Gazz292
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I live in a bungalow,
it originally had a separate double garage that is now a joined on habitable space.
The story goes that 2 old spinsters lived here, one of them got a boyfriend and planned to get married but the sisters still wanted to still live together, so the garage was converted into a 2nd living room, an extension was built on the back of the garage / living room, to be the couples bedroom with an en-suite bathroom, the kitchen end wall taken down and the roof extended from the garage to join the main bungalow,
back doors put in where the alley between the old garage and bungalow exited into the garden, wall and window at the front of what was the alley, and it's now all one insulated and waterproof 'dwelling'
Idea was they would share the kitchen but have their own living rooms and bedrooms & bathroom.
Then the boyfriend drops dead before the wedding, the 2 spinsters sell up, the people who buy it next use it as one large bungalow, what was the original living room is now a dining room, the living room is in what was the garage, a home office space in what was the bedroom behind the garage, they added a conservatory behind the office and so on.
To me it's just a massive waste of space, i don't need a dining room so that will be my living room, and the whole half of the place after the kitchen would be unused.
So one day i want to repurpose what was the garage as a hobby workshop, i will not be putting garage doors back in and will never have a vehicle in there, so there will just be 2 normal house door sized ways in and out, one from the kitchen and the other to what was the office space (which would be my electronics and crafting room) and from there patio doors go to a conservatory then out into the garden.
Everything will be purely hobby related, i will never do anything for money nor have any kind of business use, i just like to make things for myself, and having ADHD i have a lot of hobbies that i switch between.
But i've read that building control / planning and insurance do not like attached garages, i guess from the risk of parking a petrol car in there and having a leak / fumes etc coming into the house, and fire risks etc?
What's the situation for a hobby workshop?
i want to have my lathe and milling machine plus other metal working tools in there... and also my mig and tig welder, i want to make a seperated welding and grinding room out of about 1/3rd of the space, the walls of this would be double thickness plasterboard, i'd do the same to the ceiling and other walls for fire resistance.
I'd fit a fire rated door between the kitchen and workshop, and i think i will need to do some work in the attic, i know there's a small man sized crawling hole in the brickwork that electrical wires and heating pipes goes through what was the gable end of the garage.
The floor is raised by about 75mm so there's a step up from the kitchen into the 'living room/ workshop to be', i guess there's a concrete floor from the garage, and they put down insulation and those green tongue and groove floor 'boards'
I like the idea of a heated and well insulated workshop, but i will remove the floor insulation if needs' be, i hope the original concrete floor is still there... tho i have read that that may need to be lowered... but again, is this from the flammable vapour situation of a garage with a car parked in it?
it originally had a separate double garage that is now a joined on habitable space.
The story goes that 2 old spinsters lived here, one of them got a boyfriend and planned to get married but the sisters still wanted to still live together, so the garage was converted into a 2nd living room, an extension was built on the back of the garage / living room, to be the couples bedroom with an en-suite bathroom, the kitchen end wall taken down and the roof extended from the garage to join the main bungalow,
back doors put in where the alley between the old garage and bungalow exited into the garden, wall and window at the front of what was the alley, and it's now all one insulated and waterproof 'dwelling'
Idea was they would share the kitchen but have their own living rooms and bedrooms & bathroom.
Then the boyfriend drops dead before the wedding, the 2 spinsters sell up, the people who buy it next use it as one large bungalow, what was the original living room is now a dining room, the living room is in what was the garage, a home office space in what was the bedroom behind the garage, they added a conservatory behind the office and so on.
To me it's just a massive waste of space, i don't need a dining room so that will be my living room, and the whole half of the place after the kitchen would be unused.
So one day i want to repurpose what was the garage as a hobby workshop, i will not be putting garage doors back in and will never have a vehicle in there, so there will just be 2 normal house door sized ways in and out, one from the kitchen and the other to what was the office space (which would be my electronics and crafting room) and from there patio doors go to a conservatory then out into the garden.
Everything will be purely hobby related, i will never do anything for money nor have any kind of business use, i just like to make things for myself, and having ADHD i have a lot of hobbies that i switch between.
But i've read that building control / planning and insurance do not like attached garages, i guess from the risk of parking a petrol car in there and having a leak / fumes etc coming into the house, and fire risks etc?
What's the situation for a hobby workshop?
i want to have my lathe and milling machine plus other metal working tools in there... and also my mig and tig welder, i want to make a seperated welding and grinding room out of about 1/3rd of the space, the walls of this would be double thickness plasterboard, i'd do the same to the ceiling and other walls for fire resistance.
I'd fit a fire rated door between the kitchen and workshop, and i think i will need to do some work in the attic, i know there's a small man sized crawling hole in the brickwork that electrical wires and heating pipes goes through what was the gable end of the garage.
The floor is raised by about 75mm so there's a step up from the kitchen into the 'living room/ workshop to be', i guess there's a concrete floor from the garage, and they put down insulation and those green tongue and groove floor 'boards'
I like the idea of a heated and well insulated workshop, but i will remove the floor insulation if needs' be, i hope the original concrete floor is still there... tho i have read that that may need to be lowered... but again, is this from the flammable vapour situation of a garage with a car parked in it?