Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Aug 31, 2009 3:36 pm Hi all, I currently have a fully renovated Edwardian (white w/board) in Melbourne's inner-North, on a 15x50sqm block. On the east side is the driveway , which ends in a single garage about 3/4 of the way towards the rear of the house. The rear of the garage opens into a double-length carport, so in total there's room for 3 cars, all parked in single file of course. We're thinking of demolishing the garage/carport, and extending the driveway all the way to a double-garage in the back corner of our property. This begs some questions: How big is a "normal" double garage? 6m x 6m perhaps? Can i build a garage right on the boundary? (i.e. make the garage walls the fence?) There's a right-of-way behind us, so i'd probably put garage doors in on both sides for future-proofing. What materials should we use? I don't think our budget would stretch to brick, I heard someone say a brick double-garage can cost ~ $40k. But i'm not sure how a metal garage would look on a block with a high-quality period weatherboard house. Are there other choices? Such as rendering some kind of board so it looks like rendered brick, but cheaper? Re: Advice needed on a new double garage. 2Aug 31, 2009 5:02 pm Providing you are not building over any easements, there shouldn't be a problem with building a garage on the boundary. Once your drawings have been finalised, the building surveyor would let you know if you have any issues with neighbouring properties. If the garage will be near a neighbouring property, an Engineer would have to check for any underpinning that may be required. I would classify a standard garage as being 6x6, although some display homes have them as 5.5 wide x 6 deep. To me, this is too narrow to fit two cars comfortably. I couldn't see a brick garage costing 40k. I worked out a rough cost of about $25k for a double brick garage. Edited to add: My 25k was building costs only, and didn't cover plans, permits, insurance, etc (probably should have mentioned that ). I would probably also up the 25k to 30k, to allow for builder's margins and "contingency". Looking at it again and adding the fees, permits and stuff, $35k-40k all up would probably be a reasonable figure to build a double brick garage. I was using a flat metal roof in my estimate by the way. Blog is now up - http://www.jbdave.blogspot.com/ Re: Advice needed on a new double garage. 3Aug 31, 2009 5:19 pm Thanks. Actually I remembered where I saw that price, it was on this forum: viewtopic.php?t=526 builda Pricing is dependent on what you want and how it is built etc but we have done a couple recently on existing blocks after demolishing the old garage (asbestos etc) and the pricing ranged from $40,000 to $60,000. Both were doubles (one was a bit smaller) with tile roofs. FC sheeting is a bit cheaper for sure but not if you get carried away and start acrylic rendering etc. Building Standards; Getting It Right! Long story short, a toilet room is going to back onto our main bedroom and I want to make it close to soundproof. Im going to build two frames (pretty much a room within a… 0 10217 Hi, Apologies - I know there is plenty out there on this but struggling to put together the puzzle. We're planning our garage/external laundry to master bedroom and… 0 11121 Hi All, I engaged a tradie to install concrete retaining wall 600-800mm high over 32 meters in Victoria. Sleepers are 200*75*2000 mm installed over 17 steel posts. I… 0 6917 |