Hello
I’m wondering if anyone can cast any light on a problem I may have with my project.
I have a detached house with an attached single garage which I’m hoping to convert into a playroom/utility room.
To save having to move gas and electric and form a new opening for access from the house into the garage, the plan is to access this from a side door off kitchen which currently leads to the drive. In order to do this it would mean extending the garage out no more than 1 metre.
At the moment the existing garage roof is already continued right to where we wish to extend out to and this is also supported by a brick arch. I was hoping to simply brick up the arch and infill the extended part of the garage with the existing garage door so that it looks exactly as it is, just forward a little. Obviously it would all need insulting etc on the inside
The problem is, to the side of the brick arch is a manhole and a drain serving our downstairs toilet and next doors main bathroom feeds into this man hole.
Am I right in thinking foundations will be required for the infilling and therefore this will mean they’ll need to be taken down to drain invert level which I know is 1.2 metres?
Really wracking my brains on this as it’s such a small load and the arch structure is already there. I have uploaded some photos to explain.
Last week I submitted an enquiry to the water authority so hoping they are accommodating.
Also, the drain then runs downstream on the same line into our back garden and there’s a second manhole there so rodding etc could easily still be achieved on this drain and of course both manholes would still be accessible. It’s more the foundations for the little we need to come out that’s causing an issue.
Thanks so much for any help.
I’m wondering if anyone can cast any light on a problem I may have with my project.
I have a detached house with an attached single garage which I’m hoping to convert into a playroom/utility room.
To save having to move gas and electric and form a new opening for access from the house into the garage, the plan is to access this from a side door off kitchen which currently leads to the drive. In order to do this it would mean extending the garage out no more than 1 metre.
At the moment the existing garage roof is already continued right to where we wish to extend out to and this is also supported by a brick arch. I was hoping to simply brick up the arch and infill the extended part of the garage with the existing garage door so that it looks exactly as it is, just forward a little. Obviously it would all need insulting etc on the inside
The problem is, to the side of the brick arch is a manhole and a drain serving our downstairs toilet and next doors main bathroom feeds into this man hole.
Am I right in thinking foundations will be required for the infilling and therefore this will mean they’ll need to be taken down to drain invert level which I know is 1.2 metres?
Really wracking my brains on this as it’s such a small load and the arch structure is already there. I have uploaded some photos to explain.
Last week I submitted an enquiry to the water authority so hoping they are accommodating.
Also, the drain then runs downstream on the same line into our back garden and there’s a second manhole there so rodding etc could easily still be achieved on this drain and of course both manholes would still be accessible. It’s more the foundations for the little we need to come out that’s causing an issue.
Thanks so much for any help.
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