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I take your point but with lightweight blocks the weight of 250 kg say (with mortar) would be less than a car driving over the slab?

@Notch7 I'm not planning to make it habitable but I will try to follow modern insulation standards as per building regs. I'm assuming these lightweigh blocks can be rendered OK? Wickes sell Tarmac Toplite Standard as their lightweight blocks and I'm thinking of using those if they'll take...

I have a detached single leaf brick garage which I'm converting into a home office. It dates from the 1930s like the house I think. It has an up and over garage door with a solid oak(?) lintel. There are piers on either side os the opening - the left one in parallel with the front which means...