Lean to / car port / garage ideas

[JonHeath]

Hi all,

I have a bit of a dead space down the side of my house and in need of more outside storage.

I currently have a smaller workshop building as per the picture below. I want to add to that storage by building a new structure down the side of house, to utilise all that space right up to the front of the house.

My basic thoughts at the moment are:

- Take the flat roof off the current workshop
- Build a single skin wall where the fence currently is up to and in line with the front of the house
- Probably put traditional wooden garage doors on the front
- build a sloped roof off the house that incorporates both the new structure and the existing workshop
- leave existing tarmac as the floor for the new space
- another reason for the project is it’ll add protection to that room on the corner of the house. It’s a 1938 property with no cavity, so we struggle with cold/condensation on outer walls
- I might even add a door into this space off the main house

Challenges/problems:

- building up to the border. Should I just build this side of the fence and leave the fence as is? Next door
- should I build a wall at all. I could do posts and have more of a car port style space

I’ll be doing all the work myself on a modest budget.

Just looking for thoughts and input on designing this out. What would you do?

Cheers
Jon

 

[Wayners]

Build something better not an option with cavity walls.
Going to the trouble of building a wall and fitting a garage door.
Other option..
Local builder near me uses galvanised handrail - 48.3mm stuff and bolts together to make carports

 

[jamesr36]

Do bear in mind that if you attach this to the house you will need building regulation approval inc proper foundations / floor etc.

I expect a lot of people don’t do this for lean to type buildings but it is visible from the street so risky to not do this.

It also looks like the current building is right on the boundary. A sloping roof will mean the gutter will be in next door’s land.