Cost of building a garage

[chris-red]

The missus and I are looking to buy a house my one stipulation was that it has a decent garage, so she tells me she has seen a place and loves it, guess how big the garage is...

So any idea how much it would cost for a reasonable brick built garage? Also if I would need any kind of planning permission?
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[Robby]

Never let women get involved in picking somewhere to live. They care about unimportant things like the colour of the walls and general appearances.

[doggone]

Need more info - attached to house or free standing?
If attached to the house it really wants doing to 'house' standards with full insulation.
You could easily spend £20,000 or more to make a good job, but it will increase the value of the house by a similar amount
Something basic more like £5,000 - going too cheap could have a negative impact on the property value

[dabigginger]

^This.

Whilst I can't tell you how much it will cost, the difference between a good garage and a crap one is definitely noticeable.

My previous house had a concrete prefab garage with an asbestos roof. It was draughty, plants came through the gaps in the corrugated asbestos sheet and it had terrible condensation. By comparison, my current house had a garage built attached to the house. The difference is amazing. Once the heating is going in there, it's nice and warm, lovely and dry, no condensation problems and the appeal of having a door from your house to your garage is definitely worth it

[MCN]

My Concrete Panel jobby cost me £4500 to pour and erect.
Cement Sheet roof and up and over door.

I got my garage from these folk. Very smooth transaction.

https://www.nucrete.co.uk/products/elite-concrete-garages/?phpMyAdmin=6mKzvSPmbJoxFKht%2C9UiYr7hL51

I had to pour the base £500 concrete and shuttering inc. wheel barra, shovel, spade, rake, wellies.

I have just dry-walled the hoowur using Gyproc with 15mm polystyrene insulation on the back.

My lights were 4 x 4' flour. strips. I upgraded the lights with the drywall to some LED and posh light and power fitting. about £120

I poured a cementeous self leveler on last year to correct the imperfect floor (so my bike turner would move easier.) Material cost £330

The panels are roughcast and the fascia matches my house facing.

There was no option for a tile roof at the time but a tile roof is more substantial and prettier.
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[arry]

Proper job on a block built double garage with rubberised flat roofing system and high quality roller shutter across the whole entrance, removing the old pre-fab concrete garage / asbestos sheeting, extending the base etc - £18k approximately.

I have to say that is with everything being quality fittings - very solid roof timbers, top notch roller, wood double glazed window and glazed exit door with 5LMD, all walls rendered and painted, floor painted, strip lights fitted, loads of electrical sockets etc - so it's expensive for a reason. We did have a quote of circa £5k less with a builder we didn't trust, so didn't proceed with. You could do it a whole lot cheaper with cheaper quality bits and less finesse in the overall appearance.

[grr666]

A large decent quality shed would do as well and cost a fraction. Mines in my back garden. 8 x 12 ft at the
apex about 8ft tall inside. It came in 7 large pieces and the two lads that delivered it had it put up, glazed
and felted in an hour and a half. I already had a large raised concrete pad and bought the largest shed I
could fit on it. Mine was 600 quid delivered and fitted.

Just given it a coat of Ronseal fencelife and it looks better now 18 months after purchase than it did new.
The rain water just runs off of it. but I will still be adding some guttering after I return from my hols
just to help keep the sides dryer this year through winter and channel the water somewhere it can drain away
without causing harm, I'm also going to build some steps up into the shed, I have some spare slabs and
bricks etc so it shouldn't cost much. I've already added external floodlighting, and a structurally built
in bench and lots of storage, plus flourescent lighting, heating (an old warm air curtain from a shop I refitted
years ago), plus I've upgraded the supplied 4mm float to 7mm wire reinforced cast georgian glass and beefed
up the frames a bit on the inside. I love pimping my shed. I'm always doing stuff to it. Still on the cards is
insulation, ply lining it, and installing proper hard wired electrics. But so far my total spend is under £800.
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[Pete.]

If you need any timber joists, I'll have a huge big pile of fully seasoned ones in a few weeks.
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[chickenstrip]

[doggone]

If you have someone in to do it it will be most of £1000 for a couple of days including materials
Here a mini-mix wagon with 2 cubic metres is about £200
That might just about be enough for a small base.
A bit of hardcore and damp membrane underneath is peanuts really, and a sheet of re-enforced mesh would be advisable and you could use a bit less concrete.

