Garage Conversions in Longbenton

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.

It depends on the address. The authority is North Tyneside Council even though the area reads as Newcastle on most maps, and that determines which building control team the application goes to. We check the designation before any design work goes far enough to be expensive to change.

We do. Killingworth, Newcastle upon Tyne, Wallsend are all within our normal working area for garage conversions, as is most of Tyne and Wear, County Durham and south east Northumberland.

Yes. Workmanship is guaranteed for an agreed period confirmed in writing before work begins.

Yes, and it is worth knowing early. The area sits over worked coal measures like most of north Tyneside, and inter war foundations are typically shallower than a modern equivalent, which matters when a new extension foundation meets an old one. Where that applies we say so before you commit, not once the trench is open.

It is North Tyneside Council. People sometimes send paperwork to a neighbouring authority because of the postal address or the historic county, and that costs time rather than money. For garage conversions you will need building regulations approval covering insulation, damp proofing, ventilation and fire separation.

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.

Yes, every time. The room is becoming habitable space, so floor and wall insulation, damp proofing, ventilation, natural light and, on an integral garage, fire separation from the rest of the house all have to be shown to comply.

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.

Everything from inter war and immediate post war semis and terraces across the estate through to later infill and regeneration housing around Benton and Forest Hall. Which of those you have changes the method more than the postcode does, which is why we look before we quote.