Opening up existing garage door

[MattD1]

Hi all.

I have a quick question. I’m opening up my single garage door to fit a set of patio doors.

It’s a single skim wall but I’m a bit worried about these pillars. There’s 1 either side of the door at present but I need to cut one out to open the door up.

Looks like it’s breeze block laid flat.

Can anyone tell me if it’s safe to do so from the picture ?

The roof is a corrugated roof and there’s a timber ring beam running round the wall that the roof fixes to.

I’m opening it up approx 500mm, just a bit more than the pillar.

Thanks very much

 

[Scally-Ho]

How old is that Big Six roof?

 

[noseall]

Hi all.

I have a quick question. I’m opening up my single garage door to fit a set of patio doors.

It’s a single skim wall but I’m a bit worried about these pillars. There’s 1 either side of the door at present but I need to cut one out to open the door up.

Looks like it’s breeze block laid flat.

Can anyone tell me if it’s safe to do so from the picture ?

The roof is a corrugated roof and there’s a timber ring beam running round the wall that the roof fixes to.

I’m opening it up approx 500mm, just a bit more than the pillar.

Thanks very much

Are you going to replace the structural stability somehow once you make the opening wider? It's not easy to see what's going on without say an outside pic and some proposed lines scribbled on.

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

If someone built a big pillar there's probably a good reason they went to that expense and trouble. So the answer is that of course you can't just remove it.

As already stated, show the full extent of what's there.

Asbestos alert with that roof. If it's as old as the brickwork then it's very likely to be.

This job's about 100x more involved than you thought it was.