Convert a garage home extension: Garage conversions are a great way to increase the floor space in your home. Cars today are generally a little too wide for most garages to make it easy to park a car in every night so generally people use the garage to store unwanted items. Garages are in the perfect place in the home to convert into useful rooms. Convert a garage and make a study where the children can complete homework and you can safely supervise their Internet surfing. Convert a garage to a home office, gym, bedroom or dining room the possibilities are endless the additional room will be very useful.

Convert a garage improves natural daylight: Using glazed doors between the new room and the house will improve the natural daylight in most homes. Often the hallway has a front door at one end and internal doors into other rooms. Installing a set of glazed French double doors open the whole hose up and brightens the hallway. Remember you must install the correct lintels to support the brickwork above the new door openings.

Convert a garage properly: Having your garage conversion done properly is very important done correctly and they add good value to your home. Done poorly and they become a liability and don’t add value to your home. Everyone wants the job done properly the garage conversion starts with removing the old garage door, adding a window and filling in the surrounding area. Sounds simple but to do the job correctly there are three ways to support the walls, which is acceptable with the local authority building control department. First way is to excavate the floor between the two pillars and expose the footings of the existing garage pillars and pour a new concrete footing. Second way is to excavate the floor and install two reinforced concrete lintels onto the existing footings. Third way is to install a steel cavity lintel onto the brickwork below ground level. Obviously damp proof membranes need to be installed in the correct position. The brickwork can be flush built using crocodile stainless steel fixings but the better job is always to have the bricks fully toothed.

Convert a garage matching the bricks: Matching the bricks of the existing house is always difficult homeowners have to understand that the bricks on their home have been weathered and as such will have changed the colour and texture of the brick. Specialist brick matching companies have for many years been producing brick matches. Vogue garage conversion surveyors always do the best brick match available. We also have an additional service where we can colour coat the bricks of an elevation with special brick dust and dye to ensure one hundred percent brick match. The mortar is then colour dyed to match the house. Every customer who has this service can’t believe the standards achieved.