Hi All ,
I currently live in a 3 bed detached house with a detached garage adjacent. There's a gap of just a few feet between the house and garage. I'm looking into extending above the garage to add a 4th bedroom and also to join the garage to the house. Both house and garage are 25 years old and of brick construction: garage single skin and house cavity wall with blocks on the interior leaf. The ground floor would become a larger garage with utility area.
My first thought is that the garage is obviously on a raft with little or no foundations so I'm going to either need to tear down the garage completely and start again with the necessary foundations, or possibly use a steel frame sat on piles on which to support the new bit of the first floor. I'm hoping to refit the garage roof on the new first floor.
If anyone can advise whether the steel frame is a feasible solution or any other widely used alternatives to those mentioned above that would be a great help.
I've tried to keep this brief so if I've left out any important info, please let me know.
Many thanks.
P.J.
I currently live in a 3 bed detached house with a detached garage adjacent. There's a gap of just a few feet between the house and garage. I'm looking into extending above the garage to add a 4th bedroom and also to join the garage to the house. Both house and garage are 25 years old and of brick construction: garage single skin and house cavity wall with blocks on the interior leaf. The ground floor would become a larger garage with utility area.
My first thought is that the garage is obviously on a raft with little or no foundations so I'm going to either need to tear down the garage completely and start again with the necessary foundations, or possibly use a steel frame sat on piles on which to support the new bit of the first floor. I'm hoping to refit the garage roof on the new first floor.
If anyone can advise whether the steel frame is a feasible solution or any other widely used alternatives to those mentioned above that would be a great help.
I've tried to keep this brief so if I've left out any important info, please let me know.
Many thanks.
P.J.