What would you do to this garage?

[Shaoxter]

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

[Shaoxter]

TA14 said:

I like your thinking. I'd guess £12K (£7K for an extended garage, £2K for a steel goal post to replace the existing brick wall, £1.5K for services and £1,5K for other guff.)

I'd consider a halfway house solution. If you only knock down the rear half of the end wall then you won't have to put in a goal post ormove the services so the cost might tumble to £6K. How much is it worth to you to remove a bit of an island wall between garages two and three?

ETA a bit more for the cost of the extended garage.

Some nice ideas, thanks!

[Shaoxter]

My first thought was a carport but then it would still mean the garage would still be a tight fit for 2 cars. As the area on the right is bigger than a single garage space, I thought extending the garage to a triple would make it comfortably fit 3 cars.

Also does anyone have any recommendations for a carport that's not fugly?

TA14 said:

PositronicRay said:

TA14 said:

Not so good for the door opening issue though.

I didn't know there was one?

only about a foot width to open each door so possible but tight:

Shaoxter said:

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.

I don't understand the door opening thing either?
There's only one door for that garage at the moment.

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TA14 said:

Car door. (I've altered the quote now. With you saying that the garage was tight and giving the widths of cars I thought that that meant that you wanted more room to open you r car doors, if not carry on

Correct! Yeah that's what I was also alluding to in my previous post

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R6VED said:

I would advise that if you buy it you live with it and see how it works for you. We moved into a new house with lots of plans for it about 18 months ago and have subsequently re-prioritised having lived in the house as it is for a while.

I'm well aware that people frequently just get used to their surroundings and don't bother with the planned extensions, etc. and to be honest we'd probably end up doing the same
But I just want to get an idea of what's possible.

blade7 said:

Raise the roof, have an extra room over in half of it, then put a lift in the garage, you could get 3 cars in then.

I was just about to type the rofl smiley but a quick google images search brings some interesting ideas!

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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...