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Hi guys and thank you for this amazing forum of help and inspiration, I am hoping a few great night have some ideas on best practice for my solution.
So we inherited the rather thrown together lean to (pictured).
As we simply cannot afford to and don't own the house to justify spending to have it replaced, I wanted to try and fix it up for my wife.
Sadly she was recently diagnosed with brain cancer and loves the garden, so I'm going to do my best in the cheap, beg borrow and ok, not steal but do my best to make it a nice recovery area for her while having treatment.
Anyway enough of the sob story, we have a project to get my head around.
So the roof is tragic and as you might see, the patio doors are smashed (replacement French doors pictured)
So the new doors are excellent quality and reinforced internally.
You might notice that the "wooden lintel?" Is twisted, so that's got to go anyway.
Can the rafters sit directly on the frame of the new French doors?
I guess that depends on what I intend to do with the roof, so going back quickly to the French doors I got them from Facebook cheap and while the width is bang on identical to the old patio doors, the height is around 150mm taller, meaning my roof will sound half the angle of slope, but there will be some drop off. Height difference after new doors of around 150mm
The old Window on the right might have to stay unless I can find a cheap one on Facebook by luck, I will have to lay I think a course of bricks or 2 above that window to equal the height of the new doors
From research this means I'm going to have to deck the roof with something like 18mm osb3, ply etc. No problems.
However if I do have to install a lintel then that will most likely lose the majority of the slope, I'm estimating I have around 150mm above the French doors before the roof will be almost level.
Ok on to roof type.
Options so far are, corrugated bitumen panels or felt, but I'm guessing that felt would be heavy if not needed to have to walk on to fit?
Any other ideas I'm all ears and a nice thank you in advance for any help offered
So we inherited the rather thrown together lean to (pictured).
As we simply cannot afford to and don't own the house to justify spending to have it replaced, I wanted to try and fix it up for my wife.
Sadly she was recently diagnosed with brain cancer and loves the garden, so I'm going to do my best in the cheap, beg borrow and ok, not steal but do my best to make it a nice recovery area for her while having treatment.
Anyway enough of the sob story, we have a project to get my head around.
So the roof is tragic and as you might see, the patio doors are smashed (replacement French doors pictured)
So the new doors are excellent quality and reinforced internally.
You might notice that the "wooden lintel?" Is twisted, so that's got to go anyway.
Can the rafters sit directly on the frame of the new French doors?
I guess that depends on what I intend to do with the roof, so going back quickly to the French doors I got them from Facebook cheap and while the width is bang on identical to the old patio doors, the height is around 150mm taller, meaning my roof will sound half the angle of slope, but there will be some drop off. Height difference after new doors of around 150mm
The old Window on the right might have to stay unless I can find a cheap one on Facebook by luck, I will have to lay I think a course of bricks or 2 above that window to equal the height of the new doors
From research this means I'm going to have to deck the roof with something like 18mm osb3, ply etc. No problems.
However if I do have to install a lintel then that will most likely lose the majority of the slope, I'm estimating I have around 150mm above the French doors before the roof will be almost level.
Ok on to roof type.
Options so far are, corrugated bitumen panels or felt, but I'm guessing that felt would be heavy if not needed to have to walk on to fit?
Any other ideas I'm all ears and a nice thank you in advance for any help offered