Garage Conversions in Gateshead

Extra usable internal space normally helps, though it depends on the local market and whether off street parking is lost. A conversion with a building control completion certificate is far easier to sell than one without.

Gateshead comes under Gateshead Council for both planning and building control. That is where a building regulations application is made and where the inspector who signs the work off comes from. Building regulations approval covering insulation, damp proofing, ventilation and fire separation is what they will be looking for.

The old door and frame come out, and the existing slab is assessed. Many garage slabs sit lower than the house floor and have no damp proof membrane, so a new build up over the top is common.

We work to the approved details and attend the inspections. The application itself can be made by you or by us as agreed at the start.

All of them. Around Saltwell Park and Bensham the stock is mostly Victorian and Edwardian terraces around Bensham, Saltwell and Deckham, and further out Gateshead has later estates through Chowdene, Wrekenton and Beacon Lough. The right approach depends far more on the age and construction of the individual property than on the town.

Yes. Alongside Gateshead we regularly carry out garage conversions in Whickham, Felling, Birtley and across the wider North East, working from our base in Blaydon-on-Tyne.

Possibly, depending on exactly where the property sits. Saltwell and parts of Low Fell fall within designated conservation areas, and if that applies to your property Gateshead Council will look closely at brick, mortar colour and window detail on anything facing the street. If your property is affected, the design is shaped around that from the start rather than revised afterwards.

They can. Gateshead sits squarely in the old Durham coalfield and a good proportion of the borough falls inside a Coal Authority Development High Risk Area, which matters as soon as you are digging footings rather than working above ground. We raise it at the quote stage rather than after the digger arrives, so you know whether an investigation or an assessment is likely to be needed.

It is once it is done properly. A garage floor and walls are typically uninsulated and often damp, so the build up underneath is what decides whether the finished room is usable in January.

Yes, though a detached outbuilding conversion has different requirements from an integral one, particularly around insulation, heating and whether it is intended for occasional or habitable use.