Lean To - Idea/Cost

[PeterJSanford]

Hello everyone,

Last year purchased a property, finally after getting the inside finished is time to work on the outside of the property.

Below is a picture of the front. I want to place a larger wooden door there, brick to the side and an angled roof. The won't be any back to the lean to, it's purely the front and sides I want doing. It's mostly to tidy up the front of the property and to store wood for the stove and the bins.

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• PeterJSanford
• 7 Apr 2015
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It would go roughly 2 to 2.5 meters in length.

Anyone have a rough cost? Is in Oxfordshire.

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

£5-10K

 

[PeterJSanford]

£5-10K

For this sort of build then, do I need to get foundations laid, etc?

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Well you could try building a brick wall on the earth but it probably wouldn't be very stable would it?

 

[PeterJSanford]

Well you could try building a brick wall on the earth but it probably wouldn't be very stable would it?

The picture isn't overly clear, sorry.

The is already a brick wall to the right side that's 4 feet high. I was thinking of building up on that instead?

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Doubtful it would be any use, prolly has no suitable foundation, is it on boundary, who owns it?

 

[joe-90]

A lightweight structure would have less weight than three people sitting on it. Just build it.

 

[PeterJSanford]

Doubtful it would be any use, prolly has no suitable foundation, is it on boundary, who owns it?

The boundary is about a foot to the right of it, I own the wall, the fence is on the boundary line.

Double brick, 2 meters by 4 meters puts me at needing around 1300. So that's what £350 for those bricks. The front will be a gate say £150. Along with the bricks for the front which is say another 400 at maybe £150.

The roof is going to be maybe £1500 for the entire thing? Looking at it online (quick quote I got for the size from a company). I don't see how I am going to be paying 6k for a brick layer and foundations if they are even needed? And even then they won't be overly deep for this type of structure. You're talking what 1 meter deep since the right side will be about 2 meters in height?