Garage build cost ?

[eein]

Hi,

Looking for some rough idea of costs of having a garage built. I can see a pre-fab is about £6k, but cant find much info for getting one built. I'm looking about 6m by 4m, standard car door at the front, standard people door at the rear, apex roofed. I'm wondering if I get a builder to knock such a thing up, breeze block with some kind of render, tiled roof.

Has anyone had a garage built anything like this? If so what were the rough costs?

I'll obviously go get quotes, but am just hoping to get an idea to see if it's even worth considering.

Cheers,

Iain

[037]

I’m building a brick detached garage for a customer that measures 3x7m. Cost of this is £18k. Customer is supplying the doors.

[emperorburger]

Had a 16'5" x 18'3" apex roof pre-cast concrete garage installed in 2011. Fully delivered and installed, it came to £4,600 inc VAT. Realise this is some years ago now, however equivalent sized brick built quotes were coming in at nearer £18k at the time.

[blueg33]

I had prices from my QS yesterday. Including prelims and contractors overheads and profit.

All measured by a proper QS assuming south east labour rates but not greater London rates.

Cost breakdown and rate per metre sq in second and fourth columns

Edited by blueg33 on Saturday 25th January 16:56

[eein]

037 said:

I’m building a brick detached garage for a customer that measures 3x7m. Cost of this is £18k. Customer is supplying the doors.

That's really useful and a similar size. Can I ask, is that brick or breeze block? And what type of roof?

[eein]

blueg33 said:

I had prices from my QS yesterday. Including prelims and contractors overheads and profit.

All measured by a proper QS assuming south east labour rates but not greater London rates.

Cost breakdown and rate per metre sq in second and fourth columns

Edited by blueg33 on Saturday 25th January 16:56

Thanks for sharing, great to get a breakdown. Are you going ahead with the job? ie going to get specific quotes?

[blueg33]

eein said:

blueg33 said:

I had prices from my QS yesterday. Including prelims and contractors overheads and profit.

All measured by a proper QS assuming south east labour rates but not greater London rates.

Cost breakdown and rate per metre sq in second and fourth columns

Edited by blueg33 on Saturday 25th January 16:56

Thanks for sharing, great to get a breakdown. Are you going ahead with the job? ie going to get specific quotes?

Interesting question. I am a director of a house builder and we are ramping up to 10,000 homes per annum over the next 5 years. So yes I expect to build a few garages

This was an update price, we review build costs regularly for our cost planning and financial models.

We will tender construction work and tenders will be benchmarked against the QS estimate.

[037]

Hi sorry for the delay in getting back to you. It’s a brick garage. I’ll take a pic next week for you to get an idea of the job. The bricks had to match the house and were expensive (79p each plus vat)
Also stone detail above the openings .

[eein]

blueg33 said:

eein said:

blueg33 said:

I had prices from my QS yesterday. Including prelims and contractors overheads and profit.

All measured by a proper QS assuming south east labour rates but not greater London rates.

Cost breakdown and rate per metre sq in second and fourth columns

Edited by blueg33 on Saturday 25th January 16:56

Thanks for sharing, great to get a breakdown. Are you going ahead with the job? ie going to get specific quotes?

Interesting question. I am a director of a house builder and we are ramping up to 10,000 homes per annum over the next 5 years. So yes I expect to build a few garages

This was an update price, we review build costs regularly for our cost planning and financial models.

We will tender construction work and tenders will be benchmarked against the QS estimate.

...I did find it a bit odd you'd got a QS just for a garage job.

[blueg33]

eein said:

blueg33 said:

eein said:

blueg33 said:

I had prices from my QS yesterday. Including prelims and contractors overheads and profit.

All measured by a proper QS assuming south east labour rates but not greater London rates.

Cost breakdown and rate per metre sq in second and fourth columns

Edited by blueg33 on Saturday 25th January 16:56

Thanks for sharing, great to get a breakdown. Are you going ahead with the job? ie going to get specific quotes?

Interesting question. I am a director of a house builder and we are ramping up to 10,000 homes per annum over the next 5 years. So yes I expect to build a few garages

This was an update price, we review build costs regularly for our cost planning and financial models.

We will tender construction work and tenders will be benchmarked against the QS estimate.

...I did find it a bit odd you'd got a QS just for a garage job.

Why? Everything is costed by a QS for feasibility (of a QS provides standard rates). We need to be able to provide a reasonably accurate cost for appraisal. Last week also included a QS review of prelims, and bricklayer labour rates.

[eein]

blueg33 said:

eein said:

blueg33 said:

eein said:

blueg33 said:

I had prices from my QS yesterday. Including prelims and contractors overheads and profit.

All measured by a proper QS assuming south east labour rates but not greater London rates.

Cost breakdown and rate per metre sq in second and fourth columns

Edited by blueg33 on Saturday 25th January 16:56

Thanks for sharing, great to get a breakdown. Are you going ahead with the job? ie going to get specific quotes?

Interesting question. I am a director of a house builder and we are ramping up to 10,000 homes per annum over the next 5 years. So yes I expect to build a few garages

This was an update price, we review build costs regularly for our cost planning and financial models.

We will tender construction work and tenders will be benchmarked against the QS estimate.

...I did find it a bit odd you'd got a QS just for a garage job.

Why? Everything is costed by a QS for feasibility (of a QS provides standard rates). We need to be able to provide a reasonably accurate cost for appraisal. Last week also included a QS review of prelims, and bricklayer labour rates.

… I meant I thought it was odd when I thought you were a domestic user just looking to build one! For lots, absolutely normal or course.

