Hi. We're making changes at the front of the house, ie getting rid of all block paving apart from the actual drive . Plan is to gravel and plant and create a sleeper and gravel path .
This square extra section of paving in front of the front door matches the drive whereas what we've taken up was different blocks.We've left it in place at the moment but we're not sure if it's staying.
We want to change the step to the front door and will also be getting a new front door. It's a 60s "gable front facing " house and we want to change to a less fussy door set in the middle of the opening with lights at either side.
We want to make the front door and access to it more aesthetically pleasing and practical.
1. We don't like the high / deep step over created by the cill and door frame
I'm presuming that the horrible vertical UPVC cladding is covering brick and doesn't need to be there
2. We're concerned that the step is breaching the DPC
3. The step's too shallow especially given that the sill sticks out so far. It's a trip hazard
4. There's no slope on the step for drainage and as it's NW facing it's lethal in icy/ snowy weather.
Stupid question maybe , but I can't work out why it was built this way ?
Seems we could only take the door frame down to the inside floor level by removing a course of bricks and I assume that's not feasible because of the DPC height, or is it?
This square extra section of paving in front of the front door matches the drive whereas what we've taken up was different blocks.We've left it in place at the moment but we're not sure if it's staying.
We want to change the step to the front door and will also be getting a new front door. It's a 60s "gable front facing " house and we want to change to a less fussy door set in the middle of the opening with lights at either side.
We want to make the front door and access to it more aesthetically pleasing and practical.
1. We don't like the high / deep step over created by the cill and door frame
I'm presuming that the horrible vertical UPVC cladding is covering brick and doesn't need to be there
2. We're concerned that the step is breaching the DPC
3. The step's too shallow especially given that the sill sticks out so far. It's a trip hazard
4. There's no slope on the step for drainage and as it's NW facing it's lethal in icy/ snowy weather.
Stupid question maybe , but I can't work out why it was built this way ?
Seems we could only take the door frame down to the inside floor level by removing a course of bricks and I assume that's not feasible because of the DPC height, or is it?