Upwards Garage Extension

Freddy · Mar 18, 2018

Hiya Ricky.

ricky101 said: ↑
Hi Freddy

Assume you mean you want a habitable ground floor as well as the new first floor ?

The first thing you need to establish is the size of the footings, which means digging down on the outside to expose and measure its depth and to some degree its width.

Depending on what you find you will need professional advice as to what loading the existing footings can take.

Until you do that anything else is irrelevant .

If the builders were taking short cuts or the garage footings were not part of the house footings pour they might be much smaller to take the load of the garage only.

Also the garage floor, is it just a concrete slab on the ground without any damp proof or insulation ? a problem to overcome if its not.

Are you intending to do all the build yourself ?
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No, the garage would remain as is on the ground floor. I would assume details of the footings and the build would be available from my local authority as I know I it went through planning, and therefore building regs would have applied?
As I said, this isn’t under serious consideration at the moment, just something I might want to pursue in the future.
No, I wouldn’t want to do the work myself, it’s bad enough just hanging a door!

JWK · Mar 18, 2018

Freddy said: ↑
I would assume details of the footings and the build would be available from my local authority as I know I it went through planning, and therefore building regs would have applied?
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You might be able to see you Building Regs plans if you call into the council they should show the details of cavities etc. I would ring first just in case they have funny hours or don't keep them on-site. I went in to see my old Planning Permission plans and had to book a microfiche reader. Also what was planned may not be what the builder actually did, the council should have inspected the foundations when they were dug and after they were poured.

Might be quicker and easier to get your drill out ...

pete said: ↑
If I was looking for a cavity, I'd drill a hole
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