Hi First post (although I have gleaned loads of useful info from loitering in the background) hopefully in the right place.
I live in a terraced house, with a single story extension to the rear original to the house, covering half the width of the house. Neighbours property is the same only their extension is 2 storey.
Between the 2 extensions is our yard, a potentially useful, but currently damp, inhospitable place.
I want to roof this area and build a wall to enclose it. Roof and wall mostly glazed, so should be considered a conservatory. It will be basically a large porch to be used for storage. Not heated, or even wired.
The concrete yard surface is currently about a foot lower than the house floor level so I would plan on constructing a suspended floor to bring the outside level up.
The span from wall to wall is approx 2.6m.
Would it be okay to use joist hangers bolted to the walls (or a wall plate on each wall) to span this distance for the floor, and a similar arrangement for the roof to support rafters (3.75m approx) from the rear of the house, so both the floor and roof are self supporting. Due to drains under the yard any sort of foundation would be difficult at the wall end so I was hoping to build a light stud walled end wall not intended to support the roof.
I currently am waiting to hear if I need PP as although it would stop 1m short of the current extensions it would be over 3m. and I do realise I would have to get the neighbours approval re: attaching to the party wall.
Hope that all made sense.
Any advice would be appreciated.
I live in a terraced house, with a single story extension to the rear original to the house, covering half the width of the house. Neighbours property is the same only their extension is 2 storey.
Between the 2 extensions is our yard, a potentially useful, but currently damp, inhospitable place.
I want to roof this area and build a wall to enclose it. Roof and wall mostly glazed, so should be considered a conservatory. It will be basically a large porch to be used for storage. Not heated, or even wired.
The concrete yard surface is currently about a foot lower than the house floor level so I would plan on constructing a suspended floor to bring the outside level up.
The span from wall to wall is approx 2.6m.
Would it be okay to use joist hangers bolted to the walls (or a wall plate on each wall) to span this distance for the floor, and a similar arrangement for the roof to support rafters (3.75m approx) from the rear of the house, so both the floor and roof are self supporting. Due to drains under the yard any sort of foundation would be difficult at the wall end so I was hoping to build a light stud walled end wall not intended to support the roof.
I currently am waiting to hear if I need PP as although it would stop 1m short of the current extensions it would be over 3m. and I do realise I would have to get the neighbours approval re: attaching to the party wall.
Hope that all made sense.
Any advice would be appreciated.