Need advice on next steps

donna877

I live in a 3 bed semi, with a carport attached. The carport is not attached to any house other than mine, and there's a gap between it and the next building (stand alone garages). It is a single garage size and can fit a car in, just, it is a step down from the house with a slabbed floor, fencing for walls and a corrugated plastic roof. When I bought the house, the survey said it was at the end of its use and should be replaced.

I can think of 2 options

1. Convert this into part of the house, ie. a single storey extension. My idea would be to remove the kitchen wall (outside wall) and basically widen the house that way. This would make the kitchen and dining rooms bigger.
2. Convert into a garage

I'm a widowed female so I'm asking here for rough ideas so I'm not ripped off... what is a reasonable price?

SHAFT

Removing the outside wall is a big job.

TELLIT01

Previous questions along the same line have given a figure of £1500 to £2000 per square metre as a base price for construction of the building. Then you have the fit out costs, plus structural work for things like knocking through from the existing house.
Conversion to garage would be much cheaper as it would only need to be a single brick construction and may be able to use the existing car port base.

aliby21

If you can only just fit a car into the existing car port, would you be able to fit one into a garage built to replace it? If you built an extension where would you park your car?

Do you want to do something with the car port? Just because the purchase survey said it "should" be done doesn't mean you have to, lots of stories on here of surveys saying work would need doing immediately and whatever it was needing work has been find many years later.

Another option is to remove the car port and just have the space for car parking.