Evening
We are currently planning to build a balcony from the rear of our house.
The balcony is approx 6m wide x 2m deep going back to the house. It is to be supported at the rear from the gable of the house.
At the front there is to be a vertical timber support at each corner with a laminated timber beam in between. The vertical supports are to be 150mm x 150mm timber.
We had to put in a new footing for one of the vertical supports.
I dug down into the soil ( which drains very well - no clay ) so that the top of the concrete footing was 220mm below ground level.
The actual concrete footing was formed using C35 ready mixed concrete with 2 layers of A142 mesh and measures 900mm long x 600mm wide x 225mm deep. On top of the concrete there are 2 courses of concrete blocks laid block on flat with 3:1 mortar to come up to ground level.
As this will be supporting the balcony in one corner does this footing sound adequate ?
Cheers
We are currently planning to build a balcony from the rear of our house.
The balcony is approx 6m wide x 2m deep going back to the house. It is to be supported at the rear from the gable of the house.
At the front there is to be a vertical timber support at each corner with a laminated timber beam in between. The vertical supports are to be 150mm x 150mm timber.
We had to put in a new footing for one of the vertical supports.
I dug down into the soil ( which drains very well - no clay ) so that the top of the concrete footing was 220mm below ground level.
The actual concrete footing was formed using C35 ready mixed concrete with 2 layers of A142 mesh and measures 900mm long x 600mm wide x 225mm deep. On top of the concrete there are 2 courses of concrete blocks laid block on flat with 3:1 mortar to come up to ground level.
As this will be supporting the balcony in one corner does this footing sound adequate ?
Cheers