CHAPTER01
What they bought
A redundant commercial garage unit. Single-skin walls, industrial roller doors, concrete slab floor, no insulation, no domestic services to speak of. The opposite of a home.
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Local Authority Work · Stoke-on-Trent
Commercial garage to two-bedroom home · now a children's home
A redundant commercial garage unit converted into a two-bedroom bungalow, and later taken on by an operator who runs it as a children's home. The building work is ours. Running the home is theirs.
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02Project · Snapshot
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Project · Snapshot
The shape of the build in numbers.
A redundant commercial garage unit taken from commercial use to a two-bedroom bungalow: insulated, partitioned, serviced and finished as a home. The building was later taken on by an operator who runs it as a children's home. It is worth saying why that route matters, because most builders never see it. Converting a building for this kind of end use sits close to HMO work: the same questions about fire separation, room sizes, escape and services, asked by a different inspector. HYPE does the buildings side. Running it, staffing it and everything regulatory belongs to the operator.
2 bedCommercial unit to a self-contained home
Change of useCommercial to residential
Operator-runNow a children's home
FilmedDocumented through the build
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↳ 03 The story
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Project · The Story
How the build actually ran.
The same three questions we ask every project: what they bought, what we did, what changed. Honest. Specific. No marketing fluff.
CHAPTER02
What we did
The building work behind the move from commercial to residential use: a full conversion into a two-bedroom bungalow. The industrial frontage came out. Floor, walls and roof insulated. Internal stud partitions to form the layout. New kitchen, new bathroom, new utility. Garden boundary made safe.
CHAPTER03
What changed
An empty commercial unit became a home. It is now run as a children's home by its operator.
For anyone weighing up the same move: this end use asks the same kinds of questions an HMO conversion asks, about fire separation, room sizes, escape and services. It is a route we know how to build for. What we do not do is run it, staff it or register it. That is the operator's world, and any builder who tells you otherwise is selling you something.
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↳ 04 The build, stage by stage
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Local Authority Work · Stoke-on-Trent
From back-to-brick to handover.
A redundant commercial garage unit taken from commercial use to a two-bedroom bungalow: insulated, partitioned, serviced and finished as a home. The building was later taken on by an operator who runs it as a children's home. It is worth saying why that route matters, because most builders never see it. Converting a building for this kind of end use sits close to HMO work: the same questions about fire separation, room sizes, escape and services, asked by a different inspector. HYPE does the buildings side. Running it, staffing it and everything regulatory belongs to the operator.
Stage 01 / 04Before
Commercial garage as found
Single-storey commercial garage unit. Industrial roller doors. Single-skin masonry on the perimeter walls. Concrete slab floor with no DPC. No insulation, no domestic plumbing.
The brief on day one: you can't make a building like this into a home without taking it back to a shell. The honest scope conversation up-front is what protected the programme later.
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Stage 02 / 04Mid-build
Stud partitions, insulation, first fix.
Industrial frontage gone. Insulation in. Stud partitions up to form the two-bedroom layout. Plasterboard going on.
This is the stage where the building shifts from "commercial unit" to "home". The structural decisions are quiet, they just have to be right. None of it looks like much in a photograph, and all of it is what the finish sits on.
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Stage 03 / 04Complete
Finished · the completed home.
Plaster, paint, second-fix electrics, second-fix plumbing, sanitaryware, kitchen, flooring, garden made safe. The building reads as a home, not a converted garage. That's the point.
Finishes are deliberately calm, mid-range, and durable. Easy-clean surfaces, hard-wearing flooring. None of it dressed up to look like more than it is.
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Stage 04 / 04After
Before vs. after.
Commercial garage to a finished two-bedroom home, now run by its operator as a children's home.
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On camera · Watch the build
On camera.
Every HYPE build is documented on camera. The videos from this project sit at the top. Below them: three of John’s most-watched videos from HypeTV.
More from HypeTV
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