Rent a Room - Garage Conversion

davidmcn

letsbetfair said:

You mention 40sq m - I was in a slightly smaller serviced apartment the other week...lovely conversion of an old building to a high standard, great place for a short break, but no way I'd want to live there!

To be fair, that's larger than the minimum size for a "proper" fully self-contained studio flat, so I don't think the size is the problem, it's what facilities (aren't) put in it. 

Grumpy_chap

In the current climate, do you really want to share your nice new gym equipment with a stranger who may not sanitise it properly?

Will a 'lodger' be happy cooking their dinner with you working out, huffing and puffing and sweating on the other side of the room?

Emmia

I think if it were me renting this, and going into the main house is in reality a no-no, I'd want the whole of this building - so the space occupied by the gym for my sole use too.

Ditzy_Mitzy

itssmallstuff said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

itssmallstuff said:

itssmallstuff said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

I'll say what everyone else seems to be thinking: this is an utterly horrid idea, bordering on the morally reprehensible.  A single garage, because the two buildings are separate, is a single garage.  It was put up to shelter the householder's Ford Consul, or whatever sort of medium sized car is appropriate to the era of construction, from the elements.  It is not a house.  It never will be a house.  If you haven't got a Ford Consul then by all means put a lawnmower and chest freezer in there but, for God's sake, not some poor !!!!!! with a middling job.  Where's the kitchen?  Where's the bathroom?  Where's the insulation and the windows and the poor prospective occupant's dignity?  I've got a garage too, lucky me, it's full of old tins of paint and spiders.  One day I might clear it out and buy myself a Ford Consul with faux leopard-skin seat covers to put in it.  I won't, ever, think: 'You know what I could do?  Get a poor person to pay me handsomely to live in here!'.  What about the dead of winter, when you're sitting indoors with the central heating blasting and poor boy/girl is sitting in your garage shivering with nothing but a £30 Argos oil radiator to keep warm by.  Would you let him or her in if asked nicely enough?
You know; I let a maisonette, a whole one with different rooms and everything, for what you're proposing to let a wooden framed garage out for.  These are people, we're talking about, real people with hopes and fears and imaginations and, if you like, souls.  People made of the same stuff as you and I, only with less money.  They aren't livestock and they certainly aren't cars.  They deserve better.

Sorry, but you misunderstood. The conversion will be done in line with building regulations. It would be furnished no less than my own home. Heating, hot water, bed ... These are basic necessities and will be made available. I'll be doing more than that - TV, washing machine, WiFi, parking, garden, milk/cereals, regular cleaning, safety checks...

I'm not planning to put a bed in garage, but convert the garages to the level of habitable accomodation.

Not sure if I mentioned, the room will be an ensuite with a full size bath!

Your garage is starting to sound less like a garage and more like the TARDIS.  It's only, what, 17' by 8', isn't it.  

Total area covered by garages = 40 meter square (450sq ft)

Thank you - is the 450 sq ft the total footprint of the buildings?  

itssmallstuff

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

itssmallstuff said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

itssmallstuff said:

itssmallstuff said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

I'll say what everyone else seems to be thinking: this is an utterly horrid idea, bordering on the morally reprehensible.  A single garage, because the two buildings are separate, is a single garage.  It was put up to shelter the householder's Ford Consul, or whatever sort of medium sized car is appropriate to the era of construction, from the elements.  It is not a house.  It never will be a house.  If you haven't got a Ford Consul then by all means put a lawnmower and chest freezer in there but, for God's sake, not some poor !!!!!! with a middling job.  Where's the kitchen?  Where's the bathroom?  Where's the insulation and the windows and the poor prospective occupant's dignity?  I've got a garage too, lucky me, it's full of old tins of paint and spiders.  One day I might clear it out and buy myself a Ford Consul with faux leopard-skin seat covers to put in it.  I won't, ever, think: 'You know what I could do?  Get a poor person to pay me handsomely to live in here!'.  What about the dead of winter, when you're sitting indoors with the central heating blasting and poor boy/girl is sitting in your garage shivering with nothing but a £30 Argos oil radiator to keep warm by.  Would you let him or her in if asked nicely enough?
You know; I let a maisonette, a whole one with different rooms and everything, for what you're proposing to let a wooden framed garage out for.  These are people, we're talking about, real people with hopes and fears and imaginations and, if you like, souls.  People made of the same stuff as you and I, only with less money.  They aren't livestock and they certainly aren't cars.  They deserve better.

Sorry, but you misunderstood. The conversion will be done in line with building regulations. It would be furnished no less than my own home. Heating, hot water, bed ... These are basic necessities and will be made available. I'll be doing more than that - TV, washing machine, WiFi, parking, garden, milk/cereals, regular cleaning, safety checks...

I'm not planning to put a bed in garage, but convert the garages to the level of habitable accomodation.

Not sure if I mentioned, the room will be an ensuite with a full size bath!

Your garage is starting to sound less like a garage and more like the TARDIS.  It's only, what, 17' by 8', isn't it.  

Total area covered by garages = 40 meter square (450sq ft)

Thank you - is the 450 sq ft the total footprint of the buildings?  

total area covered by garages alone (excluding the main property) is 450 sq ft.

Ditzy_Mitzy

itssmallstuff said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

itssmallstuff said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

itssmallstuff said:

itssmallstuff said:

Ditzy_Mitzy said:

I'll say what everyone else seems to be thinking: this is an utterly horrid idea, bordering on the morally reprehensible.  A single garage, because the two buildings are separate, is a single garage.  It was put up to shelter the householder's Ford Consul, or whatever sort of medium sized car is appropriate to the era of construction, from the elements.  It is not a house.  It never will be a house.  If you haven't got a Ford Consul then by all means put a lawnmower and chest freezer in there but, for God's sake, not some poor !!!!!! with a middling job.  Where's the kitchen?  Where's the bathroom?  Where's the insulation and the windows and the poor prospective occupant's dignity?  I've got a garage too, lucky me, it's full of old tins of paint and spiders.  One day I might clear it out and buy myself a Ford Consul with faux leopard-skin seat covers to put in it.  I won't, ever, think: 'You know what I could do?  Get a poor person to pay me handsomely to live in here!'.  What about the dead of winter, when you're sitting indoors with the central heating blasting and poor boy/girl is sitting in your garage shivering with nothing but a £30 Argos oil radiator to keep warm by.  Would you let him or her in if asked nicely enough?
You know; I let a maisonette, a whole one with different rooms and everything, for what you're proposing to let a wooden framed garage out for.  These are people, we're talking about, real people with hopes and fears and imaginations and, if you like, souls.  People made of the same stuff as you and I, only with less money.  They aren't livestock and they certainly aren't cars.  They deserve better.

Sorry, but you misunderstood. The conversion will be done in line with building regulations. It would be furnished no less than my own home. Heating, hot water, bed ... These are basic necessities and will be made available. I'll be doing more than that - TV, washing machine, WiFi, parking, garden, milk/cereals, regular cleaning, safety checks...

I'm not planning to put a bed in garage, but convert the garages to the level of habitable accomodation.

Not sure if I mentioned, the room will be an ensuite with a full size bath!

Your garage is starting to sound less like a garage and more like the TARDIS.  It's only, what, 17' by 8', isn't it.  

Total area covered by garages = 40 meter square (450sq ft)

Thank you - is the 450 sq ft the total footprint of the buildings?  

total area covered by garages alone (excluding the main property) is 450 sq ft.

The 450 sq ft, then, is the area of the ground the buildings sit on.  The internal area is going to be far smaller and smaller still once you've put in insulation and internal walls.