Hi all,
I would like to extend my garage in width by approximately 0.8m to add much needed storage space inside. This extension would only be on one side of the garage, extending on top of the stone boundary wall that separates my elevated land from the neighbours.
I have written agreement from the neighbours that they absolutely agree for us to do this as we get along great.
Currently you can see below that my garage has an unused area to the left hand side of it (see below pic). This unused area is approximately 1.5m when measured from the outer brick wall of the garage to the outer edge of the stone that the boundary wall is constructed from.
The boundary wall is an extremely solid stone wall around 5ft high. Basically my drive and garage stand 5ft higher than the neighbours.
For me to build directly on top of the existing stone, my thoughts were drilling down into the stone wall at multiple points along the full distance and knocking 20mm steel rod into the top of the stone acting like a dowel, then laying concrete blocks on top of the steel rod and concreting the bottom course in, to act as a strong 'foundation' as such. Once this was done, I would pour regular concrete to form the floor which would be to the right hand side of the bottom course which will re-enforce the bottom course that are also steel doweled.
After this the plan was to just lay blocks in the regular fashion whilst double skinning every 2m back to give vertical support.
Can anyone offer advice on the above, is there any better ways to do it?
Thanks in advance,
I would like to extend my garage in width by approximately 0.8m to add much needed storage space inside. This extension would only be on one side of the garage, extending on top of the stone boundary wall that separates my elevated land from the neighbours.
I have written agreement from the neighbours that they absolutely agree for us to do this as we get along great.
Currently you can see below that my garage has an unused area to the left hand side of it (see below pic). This unused area is approximately 1.5m when measured from the outer brick wall of the garage to the outer edge of the stone that the boundary wall is constructed from.
The boundary wall is an extremely solid stone wall around 5ft high. Basically my drive and garage stand 5ft higher than the neighbours.
For me to build directly on top of the existing stone, my thoughts were drilling down into the stone wall at multiple points along the full distance and knocking 20mm steel rod into the top of the stone acting like a dowel, then laying concrete blocks on top of the steel rod and concreting the bottom course in, to act as a strong 'foundation' as such. Once this was done, I would pour regular concrete to form the floor which would be to the right hand side of the bottom course which will re-enforce the bottom course that are also steel doweled.
After this the plan was to just lay blocks in the regular fashion whilst double skinning every 2m back to give vertical support.
Can anyone offer advice on the above, is there any better ways to do it?
Thanks in advance,
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