We have a double garage separate to the house with walls that are in pretty poor condition. The rear and one side wall have doubled as retaining walls and the lower sections have previously been DPM'd and are double skin brick. The upper walls are just single skin. The garage was built around 50 years ago and have a new, modern trussed roof added in 2005. The mortar on the two poor sides is very crumbly and there are some reasonable cracks as well.
The roof is in good condition so we're thinking of having an RSJ frame built to support the roof and then remove the existing walls. This would then allow us to build a proper retaining wall and then finally, new timber clad walls.
Has anyone done this sort of thing before? We will be using a structural engineer and a builder but more curious as to whether people think this is even a sensible approach! RSJ structures are not particularly expensive and the roof has many years of life left so seems a bit silly to demolish the whole building!
The roof is in good condition so we're thinking of having an RSJ frame built to support the roof and then remove the existing walls. This would then allow us to build a proper retaining wall and then finally, new timber clad walls.
Has anyone done this sort of thing before? We will be using a structural engineer and a builder but more curious as to whether people think this is even a sensible approach! RSJ structures are not particularly expensive and the roof has many years of life left so seems a bit silly to demolish the whole building!