[blueg33]

eein said:

blueg33 said:

eein said:

blueg33 said:

eein said:

blueg33 said:

I had prices from my QS yesterday. Including prelims and contractors overheads and profit.

All measured by a proper QS assuming south east labour rates but not greater London rates.

Cost breakdown and rate per metre sq in second and fourth columns

Edited by blueg33 on Saturday 25th January 16:56

Thanks for sharing, great to get a breakdown. Are you going ahead with the job? ie going to get specific quotes?

Interesting question. I am a director of a house builder and we are ramping up to 10,000 homes per annum over the next 5 years. So yes I expect to build a few garages

This was an update price, we review build costs regularly for our cost planning and financial models.

We will tender construction work and tenders will be benchmarked against the QS estimate.

...I did find it a bit odd you'd got a QS just for a garage job.

Why? Everything is costed by a QS for feasibility (of a QS provides standard rates). We need to be able to provide a reasonably accurate cost for appraisal. Last week also included a QS review of prelims, and bricklayer labour rates.

… I meant I thought it was odd when I thought you were a domestic user just looking to build one! For lots, absolutely normal or course.

Oh, I see what you mean.

[Julia121]

eein said:

Hi,

Looking for some rough idea of costs of having a garage built. I can see a pre-fab is about £6k, but cant find much info for getting one built. I'm looking about 6m by 4m, standard car door at the front, standard people door at the rear, apex roofed. I'm wondering if I get a builder to knock such a thing up, breeze block with some kind of render, tiled roof.

Has anyone had a garage built anything like this? If so what were the rough costs?

I'll obviously go get quotes, but am just hoping to get an idea to see if it's even worth considering.

Cheers,

Iain

I'd breeze and render, buy a serviceable roof, front/back door, windows off ebay. Do as much as you can yourself. I'd only pay k4 at the maximum and that includes lighting. Then again a garage doesn't come high on my wish list. Depends also If you want it all immediately or if an ongoing project.

[eein]

Julia121 said:

eein said:

Hi,

Looking for some rough idea of costs of having a garage built. I can see a pre-fab is about £6k, but cant find much info for getting one built. I'm looking about 6m by 4m, standard car door at the front, standard people door at the rear, apex roofed. I'm wondering if I get a builder to knock such a thing up, breeze block with some kind of render, tiled roof.

Has anyone had a garage built anything like this? If so what were the rough costs?

I'll obviously go get quotes, but am just hoping to get an idea to see if it's even worth considering.

Cheers,

Iain

I'd breeze and render, buy a serviceable roof, front/back door, windows off ebay. Do as much as you can yourself. I'd only pay k4 at the maximum and that includes lighting. Then again a garage doesn't come high on my wish list. Depends also If you want it all immediately or if an ongoing project.

I'd actually quite like to build the whole thing myself, however I have been 'instructed' to not take part in this one as my list has plenty of other things on it...

[dhutch]

blueg33 said:

I had prices from my QS yesterday. Including prelims and contractors overheads and profit.

All measured by a proper QS assuming south east labour rates but not greater London rates.

Cost breakdown and rate per metre sq in second and fourth columns

Very interesting.

Presumably 'sub structure' is foundations, and 'superstructure' the walls and roof?

The double is more than double the single, does the reflect a change from single skin with pillars to twin skin due to the size or something?

What are the dimensions of the 'double' and 'single' garage?


Thanks

[Steve_W]

blueg33 said:

I had prices from my QS yesterday. Including prelims and contractors overheads and profit.

All measured by a proper QS assuming south east labour rates but not greater London rates.

Cost breakdown and rate per metre sq in second and fourth columns

That's really interesting - thanks for that. My OH is always telling me I have no idea of what things cost these days and that breakdown would appear that she is correct - I had no idea that the substructure (presumably footings and slab?) for a double garage would cost over £7,000.

In my naivety I'd just look at it and think "JCB to dig 3 trenches for footings, bit of concrete and shuttering, and there you go, can't be more than a few hundred?!"

Mind you, I've no idea how much concrete you'd need, nor how expensive concrete is either?

[brman]

blueg33 said:

I had prices from my QS yesterday. Including prelims and contractors overheads and profit.

All measured by a proper QS assuming south east labour rates but not greater London rates.

Cost breakdown and rate per metre sq in second and fourth columns

Edited by blueg33 on Saturday 25th January 16:56

By coincidence I am also mulling over whether to replace my garage, similar requirements to the OP. Do those figures assume whoever gets the job will be building lots of garages at the same time? ie some economy of scale? So if getting a quote for a on off garage on an already mature plot we can expect the figures to be a bit higher?

[blueg33]

dhutch said:

blueg33 said:

I had prices from my QS yesterday. Including prelims and contractors overheads and profit.

All measured by a proper QS assuming south east labour rates but not greater London rates.

Cost breakdown and rate per metre sq in second and fourth columns

Very interesting.

Presumably 'sub structure' is foundations, and 'superstructure' the walls and roof?

The double is more than double the single, does the reflect a change from single skin with pillars to twin skin due to the size or something?

What are the dimensions of the 'double' and 'single' garage?


Thanks

Substructure is foundations and slab, Super structure is brick with timber truss roof and concrete tiles.

Single is 14.66 sqm double is just under 20 sqm
Double needs more piers and heavier lintels assuming a large double door, both will be single skin

TBH I dont drill into the detail unless the total looks wrong

[Alucidnation]

Just find a local reputable builder and you should be able to get it done for around 10k.

[C Lee Farquar]

Presumably Blueg33's figures would exclude VAT?