[Closed] Garage conversion to utility and study/games room

Also thinking of the same...
Insulation and more insulation is the main rule I think.
Also building regs would need to be adhered to.
Can be complex if it is linked to the house.

Excuse my ignorance, but where does all the stuff that should be in a garage go when people do this?

The tip, in our case!
Will leave room for bikes and other junk in the front section, add larger window and a velux in the back section.
Will be used as an office / study.
Cheaper than a loft conversion, leaves spare room, errr, spare?

For us the shed and the other garage.

It's already been converted to a room sometime ago, so has a seperate consumer unit and electrics in need of updating. It is attached to the main house and has an interior door, would doubt the insulation rules apply as it was probably converted first In the 60s judging by the sockets and switches. Plus the insulation is no worse that the rest of the place.

Iive been reading sites which are quoting £10-20k for a garage conversion which seems mental money.

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Deliberately keps quite garage like as it is just the corner we use for the Thursday night after ride drinks. The rest is still a garage.

That cost <£200 if you don't mind pallet cladding and splitting the pallets yourself.

Even done properly I can see materials adding up to £1,000

Easy way - Buy cheap CLS timber from B&Q or similar. Fix this to the walls as vertical batons. Yes the room will shrink slightly.

Run the electric you need through the batons leaving tails to connect the sockets to. Get e proper sparky to change the consumer unit if you are changing that (insurance invalid worries etc).

Fix plaster board sheets to the batons. Skim the walls or V thick lining paper.

Job done.

[b]Challenges
[/b]Make sure the baton spacing lines up with the plasterboard ends.
Doorways and windows can be awkwardly placed.
What are you doing about the floor and ceiling?

I want to raise the floor level so it is the same as the adjoining rooms and overclad the ceiling and fill the void with insulation or use insulated plasterboard - the current ceiling looks like sheets of ply.

It currently has its own old dodgy looking consumer unit which will need replacing and the sockets are external with the cable running across the skirting.

Happy enough to chase in, and once the floor is raised should be easy to run the cable. Currently its a solid slab. I'm trying to decided how much of the floor space I should dedicate to the utility / laundry room and how much I should leave left over for the study/games/family room.

I've been looking at layouts which are a very functional walk through wardrobe type affair where the tumbledryer and washing machine are housed - so something like 1.5m2 and maximise the space for other stuff

I would need to build stud walls / new door frame / move an existing door as well

The tip, in our case!

c£10k bicycles, 2 motorbikes, c£20k tools....?

Err no. My garage is more important than my house!
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I want to raise the floor level so it is the same as the adjoining rooms

You definitely need to do this officially (building control etc.) as the floor of an integral garage is required to be lower than the rest of the house as a means of containing flammable liquids.

I’m keeping my garage as a garage. As soon as the builders have ceased using it as their site office, I’ll complete the building of storage cabinets, floor it properly and park a car* in it..!

* daily driver to start with before I acquire an old Elise next year....