Advice needed re: Downstairs 4th Bedroom extension!!

Doozergirl

You need to invest in some proper professional advice.

You cannot do this alone.

Fair enough if you cannot afford a double storey extension, but you need to look at the price of your house per square foot and really consider how valuable garage storage is and if it is really worth bodging an extension on to the back to keep what you have.

Without even seeing your house I know that there would be a better way, regardless of budget.

If a garage is genuinely required for storage, then why still essential to be at the front of your house? Fancy shed at the back of the garden?

The existing garage could be converted and extended and have some relevance to the house layout.

You mist have proper design input into this.

martinsurrey

Doozergirl wrote: »

You mist have proper design input into this.

I agree,

I usually hate the thought of people getting architects for simple extensions (a cheaper draftsman/structural engineer would be able to do it much cheaper).

But in cases like this, where there are real compromises and difficult design decisions, it would be worth the cost.

but OP, your current plan sounds unworkable for both building regs and just cost/value

Kate0408

Thanks for your advice. We will certainly get some professional input on this one! Our budget is £60k so hoping we can do something for this price. The garage store is needed for bikes and lawnmower, etc.

We don't have side or back access so saves the hassle of constant to-ing and fro-ing through our house - but perhaps I can persuade my husband to find a new home for it all and do the garage conversion instead.

System

It sounds like a reasonable budget, but it may come down to looking at whether you are going to get that money back with a seriously compromised alteration, or whether it would be more sensible to wait and do the most cost effective alterations when you can afford to...
You really do need someone to come around and have a look to work out all the constraints to be able to come up with anything like a useful solution - it make be that you could reconfigure the rest of the floor plan to get what you want (in a workable way)
Normally I find that most clients think they need more space, when all they actually need is better, more useful space

Hoploz

60k is a pretty healthy budget.

Is there a possibility you could build on top of the existing garage? Or even reinforce/rebuild the car port with a second storey? It would need reinforcing but ultimately if you wanted a two storey extension for an upstairs bedroom then this would be it. ??