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Building a dry stone garage

  • 04-06-2014 12:16PM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 51 ✭✭


    Hi,
    I am bidding on a house on Co Mayo and as part of my budget for buying I need to build a garage. I want something very traditional that won't look out of place in an area where obtaining planning permission may be difficult.

    I would really like to build a dry stone garage reminiscent of traditional farm out buildings with a corrugated roof. We will get some proper plans drawn up but I'm expecting it to be 4.5m wide by 10m long. I also would like a loft area accessed with external stone steps very much in the same style as an old farm building.

    My question is...

    1. Does this sound feasible?
    2. Does anyone have a clue on how much something like this would cost per sqr mtr.
    3. Has anyone on here any experience of something like this.

    Thanks


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,179 ✭✭✭kieran.


    MedusaV8 wrote: »
    Hi,
    I am bidding on a house on Co Mayo and as part of my budget for buying I need to build a garage. I want something very traditional that won't look out of place in an area where obtaining planning permission may be difficult.

    I would really like to build a dry stone garage reminiscent of traditional farm out buildings with a corrugated roof. We will get some proper plans drawn up but I'm expecting it to be 4.5m wide by 10m long. I also would like a loft area accessed with external stone steps very much in the same style as an old farm building.

    My question is...

    1. Does this sound feasible?
    2. Does anyone have a clue on how much something like this would cost per sqr mtr.
    3. Has anyone on here any experience of something like this.

    Thanks


    Thats 90m²/968 sq ft of floors space thats a lot even in a rural setting you may have to justify the need for such as size to the Planning authourity during the planning process

    A very rough costing for 300mm cavity wall internal + 200mm dry stone cladding, pointed internal finish, with timber joist/plywood first floor concrete ground floor would be Circa €60,000.


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