news and thought "Ah, looks like I get off light!" ... already been out in the garden as something was flying around!

There's also been several times when the sound out there's just weird/ferocious.

Weather people right now on the telly are saying tomorrow will be fine .... but then on Xmas Day the next storm will trundle along!

Glad I'm not having to "travel there and back" anywhere this year.

In other news .... I "bought early to beat the rush" 12 packs of crisps .... it's not even Xmas yet and I'm down to four packets remaining

michaels

chris_m wrote: »

If you were told that it would not be permitted development, why do you now think that it might be?

I believe that some councils (if not more than some) are not keen on garage conversions - due to some roads having most of them done and now being clogged up with parked cars because the off-street parking has been turned into living accommodation.

I didn't explain very well - they specifiically removed the permitted development right as othrwise we would have had it by default.

Doozergirl wrote: »

I'd say £15k minimum with an ensuite in my part of the world. More if drainage has to be altered and more if special bricks, windows etc. Hopefully building control will allow the wall to be built off an RSJ and not want expensive footings.

I have converted a garage in a listed building where I came up with the idea to copy the old timber doors, keeping the windows in there. New wall is built up behind with a cill so it meets relatively modren regs with exception of the single glazing -which is compatible with the listing anyway. It does need another window for escape but that was on the side in this case. Looks completely perfect from the outside.

They put normal footings in on all walls of our garage incuding the single skin one story one and the bit under the garage door lintel.

We do keep the car in the garage and then feel a bit guilty driving past the neighbours as they scrape the windowscreen. I think our car also has some sort of auto pre heat via the phone app but we don't need to use it so not sure. We did design the house with a double width garage so we can keep as much junk in it as everyone else and still fit in the car.

We buy the aldi triffle for 99p, it is fine (i seem to remember before I stopped eating gluten). We share it between 5 (4 now).

Doozergirl

I only bought our treats on Wednesday and they've mostly been wolfed. Will have to pop to the local co-op for orange matchmakers - a Christmas necessity and I didn't get even one from the first pack.

I'm going to get out my Aldi pretzel thingy selection box now

I do not buy treats for the house usually, as this happens!

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

We buy the aldi trifle for 99p, it is fine (i seem to remember before I stopped eating gluten). We share it between 5 (4 now).

I've not held one in my hands - as I knew I wasn't buying the day I first spotted it (and the twice I've clocked it since) as it's on the top shelf, so I'd only clamber up the shelving that high if I were sure I were buying ... but it didn't look "that big".

It's certainly larger than "for 1" and generous for 2, but nowhere near as big as others.

Aldi don't have many of their products on their website or on mysupermarket, which is annoying. I just checked both for the trifle, not there.

It's so disappointing not being able to compare actual size/weights precisely.

ivyleaf

Lovely to have you back Doozergirl :j

We've been away for a few days visiting family. It was fun, but it's good to be home, though sorry to find that our beloved very elderly neighbour had been taken into hospital after having 2 falls in 3 days. Apparently he's now had a pacemaker fitted and should really have been able to come home 24 hours later, but he wasn't well enough today, and his DD says she can't imagine them letting him home tomorrow either. Really hope he'll be ok; his eldest daughter died a couple of months ago, and his wife and other daughters must be so afraid they're going to lose him as well


On a more cheerful note, DB and DSIL gave our niece an Alexa for Christmas, and they got it set up while we were there. DSIL asked "Alexa, who is my favourite son-in-law?"

Alexa's reply was "I don't know - but I'm sure you have very good taste."