Hello,
When I moved into my house which has an adjoining garage, the back garden patio area has steps down (approx 1.5m deep overall) immediately to the rear of the house to a doorway that leads into the garage. I later bricked up the doorway into the garage and installed decking over the hole left by the stairway. This levelled the patio overall and gave more space. I then got the garage wall rendered and installed french doors. (see pics). This was about 6 years ago.
Now I'd like to remove the decking, fill the hole and slab the whole patio. My question is around how to treat the walls of the house/garage (currently exposed in the old 1.5m deep stairwell) that will become 'below ground' once I fill the hole - they are not engineering bricks just facing bricks. I'm thinking of painting on a bitumen product onto the facing bricks then building a small retaining wall in front in engineering bricks with a damp proof membrane lapped behind it against the house/garage walls? Then filling in the hole with earth and slabbing over the top.
Is that the right way to go to avoid future problems?
Any help/advice you can provide would be really appreciated.
Thanks
Mark
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When I moved into my house which has an adjoining garage, the back garden patio area has steps down (approx 1.5m deep overall) immediately to the rear of the house to a doorway that leads into the garage. I later bricked up the doorway into the garage and installed decking over the hole left by the stairway. This levelled the patio overall and gave more space. I then got the garage wall rendered and installed french doors. (see pics). This was about 6 years ago.
Now I'd like to remove the decking, fill the hole and slab the whole patio. My question is around how to treat the walls of the house/garage (currently exposed in the old 1.5m deep stairwell) that will become 'below ground' once I fill the hole - they are not engineering bricks just facing bricks. I'm thinking of painting on a bitumen product onto the facing bricks then building a small retaining wall in front in engineering bricks with a damp proof membrane lapped behind it against the house/garage walls? Then filling in the hole with earth and slabbing over the top.
Is that the right way to go to avoid future problems?
Any help/advice you can provide would be really appreciated.
Thanks
Mark
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