Triple garage conversion

We are looking for dual occ opportunities. We saw a place that has an existing house and a detached enormous garage with electricity but no plumbing. Colour bond walls, roller doors, insulated colour bond roof. It must have been about 80-90 sq m.

We are asking our questions here in case there are those who know from experience.

How do you turn a colour bond garage into a 3 BR, two story brick home? We'd plan it for the same slab. But how does the plumber put in the pipes if you've already poured the slab? D they dig up parts and then reseal it?

What are cost effective ways of building a basic home....do we go to the likes of Meriton, Barrington for a ready made design, or use a private builder?

Are we on the right track to look for existing garages with the slab already poured, or is it perhaps cheaper to get a company to do it from flat lawn to lockup? We would not be doing any building ourselves.

Thanks
 
The first thing you would have to do is find out the mpa they used in the concrete. Being a shed the slab would not be substantial enough to fold the strength of a 2 storey house.

If it has suitable mpa and providing the slab is the correct depth the plumber could tench the concrete to run the pipes.

Keep in mind to make it brick veneer dwelling you have to lay foundations and footings to support brickwork.
 
How do you turn a colour bond garage into a 3 BR, two story brick home?

You don't.

Best case you can convert it into a granny flat but it still costs quite a bit to do that and it will always look like a garage.
 
Yes we've had the same idea....maybe it's easier and even cheaper to start witha level lawn coz otherwise there's a lot of undoing before the doing.

GF should be no more than 60m2. This one is a lot bigger than that.

Can you make a GF out of colour bond???? I did t know that! I thought it had to be clad or replaced say in hardiplank. If we could just convert the existing structure, using the colour bond, and just add kitchen, bathroom, insulation right thru.

Does anyone know more info about garage conversions into GF??? What permissions and what is involved and how many bedrooms?

Ta
 
Can you separate the GF from the house with a fence or does it have to be open?

Are you allowed to fence it separately to make it two private dwellings, even with a granny flat?

Ta
 
The first thing you would have to do is find out the mpa they used in the concrete. Being a shed the slab would not be substantial enough to fold the strength of a 2 storey house.

If it has suitable mpa and providing the slab is the correct depth the plumber could tench the concrete to run the pipes.

Keep in mind to make it brick veneer dwelling you have to lay foundations and footings to support brickwork.

Hiya Brian what is MPA please? What does 'tench' mean. Google said its a type of fish:eek:
 
Mpa stands for mega pascals. It is the strength measured in a concrete slab. A common strength for a house slab is between 24-32 mpa
 
My parents neighbour did this with a double colour bond garage, they just removed the roller doors and replaced with sliders, frames and gyprocked the inside and installed an ensuite and kitchen. It gets really got though
 
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