Garage Ceiling

[EssexO]

Hi All,

Have a new build semi where the garage is detached from my house but connected to next doors garage (which is attached to their house).

The garage Ceiling is plasterboard and the brick dividing wall stops at ceiling height, making the 'loft area' open across two garages if you remove a panel of the plasterboard.

Firstly is this an OK build from the developer (from a fire reg/security prospective)? Secondly would I need to do to be able to utilise this roof space for light storage?

Any advice appreciated

 

[oldbutnotdead]

Not continuing the dividing wall up to the apex is a bit shoddy but acceptable since the separation is to a garage rather than to a habitable room and since (presumably) the design has plasterboard ceilings in both garages. Good odds the woodwork is engineered trusses (clue is lots of very skinny looking bits of timber) so a cost saving to the builder by stopping the centre wall at ceiling height.

If you're going to open up the ceiling so you can store stuff up there then you need to put some sort of barrier between you and next door (double skin plasterboard would do it), there probably won't be much spare capacity in the timber for storage- a few suitcases and lengths of timber won't hurt but don't start stashing washing machines and pig iron up there.