Garage conversion back into garage ?

[blade7]

Are there planning or building regs requirements when reinstating a double garage that has been converted into a habitable space ?

[Fab32]

I have no idea but massive man points for doing it

[blade7]

Place we're looking at has had the conversion done, undoing it would make a nice garage with the boarded walls and ceiling, just needs the floor tiling to finish it off.

[mattdaniels]

The house you're looking at is not in the Nuneaton area is it?

[Pints]

We were looking at houses recently and any house that had had a garage conversion (or just didn't have a garage) was immediately dismissed.

78 man points on offer for setting it right.

[blade7]

Looking in Cambridgeshire, if it hasn't got a double garage or room to build one it's a non starter.

[bobtail4x4]

Technically you need to make sure the fire stopping is all in place so it needs B Regs.

I converted a garage to a granny flat myself, a few years ago, thinking of converting it back now.

[TheLordJohn]

Fab32 said:

I have no idea but massive man points for doing it

Yep, defintely huge man points for you!
It's depressing the amount of 'men' who convert garages into gay rooms.

[505diff]

You just need an up and over door fitted, leave the carpet and skirting board in place, drive car in, job done, top PH points

[TA14]

If there's a room above you need adequate insulation and fire protection. Fire door into the house. Step down to or slope on floor. Be sure that the garage cannot vent into the house. Hope for no nasty surprises. Good luck!

[blade7]

Thanks for the replies. No habitable space above the garage. I was expecting a fire door would be a requirement. So is it necessary to involve planning or building regs or just for a builder to self certificate the work ?

[DrDeAtH]

I would suggest doing the works off a building notice.

[blade7]

[Harry Flashman]

The house that we are hoping to buy (offer accepted) has a single garage. Lady F made noises about this being used as a utility/storage room.

This will not be happening, as the space has already been earmarked as a warm, snug home for the Morgan. With a huge TV parked on the wall so that I can sit in the car with the roof down and watch films, whilst escaping chores.

Garages in London are not easy things to find. No way are we converting this one into something else.

[onomatopoeia]

TheLordJohn said:

Fab32 said:

I have no idea but massive man points for doing it

Yep, defintely huge man points for you!
It's depressing the amount of 'men' who convert garages into gay rooms.

I think if a new, larger garage is built separate from the main dwelling before the conversion then that's fine. Doing away with the garage and not providing a better replacement is a non-starter.

However, I'm biased as since building a double in the garden I currently have garaging for five cars and am considering reducing this to only four so I can have a server room.

[blade7]

Sadly the garage in question turned out to have some historic subsidence damage, though it doesn't seem to have got worse in over 10 years and I would have sorted it out after purchase I think it casts a shadow over the whole property.