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At least you'll never run out of floss Jabba.
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Anyone had a garage conversion done? Interested is roughly how much it costs. Previous owner of our house converted the back 1/3 of the garage, I want to turn the front 2/3 in to an office so I can hide away 
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Anyone had a garage conversion done? Interested is roughly how much it costs. Previous owner of our house converted the back 1/3 of the garage, I want to turn the front 2/3 in to an office so I can hide away
Looking forward to the replies to this. When we move we are changing the garage into a living room for the MiL.
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Fair dos to you, my MiL came to live with us for 6 months. Never. Again.
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She has been here since March and we are surviving despite 4 of us being stuck together in the same space most of the time. My only gripe is she watches some fucking shit on TV and talks to it and reacts to soaps as if they are real time events but she can do that in her own space and all will be good.
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Anyone had a garage conversion done? Interested is roughly how much it costs. Previous owner of our house converted the back 1/3 of the garage, I want to turn the front 2/3 in to an office so I can hide away
Depends on what you want done, heating, windows etc all add money. How bigs the space, is there a step in the floor ie need screed.
If you do convert the space and change the front you should go through planning
I would say
Floor build up £25/m2
Floor finishes £30/m2
Wall finish ie plasterboard/skim (no insulation) £35/m2
Solid insulation £25/m2
Ceiling £30/m2
Radiator £600
Electric £1000 say couple of twin sockets and new light
Windows £500-1000
That should give you a good budget, but should be able to buy within those rates. Plumbing and electric all depend on access location of existing services
Maybe allow couple hundred for some demo and same again for skip.
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That’s great, really helpful thanks. Just measured and it’s only 2.5 x 2.4m, so going to be very small by the time it’s all insulated. Big enough for what I need though.
It’ll need a floor building up as it’s level with the drive at the moment. Guess that will add a bit on.
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Will also need a bit of blockwork to infill the door opening if you're doing it properly, then brickwork/cladding/render or whatever you want as the external treatment. Unless you're going full height glazing.
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I am used to commercial rates so I've tried to be sensible with this. If you think its falling close to affordable then best bet is get a couple of quotes in, if its that small then maybe best to get individual trades in as youd probably get a better response.
The floor can built the floor up with insulation (polystyrene) then screed the top.
As Mark says you'd probably need a bit of buggeration with the external walls for the windows/doors/floor arrangement. £500-750 would be a sensible allowance if there's not too much to do.
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When I was a child, my maternel grandmother came to stay with us for 7 weeks. 7 years later...
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Finally managed to collate a few quotes on this - best (by far) is £4,700 all in, which also includes moving the boiler. Could have done it a bit cheaper by using a few friends and paying them labour, but I really want it doing properly with warranty & building regs approval.
Worst quote came from a guy not far from Telford, nearly £11k for exactly the same work...
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Name of the Telford one so I don't bother asking him....
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These guys (image link in case they have some weird web scraper thing):
We are using these guys, so far have been excellent - work is planned for end of this month. I'll let you know how they go as they cover surrounding areas too:
https://staffordshiregarageconversions.com/
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Sold 2 Houses recently (1 completed and 1 hopefully a couple of weeks away from completing).
I know they have mixed reviews but used Purple Bricks for both. Went with the option of doing the viewing ourselves, bar a couple of fuckers who didn't bother showing up that worked well. You set your online diary with dates/times you have open and the rest of the time you can set them so you to have confirm.
Also went with their don't pay for 10 months option. That does mean you have to use the solicitor of their choice and we are with Quality Solicitors Davisons on the Waterloo Road and have to say they have been pretty good, especially through the lockdown. If the house sells in that 10 months the solicitors pay the fees from your selling funds. On both houses they sold after just 1 round of viewings and all the offers are dealt with via their app or website.
Having it all online is really good IMO. The buyer of the first house we were able to keep in contact with throughout the process and that became really useful.
There are some nightmare reviews for them out there though but I can only speak from my experience with them and for both its been really good and simple.
