Estimated cost of extending kitchen into garage?

theonenonly

What's the likely cost of extending the kitchen into the garage? The current kitchen is looking a bit knackered, so will need new fittings anyway, and is definitely small.

Location: East London

Thanks

ic

Tens of thousands probably.  What is upstairs?  Does the house have rooms extending over the garage?  You'll probably need planning to change the use of the garage to habitable rooms, and certainly will require building regs approval.

theonenonly

Nothing above the garage.

Front looks like this;

Section62

theonenonly said:

Nothing above the garage.

Front looks like this;

The garage looks not much more than a lean-to, so likely will need to be demolished to allow a proper extension to be built.  The wall you want to remove is an external one, and you'll be involving the external corner of the house - so this is likely to need some substantial structural work.

In London budget about £150k for something relatively modest.

You might be better off looking at combining the kitchen and existing dining room into one space, and if you wanted to keep a separate room in addition to the lounge then look at doing a rear extension instead.  You'd need a structural engineer to advise on the feasibility of combining the kitchen and dining room as the internal wall may be structural as well.

WIAWSNB

Hi tono.
Not cheap, as said by others. That's an external wall you'd need to open up. And PP and BC to convert.
Where is your current ute? Washing machine? Drier? Freezer?
I think I'd be looking at turning the kitchen and diner into a kitchen-diner. That means taking down the separating internal wall, which should be a straightforward 'small works cert' jobbie. No PP.
Then use the back end of the garage as your ute - get every appliance out of the kitchen that you can.
And use the min £20k saving to have a dream kitchen with cooking bar facing the dining area. 

casper_gutman

Section62 said:

theonenonly said:

Nothing above the garage.

Front looks like this;

The garage looks not much more than a lean-to, so likely will need to be demolished to allow a proper extension to be built.  The wall you want to remove is an external one, and you'll be involving the external corner of the house - so this is likely to need some substantial structural work.

In London budget about £150k for something relatively modest.

You might be better off looking at combining the kitchen and existing dining room into one space, and if you wanted to keep a separate room in addition to the lounge then look at doing a rear extension instead.  You'd need a structural engineer to advise on the feasibility of combining the kitchen and dining room as the internal wall may be structural as well.

This sounds about right to me. We did something similar about 4 years ago, and nearer the opposite end of the M4 from London, and spent about £100k. So, I doubt you could do something similar to a decent standard in London now and expect much change from £150k.

theonenonly

Yikes, for those costs it probably makes sense to just do a rear extension and leave the garage as is

Albermarle

We also did something similar- Knocked down a side garage and built a side extension with a pitched roof . In our case for a bathroom and some extra hallway. A section of the original outside wall was removed ( about 4M x 2.5M ).
It cost about £15/£20K but it was 25 years ago ! .

TELLIT01

Also bear in mind that converting the garage to a kitchen would remove the only access to the rear without going through the house.

Androiduser

The costs of building works is shocking, we asked for quotes for a small (4 m x 1.5m) porch with toilet Porch and was quoted between £20,000 and £35,000.
When we asked about a rear extension about 16 square meters so not very big quotes started at £45,000 upwards...and that was a box, with the finished room probably £7,000 - £10,000 on top.

Albermarle

TELLIT01 said:

Also bear in mind that converting the garage to a kitchen would remove the only access to the rear without going through the house.

When we did ours, the extension was narrower than the garage to leave a narrow passageway down the outside,
However looking at the OPs picture again, our garage was wider than theirs.