Upgrading a single skin garage to make it habitable room

[ACEparts_com]

We have an attached single skin garage that we would like to make habitable. How do we do this without a complete rebuild?

[t84]

Lower your standards?

[BRGV8S]

You may require Planning Permission so check with the local Authority. just done this for clients and approval granted. Building Regulations is the problem, they will treat the application as 'new build' in its change to habitable use IE structural stability, damp proofing, fire requirements (means of escape, thermal insulation etc. drainage (if including en-suite)

If your thinking of thermal requirement we are proposing separate inner skin of galvanised steel studs
which will be infilled with rigid insulation over boarded / skimed. In this case a new insulated timber floor is included to bring the floor up to the level of the existing house (450mm) with ventilation front / back, we have the height.

we are also taking off the old flat roof and replacing this with pitch tiles so roof insulation / ventilation is not a problem.

The door will be removed new foundation double skin wall with window under existing lintols

Hope this helps

[AB]

I thought that generally it was seen as sacriledge to convert a garage to a room on PH!

[mk1fan]

AB said:

I thought that generally it was seen as sacriledge to convert a garage to a room on PH!

Depends what you jouse in it

As said, brining the building up to meet the minimum standards of the Building Regs is the biggest hurdle. As daft as it sounds it could possibly be cheaper to knock down the garage and start again. That said, an integrated gargage in a modern house - say less than five-years old - would be very staight forward to convert.

Might be worth a call to your local Building Control office and chat to the District Surveyor - or what ever title they're going by now.