My house is on the market but I don’t see it selling any time soon. As I need some more space I am contemplating converting my detached garage to an office at minimal cost and as temporary as possible in case a buyer wants to convert it back. I also want to partition off the rear of the garage with a stud wall so it can be used as a store room.
I believe my house was built in about 1982 and used as the show house, the detached garage was the sales office. It is brick built and has a pitched roof. Inside it has a painted celling and some walls are plastered and wallpapered so I’m hoping a conversion back to an office could be done fairly easily.
My question is the damp course seems to run above the floor level inside, is this bad news? Around the edge of the door I can see polythene beneath the cement floor. When it was built as an office in 82 by Wimpey homes would building regs mean they'd have done a half decent job and is there anything else I should check for?
Thanks
I believe my house was built in about 1982 and used as the show house, the detached garage was the sales office. It is brick built and has a pitched roof. Inside it has a painted celling and some walls are plastered and wallpapered so I’m hoping a conversion back to an office could be done fairly easily.
My question is the damp course seems to run above the floor level inside, is this bad news? Around the edge of the door I can see polythene beneath the cement floor. When it was built as an office in 82 by Wimpey homes would building regs mean they'd have done a half decent job and is there anything else I should check for?
Thanks