Rough price to build a garage

[ColinM50]

Son is looking to buy a new build house without a garage but has space for one 6m wide and about the same length. He reckons he can get an open type wood frame one for c£3k but I reckon he's very ambitious at that price.

Anybody have a ball park figure for a proper brick built garage with a pitched roof that size? Or a wood open type?

TIZ

[Alex Z]

There are wooden ones on eBay for that price/size, but that doesn’t include the base and I’ve no idea on quality.

[Wombat3]

Just a door is going to between £1 & 3K depending on what it is. You could easily drop £20-25 grand on that all in.

Garages: world's most expensive empty boxes !

[autohead]

He needs to be careful with a new build, some don't allow outbuildings. On my new build we are supposed to get permission for a shed.

My application for a car port or garage was declined.

[Bobtherallyfan]

autohead said:

He needs to be careful with a new build, some don't allow outbuildings. On my new build we are supposed to get permission for a shed.

My application for a car port or garage was declined.

Absolutely...Permitted development rights may have been withdrawn as part of the planning approval to stop overdevelopment.

[Gad-Westy]

Many of the kits (if that is the direction he intends to go in) will exclude the cost of roof covering and some exclude the cladding material too. Then there is any groundworks etc to consider.

[ColinM50]

He'd prefer a proper garage and of course would check if PP is needed along with the OK from the builder.

So it's just rough building costs for foundations, brickwork, roof etc. Just a rough ballpark figure would help if you can.

[eein]

I thread where I asked the same thing about a year ago. Got a response from a proper quantity surveyor.
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

I have now had mine built, albeit waiting for the final wooden doors delayed due to covid. My total cost was £20k without the doors. They were £2k as they are fancy hardwood ones. My size is 2.87m x 5.78m, single skin red brick, tiled roof, pvc soffits, gutters, rear single door with window, concrete base with 2' deep hardcore base underneath. I am based in the South East England.

I've then fitted it out - resin floor, fully wired, LED lighting, bonus rafters for storage, shelves, worktop, plumbing, cheap kitchen units and solid wood worktop and various metal filing cabinets and cupboards I had before. The fit out was around £750 materials.

[It's fixable...]

@ eein, what hardwood was used for the doors please?

[Belle427]

I would think £20k is a fair ballpark figure for a 6m x 6m.
When you consider what we spend on cars over the years I think it’s a sound investment, especially if you live in there like I do!

[eein]

It's fixable... said:

@ eein, what hardwood was used for the doors please?

The front doors are soft wood (pine I think) from this place.
https://www.woodengatemakers.co.uk/garage-doors

They are actually going to be changed. I'd specified the hardwood versions (from the same place) but my builder got mixed up and ordered the soft wood by mistake. He's got them on order and will be swapping them out in due course (the supplier is being very, very slow due to covid staff issues and prioritising bigger orders). So my builder will have the doors in this picture as surplus in a few months and very keen to sell them on to a good home to recover some of his mistake costs!

Oh and I painted the hinges black with hammerite - hence they look a bit more distinctive than the silver galvanised ones on the supplier's website.

[TimmyMallett]

You can tell you've spent time and effort on that. Brick match is nice. Painting white on the brick must have taken ages but looks nice. The floor looks top notch. Nice slope on the approach in pavers. Doors look really nice even in softwood.I'd be super proud o' that.

[the cueball]

I'm currently looking at a 6x4 garage extension and quotes are around the 25-30k mark.

That does include fully lined internal walls and an electric roller door.

[530dTPhil]

We had a base and a 6.1m wide x 7m deep wooden garage put up for £12k. £3.5k was the base with a soakaway to spec set by Warwick Buildings. The garage was £8.5k, erected in half a day and built to spec with framed doors and an additional pair of doors on one side to get the ride on and gang mowers in.
Very well built and a good spec. Electrics and alarm were on top of that.

Edited by 530dTPhil on Tuesday 24th November 11:09

[DaveCWK]

I have a 5.2mx5.2m brick double garage, 1 window, with a boarded out cut timber ~30 degree roof giving a reasonable crouching loft storage & concrete tiles. Before I moved I was told it was 'worth'/ would cost about £25k to build from scratch.

[Gad-Westy]

530dTPhil said:

We had a base and a 6.1m wide x 7m deep wooden garage put up for £12k. £3.5k was the base with a soakaway to spec set by Warwick Buildings. The garage was £8.5k, erected in half a day and built to spec with framed doors and an additional pair of doors on one side to get the ride on and gang mowers in.
Very well built and a good spec. Electrics and alarm were on top of that.

Edited by 530dTPhil on Tuesday 24th November 11:09

Looks great and decent value. What the frame and calling woods?

[Gad-Westy]

TimmyMallett said:

You can tell you've spent time and effort on that. Brick match is nice. Painting white on the brick must have taken ages but looks nice. The floor looks top notch. Nice slope on the approach in pavers. Doors look really nice even in softwood.I'd be super proud o' that.

I don't if it's what eein did, the white paint is a doddle with a paint sprayer. I wish I'd known that before I paint my own garage with brush and rollers. I must have put 20 hours+ into it. Then a couple of months later watched my mate do his with a hired electric sprayer in what seemed like 5 minutes. And his finish is far better than mine!

[rustyuk]

530dTPhil said:

We had a base and a 6.1m wide x 7m deep wooden garage put up for £12k. £3.5k was the base with a soakaway to spec set by Warwick Buildings. The garage was £8.5k, erected in half a day and built to spec with framed doors and an additional pair of doors on one side to get the ride on and gang mowers in.
Very well built and a good spec. Electrics and alarm were on top of that.

Edited by 530dTPhil on Tuesday 24th November 11:09

This is the route I'm going down. Just need to get off my arse and get planning sorted.

[sidekickdmr]

Just finished a single oak frame, concrete slab, dwarf brick wall, slate tiled, softwood doored garage, all in all, about 15k

[Dan_1981]

I had no idea garages were this sort of price.

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