Integral garage conversion & ventilation

[houstonwehaveaproblem]

I have an integral garage which we have now partioned off three quarters of it to build a home office.
This leaves a small garage at the front with up & over door and the new room we have created is accesed from the outside by a single double glazed door only. (No other access)

i have read that ventilation may be required?

Can anyone advise on this.

Thanks

 

[^woody^]

A trickle vent or air brick

 

[houstonwehaveaproblem]

Can a room be vented into the garage?

 

[tony1851]

It should be vented to the open air. You might have a petrol lawnmower with a leaking fuel tank in the garage and which won't exactly provide fresh air to the office.
Put a cat flap in the door?

 

[houstonwehaveaproblem]

It should be vented to the open air. You might have a petrol lawnmower with a leaking fuel tank in the garage and which won't exactly provide fresh air to the office.
Put a cat flap in the door?

Bugger.

 

[tony1851]

No thank you.

 

[houstonwehaveaproblem]

No thank you.

 

[houstonwehaveaproblem]

Ok how about this?

Fit an extractor fan in ceiling and connect into upstairs bathroom extractor ducting?

 

[^woody^]

The requirement is for ventilation not extraction.

Why can't you just put a vent in the door, the frame or the wall and not make something which is easy, complicated?

 

[houstonwehaveaproblem]

The requirement is for ventilation not extraction.

Why can't you just put a vent in the door, the frame or the wall and not make something which is easy, complicated?

A vent in the door look ****e

Im just not gonna bother. Im not sleeping in there. Simples.

 

[^woody^]

A trickle vent is about 15mm thick! Same colour as the door or frame, and you are saying it will be so noticeable as to affect the whole aesthetic?

 

[houstonwehaveaproblem]

A trickle vent is about 15mm thick! Same colour as the door or frame, and you are saying it will be so noticeable as to affect the whole aesthetic?

Oh a trickle vent. Not a stonking great big vent in the door?

 

[Leofric]

Are you sure ventilation is the only requirement if you have created a heated office

 

[houstonwehaveaproblem]

Are you sure ventilation is the only requirement if you have created a heated office

i havent a clue

 

[^woody^]

OMG its the monster vent thread.

Listen, you need 5,000 mm² equivalent area of trickle ventilation, and rapid ventilation equivalent to 1/20th of the floor area - ie open the door.