If you can see the garage picture there is study behind the garage.(which you cannot see however for your information). This garage is 4 metre by 2.5 metre. So not wide enough more on bit narrower side.

 

My plan build a living cum storage place for other garage items and couple of cycles which can be wall mounted. *I want it to have garage ambiance or retain that look. Any ideas will help*

 

Question :

1. Any design ideas of garage conversion into living cum storage room.(Couple of cycles & some tools, paint tins)Will BC approve it?

 

2. I want to take help of builder to first install a french window with ventilation to replace garage door or do you recommend some other door type . I want the door to be wide enough atleast 1.5 to 2 meters wide to get some items through into back garden.

 

Plan is do floor, wall and ceiling later by undertaking DYI or friends help.

 

Is this sequence correct or we need to do insulation job done first. 

 

3. I am planning to purchase used french

   door from FB or eBay. Can you please 

   advise how ensure I get right size. The

   have measured just the garage

    door(black metal)

   excluding white wooden frame. It's 2000

   *2210 mm. Can I purchase French door 

    of this size. If the french window is bit

    smaller size can the builder fill the extra

    space with brick or some other material

     or is it better to use companies who

     measurements and do fittings.

 

 

 

Edited October 19, 20241 yr by Mubbashshir

Hi.

 

There's a fair bit of work of you want it to be habitable space. You have to comply with various parts of building control regulations. Your main challenges will be insulation, ventilation, and access (fire safety). A few questions. 

 

Can you access the house already from the space?

 

Do you plan on keeping the separate study at the back? And if so, how is this accessed and does it have external access?

 

Have any of your neighbours done a similar conversion?

 

To quickly answer some of your questions. Highly unlikely you'll get a set of used doors to match that opening. You'll likely be building up the floor level anyway, so you won't know what size door you'll need until you have that detail sorted. All doors and windows are custom made to the opening, it may not make economic sense to make an opening match a door, it's usually the other way round. 

Edited October 20, 20241 yr by Conor

Employ an architect.

On 20/10/2024 at 04:06, Conor said:

Hi.

 

There's a fair bit of work of you want it to be habitable space. You have to comply with various parts of building control regulations. Your main challenges will be insulation, ventilation, and access (fire safety). A few questions. 

 

Can you access the house already from the space?

 

Do you plan on keeping the separate study at the back? And if so, how is this accessed and does it have external access?

 

Have any of your neighbours done a similar conversion?

 

To quickly answer some of your questions. Highly unlikely you'll get a set of used doors to match that opening. You'll likely be building up the floor level anyway, so you won't know what size door you'll need until you have that detail sorted. All doors and windows are custom made to the opening, it may not make economic sense to make an opening match a door, it's usually the other way round. 

Attached are the pictures 

 

1. Yes, plan is to keep the study it has

    access from kitchen also.

 

2. We can access house already from this

    space. You can see in attached picture 

  (Plan is to open another door into 

   this space(picture attached)

 

3.  Plan is to install french doors with small outlets and trickle ventilation which will solve ventilation problem.

 

4. Plan is to keep it as storage space and do the french doors with small outlets in front instead of garage door. and add a side door from main door to keep shoes and coats 

 

 

Moment we plan for raising floor it becomes living space and we have insulate walls and floor etc

 

Any update or input will be appreciated 

Still hard to see without a drawing.

 

Some observations. The proposed door won't work. The area at bottom of the stairs isn't wide enough for an opening. So I think you'd have to rely on your existing space. I assume gor floor you're thinking something like 100mm PIR and floating chipboard on top, then something lino as a finished floor?

 

As you're keeping it as storage space and not adding heating, I dont think building regs apply. Maybe somebody else could comment. Otherwise looks straightforward job.

1 hour ago, Conor said:

Still hard to see without a drawing.

 

Some observations. The proposed door won't work. The area at bottom of the stairs isn't wide enough for an opening. So I think you'd have to rely on your existing space. I assume gor floor you're thinking something like 100mm PIR and floating chipboard on top, then something lino as a finished floor?

 

As you're keeping it as storage space and not adding heating, I dont think building regs apply. Maybe somebody else could comment. Otherwise looks straightforward job.

You’ll need BC approval for any “structural alteration” to the dwelling.

As Conor says the opening “may” not work - you’ll need restraint to the front wall and bearing for the lintels.

If you add heating you will need to insulate the walls, floor and roof. If you insulate the roof you will need to ventilate the roof.

If you don’t access the new space from a hall you’ll need an EEW.

If you create a new living room you’ll need a smoke alarm within 7.5m - interlinked with any detection in the house.

And so on and so forth.

 

@ETC Could you please explain this line "you’ll need restraint to the front wall and bearing for the lintels" with possible examples and pictures? I understood the bearing bit, which means we need a suitable lintel on top of the Door to bear the load  from top (wall and roof load)

 

Please explain me front wall needs to be restrained and some reference reading 

 

Also I have spoken to builder he says since not much space in the corrider however we can open the door in garage space on other side.

 

Edited December 13, 20241 yr by Mubbashshir

2 hours ago, Mubbashshir said:

Please explain me front wall needs to be restrained and some reference reading 

 

 

I do not have reference reading for you, but at the moment that wall between the hallway and the garage is giving some restraint (resistance to 'wobbling') to the front wall. If your new door is as tight to the front wall as it appears it might be there would be no right-angle 'strutting' to the front wall.

Again without a drawing no one can judge.

1982_Extension_Drawing_Plan_No.82_1056 (1).pdf

@joe90 Attached is the drawing also attached the area where we are planning to install a door

On 26/11/2024 at 20:18, ETC said:

You’ll need BC approval for any “structural alteration” to the dwelling.

As Conor says the opening “may” not work - you’ll need restraint to the front wall and bearing for the lintels.

If you add heating you will need to insulate the walls, floor and roof. If you insulate the roof you will need to ventilate the roof.

If you don’t access the new space from a hall you’ll need an EEW.

If you create a new living room you’ll need a smoke alarm within 7.5m - interlinked with any detection in the house.

And so on and so forth.

 

@ETC what is EEW is it Earthquake Early Warning or EEW structural member

Emergency Egress Window.