Prefabricated garages: a buyer's guide

A prefabricated garage is a building manufactured in a factory as interlocking concrete sections, then delivered and assembled on a concrete base at your home, usually in around a day. Nucrete has been manufacturing prefabricated garages in Bradford for over 45 years, with every price including VAT, delivery and installation.

The walls are cast as reinforced concrete panels in our Bradford factory, under controlled conditions rather than in a wet British garden. On installation day our own teams bolt the panels together on your prepared base, fit the roof and door, and hand you the keys, for most standard garages that's around a day's work. Factory manufacture is why prefabricated garages cost so much less than brick: the labour happens once, on a production line, instead of brick-by-brick on site.

Because the buildings are made from standard panels, sizes run in regular steps. Widths run from 8'5" up to 20'5" depending on the range, and lengths from around 6'3" for a small garden store up to 22'3" and beyond for a long workshop, with larger and bespoke combinations available. The right size is worth getting right first time: measure your car with its doors open, add your storage, and then be honest about what else will end up in there.

In short: a prefabricated garage is a building manufactured in a factory as interlocking reinforced concrete sections, then delivered and assembled on a concrete base at your home, usually in around a day. The walls are cast under controlled factory conditions rather than in a wet British garden, and on installation day the panels are bolted together on the prepared base and the roof and door fitted. That is why prefabricated garages cost so much less than brick: the labour happens once on a production line instead of brick by brick on site. Nucrete has manufactured prefabricated garages in Bradford for over 45 years, supplying around 1,100 buildings a year and installing them with its own teams. Buildings come in apex form, with a pitched roof and a central ridge giving extra storage height, and pent form, with a single slope that keeps the profile lower for height-restricted sites. They need a sound, level concrete slab slightly larger than the building, which Nucrete can lay as part of the job, and they last decades with minimal maintenance under a 10-year structural factory guarantee. Every price includes VAT, delivery and installation, and varies by delivery postcode area because installation is part of it.