markie g
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We we're currently planning converting the garage into a room. We will be doing it as a little project ourselves so trying to keep costs to a minimum.
We've had 1 builder out so far to get a quote, and he mentioned if we were to have a window the full width of the garage door it would save around £600 as there wouldn't be additonal brick work either side of the window. We've priced up a full width window and it's literally not much more (~£100).
I've attached a image of what it is currently and what we hope it will look like when done.
All sounds good, however i've got a question I hope someone could help me with...
Our house is about 20 years old, so has the standard brick, gap, insulation, breeze block. Would the requirements for the new brick and window section require this methodology all the way from the floor to the ceiling? The reason i ask is that the inside of the garage edges there's not a massive amount of room: 1 side about 5cm and other side about 8cm. We will be dot and dabbing the walls so there's enough for that which seems a standard of about 3cm.
But my concern is that we need to breeze block all the way up (or do we?)
I've attached 2 images of the walls either side to show how much we have to play with.
I've attached a image which i hope helps show what i mean also. What would the requirements for the blue section be? Could we just have breeze block on the inside to the window level, then insulation up those side hidden with plasterboard? You can see the garage walls are fairly thick anyway so hoping that's ok?
I hope this makes sense.
We've had 1 builder out so far to get a quote, and he mentioned if we were to have a window the full width of the garage door it would save around £600 as there wouldn't be additonal brick work either side of the window. We've priced up a full width window and it's literally not much more (~£100).
I've attached a image of what it is currently and what we hope it will look like when done.
All sounds good, however i've got a question I hope someone could help me with...
Our house is about 20 years old, so has the standard brick, gap, insulation, breeze block. Would the requirements for the new brick and window section require this methodology all the way from the floor to the ceiling? The reason i ask is that the inside of the garage edges there's not a massive amount of room: 1 side about 5cm and other side about 8cm. We will be dot and dabbing the walls so there's enough for that which seems a standard of about 3cm.
But my concern is that we need to breeze block all the way up (or do we?)
I've attached 2 images of the walls either side to show how much we have to play with.
I've attached a image which i hope helps show what i mean also. What would the requirements for the blue section be? Could we just have breeze block on the inside to the window level, then insulation up those side hidden with plasterboard? You can see the garage walls are fairly thick anyway so hoping that's ok?
I hope this makes sense.