Garage room

Special garage room

It would be tough to argue against the fact that the Maserati Granturismo is a beautiful car, but would you want to share your living room with it? 

A Garage Conversion does not inv.We decided to convert the garage into a family room.  We have to do this because the kid's (as our grandchildren are known) have taken over Arlene's room (known as the Purple room) into a defacto playroom.  The house originally had an atrtached one car garage, the previous owners added on a two car garage and turned the first garage into a storeroom ( read junk room).  The room is about 22'x12' and we dolve a change of use as such and UK Building Regulations will therefore only apply to the structural alterations involved and to any other building controlled works such as drainage. On many occasions a Garage Conversion requires little more than the infilling of the existing garage doorway with a suitable construction. This most often is largely made up of a window. Any infill will need to be supported by either foundations or suitable lintels. This is a structural alteration and as such requires building regulation approval. In particular care should be taken to ensure that suitable damp proof courses are incorporated to prevent water ingress at the new window reveals and where the new infill abuts the existing walls. In some cases the garage already has cavity walling and the works are therefore substantially reduced. If however the existing garage has single leaf masonry walls with piers there will be additional work to try to improve both thermal insulation and weather resistance. This can be achieved by building new internal block work walls, but these will need support and it cannot be assumed that the existing floor will be adequate to support the extra load. If this is the case it may be necessary to excavate new foundations, or expose the existing ones, to ensure proper support to the block work. To avoid problems it is common to provide an internal insulated stud wall. If this is to be adopted it is worth considering prefabricating the stud walls in panels to enable a breather membrane and vapour barrier to be incorporated. In addition the piers can be weathered and insulated to reduce cold spots being formed.