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Looking at buying a house which has a handy brick out building. Ideally this would be a bike store/workroom, but it's not quite tall enough. Anyone give me a guesstimate for building it up by say 3 foot? It's roughly 10 foot wide by 6 foot deep & tall, and has a flat roof. It also has an internal wall that would want taking down to make it one room. Looks like this:
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Rough idea anyone?
just be careful with planning etc when you're raising roof heights - chap at the end of our road had to submit an application when he thought he could knock down the old shed and put up a slightly larger, slightly taller replacement...
Cheers woffle, we'll make sure we check that. Hopefully not too much of an issue as the houses behind are higher up and the hedge to the right of the shed marks the boundary between the properties so it wouldn't really affect the neighbour either. I know it's never that simple though!
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As a QS:
Estimate 1 Say...
£2000 - £3000
* But I've not be practising for years.
** Be aware of planning as Woffle says.
*** Some quick AIR etc here..
http://www.whatprice.co.uk/building/price.html
Dig the floor out to give you more room 😉
Do you need it to be bigger? I've got something very similar (it's maybe a foot taller judging by the size of the door in the photo) which is my bike shed/workshop. It accommodates a full size bench, 4 bikes and a 3/4 size chest freezer in relative comfort/space to work on them. Don't have any piccys to hand unfortunately....
bb - it's just big enough to stand up in, but I'm pretty sure you wouldn't get a bike on a stand say. I'd check before obviously, but I do think it needs to be a foot or 2 higher sadly. Jamie - that's not such a bad idea mate! 🙂
Ah, gotcha, that is pretty cramped - in which case employ a dwarf bike fettler. Probably cheaper in the long run......
bb - or we could buy a house with a bloody garage, which is what I really want! 🙂
If it's single skin brickwork, you're looking at approx 500 bricks to go up 3ft (cost dependent on where you buy/borrow them from). Then about a day for a brickie to build it (£200-£300 labour only per day), half a day to strip the roof and clear the mess away and half a day to put a roof back on. Other costs would be a skip, roof materials, sand and cement, door/floor security and any tools you may have to hire.
If it's a 9 inch thick wall then double the bricks and labour time. Not sure what a chippy would charge to do the roof if you can't do it yourself.
If you're going to apply for planning, you may as well take a punt and apply to make it bigger too. If you get the consent then by lifting the roof you will have activated the consent and can then at any date in the future make it bigger (perhaps when you have spare money). of course you do have a slightly elevated risk that the bigger building might mean the planning is refused but talking face to face with the planner, showing them photos etc will give you an amount of certainty
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Cheers all 🙂