What would you do to this garage?

[F1SERB]

AW10 said:

If you extend the garage you'll have to relocate the gas and electric meters which will add to your costs. Might need to actually partially rerun the services from the street.

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Utility companies will want to make the join an public land so a trench to the boundary will be required allow £1k each

[Mr_C]

You can get 2 cars in a 15ft wide garage

[STW2010]

Personally I would leave it as it is. Store one car in the garage and park another next to the garage. That leaves loads of space in front for further parking.

That garden looks awesome!

[ozzuk]

I would go for the lift idea but lift that goes into the ground, not up. You could then hollow out underneath, maybe even stumble across some caverns and turn it into a secret hideout. It would probably cost a few million but you could fund it through nefarious enterprises. I'm not sure what the council tax impact would be though.

Food for thought...

[Shaoxter]

STW2010 said:

Personally I would leave it as it is. Store one car in the garage and park another next to the garage. That leaves loads of space in front for further parking.

That garden looks awesome!

But I want my cars to be in a nice indoor garage

Yes we do love the garden, will have to start picking up some gardening skills!

ozzuk said:

I would go for the lift idea but lift that goes into the ground, not up. You could then hollow out underneath, maybe even stumble across some caverns and turn it into a secret hideout. It would probably cost a few million but you could fund it through nefarious enterprises. I'm not sure what the council tax impact would be though.

Food for thought...

I did come across these when searching for car lifts, there's even some triple decker ones! Unfortunately I don't have the required few million pounds though
And if I did I would buy a bigger house with a quadruple garage...

[clarkey]

Shaoxter said:

Went to view a house, it's in a nice area and priced pretty well but annoyingly the "double" garage is only 17' x 15' (5.18m x 4.57m). Is that wide enough to fit 2 cars in? Let's say one is 1.85m wide and the other is 1.70m.

Alternatively if you look at the link below, I was thinking to extend the garage to the side and make it a triple The open space there takes a car very easily. Any idea how much that would cost?

Pics here

I'd be surprised if you'd get permission to extend the garage to the side - it extends beyond the front of the house, so isn't covered by permitted development rights, and I would expect you to get planning permission for it. I could be wrong, you may be lucky, but if you buy the house, do so expecting to keep it the same size!

Personally, I think 15ft is really tight for a 2 car garage. You are bound to need to keep loads of other stuff in there too, so think of it as a large single and you'll be very happy.