Replacing garage door with brick wall and uPVC door

Swipe

booksandbikes said:

Just an update.....it turned out to be a non-starter. Our neighbour across the road started doing it (which prompted the thread), but now that he has finished, I have to say it looks pretty awful. 🤦‍♀️ We are getting a new electric roller door fitted today. 😊

What sort of price were you quoted for an electric roller door? My up and over garage door is looking a bit tired.

RainbowsInTheSpray

I see more and more garages being converted. People simply don't use them for purpose. With modern cars getting ever wider and bulkier (like their owners) people are finding they can't drive into their own garage and then physically get out of the car.

It makes perfect sense when you add in the ever warming winters... thanks, of course, to the ever polluting cars...

Silvertabby

bjorn_toby_wilde said:

booksandbikes said:

Just an update.....it turned out to be a non-starter. Our neighbour across the road started doing it (which prompted the thread), but now that he has finished, I have to say it looks pretty awful. 🤦‍♀️ We are getting a new electric roller door fitted today. 😊

Sounds like a good decision.

I often see garages being converted to extra rooms. Each to his own but I would never buy a house without a garage.  I value the space for my bikes, tools, paint, plumbing bits, recycling and other assorted flotsam.

Not forgetting the most important appliance in the house….the beer fridge!

You'd love Mr S's garage-now-workshop.  Workbench, ample storeage shelves for tools and equipment, beer fridge with a telly on top, etc.  He can potter for hours in there.

We changed our (integral) garage doors for side openers, which are more in keeping with its use as a workshop, and they look great. 

booksandbikes

Eldi_Dos said:

booksandbikes said:

Just an update.....it turned out to be a non-starter. Our neighbour across the road started doing it (which prompted the thread), but now that he has finished, I have to say it looks pretty awful. 🤦‍♀️ We are getting a new electric roller door fitted today. 😊

Out of curiosity does the new door have a letterbox?

I would imagine what you are proposing to do would add more value to your property than the other idea.

No, there is no letterbox. The door is half glass and the remainder of the wall is white cladding. It doesn't look great, imo.

booksandbikes

rob7475 said:

We wanted to use our garage as a home office / gym / storage but it was cold in winter. I left the roller door in place and built a stud wall with a door just inside which allowed me to add insulation and make the garage more usable. From the outside it still looks like a garage and if the council ever decide that what I've done is wrong, I can rip the stud wall down in half an hour :-)

Yes, this is another one of our options......it looks like a lot people have done that, as it is easy enough to take down if you want to use it as a garage again.

booksandbikes

Swipe said:

booksandbikes said:

Just an update.....it turned out to be a non-starter. Our neighbour across the road started doing it (which prompted the thread), but now that he has finished, I have to say it looks pretty awful. 🤦‍♀️ We are getting a new electric roller door fitted today. 😊

What sort of price were you quoted for an electric roller door? My up and over garage door is looking a bit tired.

For a single Seceuroglide Compact, our was £2,195 (inc VAT). 

Albermarle

RainbowsInTheSpray said:

I see more and more garages being converted. People simply don't use them for purpose. With modern cars getting ever wider and bulkier (like their owners) people are finding they can't drive into their own garage and then physically get out of the car.

It makes perfect sense when you add in the ever warming winters... thanks, of course, to the ever polluting cars...

There was another similar thread recently ( or the topic came up within a thread on a related subject).
It seems that many people/potential buyers would be put off a house with no garage, although few would actually put a car in there ( even if it fitted). Modern cars are hardly affected by being left outside, so the preference is to use the garage for bikes, DIY, storage, freezers, tumble driers etc

bjorn_toby_wilde

Silvertabby said:

bjorn_toby_wilde said:

booksandbikes said:

Just an update.....it turned out to be a non-starter. Our neighbour across the road started doing it (which prompted the thread), but now that he has finished, I have to say it looks pretty awful. 🤦‍♀️ We are getting a new electric roller door fitted today. 😊

Sounds like a good decision.

I often see garages being converted to extra rooms. Each to his own but I would never buy a house without a garage.  I value the space for my bikes, tools, paint, plumbing bits, recycling and other assorted flotsam.

Not forgetting the most important appliance in the house….the beer fridge!

You'd love Mr S's garage-now-workshop.  Workbench, ample storeage shelves for tools and equipment, beer fridge with a telly on top, etc.  He can potter for hours in there.

We changed our (integral) garage doors for side openers, which are more in keeping with its use as a workshop, and they look great. 

That does sound great!

I have a radio, but no telly. There’s a thought 👍🏻

molerat

I had the attached garage door replaced with a UPVC unit, 1/3 door and 2/3 panel both top halves obscured glass and bottom "planked" panel. All fitted into the existing frame so a simple task to remove and refit a garage door if ever that became a choice.  Loads of light in the workshop / store.

casper_gutman

The houses in this area are all semis built with the classic 1930s arrangement of a driveway extending between the side of the house and the boundary wall, then a garage at the back. Many of the houses have side extensions which obviously means the garages (if not demolished) are no longer used for a vehicle.

Some extensions go right up to the boundary and have a garage door, but the space inside must be too small for a modern car - the driveway was narrow as it was, and subtracting the width of a storey-height brick wall or pillar reduces it below the usable minimum. We left an access for bins/wheelbarrows etc between the extension and the boundary, so the resulting space doesn't even pretend to be big enough to use as a garage. We still have double doors leading to a store room. It's perfectly wide enough for bikes and storing camping gear, DIY stuff, roof racks etc.

Personally I'd install side-opening double doors. If you use well fitted exterior grade doors the interior should still be a good bit more comfortable than it is with a thin metal garage door.