I'm considering building a lean to at the side of our garage. At the moment it's just an open space with a fence and gate at the front leading down to the back garden. It's a really annoying shape, and not really wide enough for a shed, so thinking about just covering the whole space to the edge of the property. It's a space 2.4m wide at the front of the garage, narrowing to 1.4m by the time it reaches the back. A total length of 6.6m.
My plan is to leave the fence but pave the whole area leaving a gravel strip at the boundary. There's a small retaining wall with a drop of about 50 cm to the neighbours front garden (there house is set back further than ours). My plan was then to put in vertical supports on the boundary (against the retaining wall) and run rafters from the garage at a height of about 2.2m, which is about as high as I can go because of the soffit on the garage at 2.3m. Planned to use clear poly roofing with a gutter at the low side, making sure there's no overhang of the boundary.
I've done this type of construction before, but never against the house or boundary. I'm pretty sure I don't need PP, as it's a detached house in a standard residential estate. Not listed. Not a conservation area, etc. My only worry is the boundary retaining wall. There's a fence bolted to it at the moment, but wondered if I could run into trouble placing posts right up against it? Thanks in advance.
My plan is to leave the fence but pave the whole area leaving a gravel strip at the boundary. There's a small retaining wall with a drop of about 50 cm to the neighbours front garden (there house is set back further than ours). My plan was then to put in vertical supports on the boundary (against the retaining wall) and run rafters from the garage at a height of about 2.2m, which is about as high as I can go because of the soffit on the garage at 2.3m. Planned to use clear poly roofing with a gutter at the low side, making sure there's no overhang of the boundary.
I've done this type of construction before, but never against the house or boundary. I'm pretty sure I don't need PP, as it's a detached house in a standard residential estate. Not listed. Not a conservation area, etc. My only worry is the boundary retaining wall. There's a fence bolted to it at the moment, but wondered if I could run into trouble placing posts right up against it? Thanks in advance.
I was planning to use the twin wall stuff. It's more expensive, but I won't need that much. The whole roof will be less than 14 sq/m. Thanks for the tip. I'll have a look at the fibreglass stuff as well.