Depends what you find when you start digging really.
There is usually something unexpected.

[chickenstrip]

[stevo as b4]

+1 for pimping sheds being fun! But you show me your's and I'll show you mine. It's a 14x8, but I made the mistake of having a std height roof, so 5ft at back and 6ft at the front. It's going to be fun re-building a KMX200 permanently stooping down, but I'll make do now.

[smegballs]

Me and my dad have built quite a few shed on our land now from scratch. It's not too difficult really, takes a while when you have a perfectionist old man though who insists everything has to be square withing 2-3mm over a 6000mm dimension.....

A good shed made with strong tannelised timber should last years. The shed my dad built in the mid-80s is still solid as a rock, despite being totally neglected and the door left open for 15 years. We put a new fibre roof on a few years ago and that is all it has had in 30 years.

My dad did massively over-engineer it though and build the frame out of 3x4s.

"Bought" sheds are immensely shit I find though. We build ours to a pretty good spec, with meaty timber frames, good quality shiplap and an abundance of damp-proof membrane.

I assume you'd be getting one built rather than building it yourself though? We've had a fair bit of practice, and my grandad was a builder so my dad did a bit as a kid, but apart from that neither of us have any sort of proper training, its not that hard tbh.

[panrider_uk]

[chris-red]

Right went to see the house and it is lovely, I told her to put an offer in. to me it is £25k+ undervalued. Put it this way my missus 1 bed maisonette on the same estate sold for more than double this and it is a 4 & 1/2 bed, that has just had all the insides redone.

Now I need to see about a Garage, there is room although the garden is a shitty shape for it.

I've budgeted £12k to get something decent and a driveway done.

Thanks for the offer Pete, trouble is I think we would be looking at the new year for this as it's only half likely we'll be in by xmas, if they are still around by then then yeah.

I have a mate who is an architect so he could plan it. I just wondered how feasible it is for someone with little building experience to put up a brick/block built structure.
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[Rogerborg]

[chris-red]

Offer accepted, fucking hell I just bought a house...
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[grr666]

I do it all the time, you quickly tire of it. Congrats anyway!!
But remember, it's not yours or indeed bought until exchange and completion. Many hurdles between
getting there and where you are now and by far this is the worst part of buying a place. My advice, don't
get attached until it's a done deal, signed and sealed. I've had property deals go tits up with less than a
week to go until exchange, chase everybody involved often, prefeably daily. Squeaky wheel gets the grease and all that.

Back to the garage.
Tried a Bricky?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BRICKY-PRO-PROFESSIONAL-WALL-BUILDING-MORTAR-APPLICATION-TOOL-KIT-WITH-DVD/141357367164?_trksid=p2141725.c100338.m3726&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20150313114020%26meid%3D9311c0ad09394e1e8b39718e832837f3%26pid%3D100338%26rk%3D4%26rkt%3D8%26mehot%3Dag%26sd%3D191648763404
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[chris-red]

I have seriously spent more time considering buying a bike than I did this place.
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[chris-red]

At what point does the absolute terror I'm feeling usually dissipate?
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Well, you know what they say. If you want to save the world, you have to push a few old ladies down the stairs.
Skudd:- Perhaps she just thinks you are a window licker and is being nice just in case she becomes another Jill Dando.
WANTED:- Fujinon (Fuji) M42 (Screw on) lenses, let me know if you have anything.

[chickenstrip]

[grr666]

It's an easy process made difficult by those who will profit from it. You'll probably at some point during the
process wish you'd never bothered, but you just have to stick your chin out and press on. I've just sold one to a first
time buyer with no chain and finance in place. It still took 3 months.

Avoid Looooooong chains if you can, too many variables. A single fuckup anywhere up or down the chain can cause
the whole deal to collapse and you won't even see it coming. I'm not trying to alarm you, just make you aware
that now the 'ball' is in the hands of others expect it to get dropped often and even occasionally lost but usually
if everyone keeps their nerve and nobody pulls out then it gets there in the end.
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[chickenstrip]

[chris-red]

[angryjonny]