I live in a conventional semi-detached house (in Leeds) and am thinking of building a garage at side (adjoining the house). Thinking it would be about 5 metres long and it would be about 3 metres wide. Double garage doors at front and normal door at the rear (into rear garden). For aesthetic reasons would prefer pitched, tiled roof but realise ‘flat roof’ may be less expensive.
I know there are probably loads of variables which make it difficult to be accurate but just after some indication?
Anyone have any idea how much(ish)?
7 years ago i was getting prices ranging between £7k and £15k for a basic adjoining garage (Single).
Builders are looking for work so it may be a case of playing a bit of hardball with a one man band type to get a good price
You might be able to get one of the pre-fab ones for about 3-4 k according to the guy across the road from me. He knocked his old one down and built the new one in a day with his son. They just had a load of massive concrete slabs delivered. Has a slopping roof and guttering and everything. obviously it's not up to the same standard as a brick one but it seems solid enough and the guy reckons they're good for 15-20 years.
Obviously you'd need some reasonable foundations and fixing points already/.
Paul, we have been quoted between 13.5 and 25 to do ours (including porch though). Can recommend a builder if you want. that includes demolishing the old one and digging up a large amount of concrete driveway as well .
thanks for the replies.
Had looked at the prefab ones but as the space is quite tight it does neet to be adjoining and I 'm not to sure how it'd look.
'we have been quoted between 13.5 and 25' - that's quite a significant range, however I guess it depends how much they want the work.
Might get a few formal quotes and see how it goes - I have limited budget and my girlfriend and I differ on what to do with it. I want the garage and she wants - new bathroom, new kitchen, engagement ring etc etc.
[i]she wants - new bathroom, new kitchen, engagement ring etc etc. [/i]
You need to knock that sort of discussion on the head sharpish mate.
DIY? The brick manufacturer near to me seems to be trying to give its stock away, its yard (including its parking areas) are now stacked several layers high with bricks that aren't going anywhere!
From experience, prefab garages are awful - so narrow you can bearly get a car in. But very fast and easy.
[i]Might get a few formal quotes[/i]
Good luck with that. In my limited experience, trying to get builders to provide a formal quote in writing is quite difficult, unless you have the design and resultant building warrant.
Another -1 for prefab garages here. I had one, albeit it was 30 off years old, but it was in a terrible state.
When I had my detatched double garage built 10 years ago it cost 17K (the garage door alone was 2K), it's 7m x 5m with a tiled pitched roof. It has a breeze block inner, a brick outer & if we insulated the cavity you could live in it 🙂
Personally I'd suggest that you build the garage as big as you can get away with on the ground available, I'd also go for a flat roof as you may wish to, in time, build on top of the garage to make more bedrooms/nursery rather than say moving elsewhere. If this is a possibility then make sure the garage foundations put in now are able to take the extra weight of any future extention of the garage upwards.
Crispy to extend on top the foundation needs to be laid for that proposed loading, a significant cost in itself. A prefab is likely to have a larger floor area for a given external size compared to brick built. 9 years ago my 25' x 11' garage cost £2.5k erected on the base. The base cost about £1.5k all up including land make up, self build.
I got a quote recently to have my 2 single garages knocked down (both to small for a car) and a double built to replace them. Block construction with brick front, flat roof, new door. This was around £7k.
[i]so narrow you can bearly get a car in[/i]
why on earth would you want to put a car in there? 😉
7 years ago built one for £5K - apart from brickwork and tiling it was all DIY.