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What you get
An office, a playroom, a downstairs bedroom or more kitchen. Often the cheapest square metres you can add to a house.
OUR SERVICES
Garage conversions in Oldham and Greater Manchester
Turn an underused garage into a comfortable office, living space or extra room.
WHAT IT INVOLVES
What a garage conversion involves
Turn an underused garage into a comfortable office, living space or extra room.
Where they go wrong
Garage floors sit lower, uninsulated, sometimes straight on the ground, and the walls are often single skin. Skip that and you get a cold room with a damp corner.
Done properly
Floor rebuilt with insulation and a membrane tied into the existing one, walls lined, the old opening bricked up to match with a proper lintel. Then it is an ordinary room.
IN THE QUOTE
What is in the quote
- The floor taken up, damp proofed, insulated and rebuilt to meet the house floor level
- The garage opening closed in with matching brickwork, a proper lintel and a cavity
- Insulation and lining to the existing garage walls
- Ceiling insulation where there is no heated room above
- Electrics, heating and any plumbing the new use needs
- Plastering, second fix and the junction into the rest of the house
The job most often done badly, because it looks simple and the expensive parts are the floor and the wall insulation nobody sees.
HOW WE DO IT
How a garage conversion job actually goes
Four steps, start to finish, so you know what happens and when.
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01
Tell us what you want instead of a garage
A room, an office, a gym, a utility, or a bigger kitchen. A photo of the garage from inside and out tells us most of what we need.
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02
What is under the floor and behind the walls
Garage floors sit lower than the house and are rarely insulated, and the walls are often a single skin. The visit establishes how much building up and lining the room actually needs.
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A written quote with the cold bits priced
Floor build up and insulation, the wall linings, the new opening where the door was, glazing, electrics and heating. The parts that make it warm enough to use are the parts people forget to price.
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Closed up, insulated, then finished
The door opening is bricked up and the lintel set, the floor and walls are built up, then it is plastered, wired and finished like any other room in the house.
THREE WAYS TO START
Talk to us about your garage conversion
Whichever is easiest. You get the same answer from all three.
Or send it in a minute
Three boxes and a photo if you have one.
PAST WORK
Recent work
Finished jobs, photographed on site.
Call us for your garage conversion quote
A written quote, itemised, with no obligation.
USEFUL TO KNOW
Garage conversion questions
Will it be as warm as the rest of the house?
It will if the floor and the walls are done properly, and it will not if they are not. The floor is the one people skip because it is the expensive, invisible part, and a converted garage with a cold floor is the single most common complaint about this job.
Do I need permission to convert my garage?
Often it falls under permitted development for an integral garage, and often it does not, particularly where the front elevation changes or where planning conditions on the estate require a parking space to be kept. It is the council's answer. You get a straight view at the quote on what to ask.
Can you match the brickwork where the garage door was?
As closely as the available brick allows. On a thirties or fifties house an exact match is sometimes not possible because the brick is not made any more, and where that is the case you are told before anything is ordered. Sometimes the better answer is a window that makes the change look deliberate rather than a patch that nearly matches.
We had ours converted years ago and it is cold and damp. Can it be put right?
Usually. Most of those were done without lifting the floor and without closing the opening in properly. Both can be redone. What it costs depends on which of the two yours has, and that is what the first visit is for.
Often booked alongside
Structural alterationsGET A PRICE
Tell us about your job
Three boxes and a photo if you have one. We price it in writing, with no obligation.
Where we work from
Based in Oldham, covering Greater Manchester.
07542 569 403
office@akjohnbuilders.co.uk
Oldham, Greater Manchester