Anyone had a garage built?
03 July 2007, 10:48 PM
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Anyone had a garage built?
Looking at buying houses, but the one we possibly want would need a garage building.
Anyone know roughly how much a garage costs? Ideally want a double length (single width) one, but a single would be better than nowt!!
Anyone know roughly how much a garage costs? Ideally want a double length (single width) one, but a single would be better than nowt!!
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Yes, double garage. Attatched to the house, roof pitched to match. Cost us about 9k. Was a big job because the existing founds had to be removed and replaced. This was about 4 years ago 
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Our problem was the founds were no good. We needed to have rods drilled into the house because of where we live, near the river. I have no idea, don't ask.
That's what put the cost up. Shop around, we had quotes from 7k up to 18k
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I had a single garage rebuilt after it subsided, new slab, 3 new walls, new roof (original would have been re-used but it was asbestos). It cost about £5.5k through the insurance company.
04 July 2007, 08:36 AM
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Depends on what you want, block is cheaper than brick, flat roof cheaper than pitch.
I had an oversized width double built with a 3m x 3m workshop on the back, water and power down from the house (50m) and it came in at £16K, but then it took 1.5 concrete trucks to fill the foundations as we live on a steep hill
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I had an oversized width double built with a 3m x 3m workshop on the back, water and power down from the house (50m) and it came in at £16K, but then it took 1.5 concrete trucks to fill the foundations as we live on a steep hill
This is it:
04 July 2007, 12:24 PM
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Paid £9k last year for a "large single" detached. That included excavation and foundations as there was only soil/grass originally.
Garage is wide enough to fully open car doors too
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Garage is wide enough to fully open car doors too
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05 July 2007, 12:14 AM
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Looks nice. We're first time buyers so gonna be a struggle as it is, hence having to buy where a garage is needed 
so just need a boggo one hehe.
so just need a boggo one hehe.
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save some cash and do some of it yourself, easy stuff like digging out foundations etc....
thats what i NEED to do to afford my garage not what i WANT to do!
all the boring easy manual jobs etc!
thats what i NEED to do to afford my garage not what i WANT to do!
all the boring easy manual jobs etc!
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