Converting a garage - is it worth it? (merged threads)

Becles

Have you thought about building on top of the garage?

Mine was a 3 bed with attached garage, but the previous people built on top of the garage to make an extra bedroom with en-suite bathroom. I've no idea of the costs for doing that though - just thought I'd suggest it!

Gambler

squirrelz wrote:

If you have room for a large sturdy shed, you may recapture the potential buyers that just need a storage area, but anyone who wants to put their car in the garage will go elsewhere.

When we bought our 3 bed detached I was looking for a garage to previous incidents of damage to my car and one being stolen.

I don't know anybody else on our estate who uses their garage for their car apart from me !!!

Noticed the other day a neighbour has had a very nice garage conversion done.

Our 3rd bedroom is my office with all the gizmos and gadgets you can ythink of. I also found out the other day I will be losing this space to a pending arrival !!

Seriously considering coverting the garage now to a study.

mekondelta

We can't get a car into our garage! It's a 3-bed semi from the mid-30s. It'll fit an old mini just but my MX5 will in no way fit. It's worse than useless as a garage and we can still fit 2 cars on the drive. Surely a conversion would increase the value in this situation?

We're probably going to convert part of it into a room with a conservatory to the garden behind it.

funky-footprints

the only person i know who uses thier garage is my mother in law. she says it is handy for when it is raining, you dont get wet getting grocery out of car etc, but I cant help but notice all the bumps and scratches on her car, from her awful reversing. convert it I'd say, money permitting !

ooo000ooo

My missus has decreed that she wants to nick half my double garage to convert to a playroom. It's attached to the side of the house so she wants to open a doorway from our hall to give her access, brick up the corresponding garage door and put a window in in place of it. Do we need planning permission to do it or just the ok from a building regs type bloke from the council? One of her mates was visiting yesterday, her husband is a trainee surveyor or architect or similar and she's offered his services for about £400-500 to draw up and submit plans.

Roman_Camel

Whilst walking past a house the other day I notice an opened garage door but the garage only stepped back about 6 feet,enough room for the wheelie bin and a couple of bikes.I don't know whether the owner require pp to basically 'brick up his garage'.From the outside with the door lowered it would seem to be a straight forward garage but the owner by 'bricking it up' has obviously created another room.

Is this legal? and if so would he have required pp?

If he didn't require pp it would seem to be quite a clever way of creating an extra room.

YorkshireBoy

Roman_Camel wrote:

Whilst walking past a house the other day I notice an opened garage door but the garage only stepped back about 6 feet,enough room for the wheelie bin and a couple of bikes.I don't know whether the owner require pp to basically 'brick up his garage'.From the outside with the door lowered it would seem to be a straight forward garage but the owner by 'bricking it up' has obviously created another room.

Is this legal? and if so would he have required pp?

Have you read my post #9 in this thread?

Roman_Camel

YorkshireBoy wrote:

Have you read my post #9 in this thread?

Yes,so its quite legal and obviously quite a clever idea.

Thanks.

YorkshireBoy

Roman_Camel wrote:

...obviously quite a clever idea.

I think so! By the way, you could have been describing my "garage", but mine's only 5' deep (although there's a 13' bedroom/study behind the breeze wall).

misfire

We got gazumped on a house with a converted garage - it was fantastic! there was just about enough space to put a car off road outside the house. The advantage of the converted garage for us was that it was (a) massive! (b) could have been a spare room with ensuite for when my brother (who is blind) or my elderley parents came down. TO ME a converted garage would be a dream come true BUT

where my parents live in portsmouth garages are a premium. My parents have one they can't fit there car it ... and it is at the end of the garden... they were going to knock it down but they were advised that in that area a garage adds ++++ to the value of your house even though it is small and usless unless you have a tiny car! They left it, tarted it up and now use it for storage!

There are several houses round here where they have built over the garage and they look fab - BUT i know my mate went to buy a house two doors from where she was living with the idea of going over the garage as there are several in the street that have done this and so she assumed a president had been set. THe problem was I know the woman who lived nextdoor to the house for sale and she told me that they (and others) objected to the planning permission for the over garage room and it was turned down (it would have effected the light into there property) and this is why the original couple were selling. So may worth taking into considerations potential neighbours objections if you were going to go with that idea.

I would ask some estate agents in your area - they would truely know what sells and the prices.

MF