ᐅ Building a Concrete Garage! Three Walls or an Extension to the House? What Do You Think?
Created on: 13 Jul 2018 11:00
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kingstiefel
Hello everyone,
We are building a prefabricated house in NRW with the company Scanhaus Marlow Marlow. The building permit / planning permission process is currently underway. What was already clear to us beforehand is that Scanhaus Marlow Marlow is not involved in the garage construction. Therefore, we are currently focusing quite intensively on this topic.
After thorough research, we would like to have a concrete garage. For various reasons, we decided against steel. Unfortunately, it is very difficult for us to install a prefabricated concrete garage. The garage is planned to be placed on the left side of the house, under the roof overhang. The roof overhang has a height of 3m (10 feet) and is 1.20m (4 feet) wide. For this reason, hardly any prefabricated concrete garage manufacturers can install the garage at our location. Of course, there are also concrete garage manufacturers who produce "concrete individual parts" and assemble them on site.
We have now met with an architect who is going to design and estimate a masonry garage for us. He proposed building a garage with three walls plus a roof. The fourth wall would then be the house wall. From our house planning discussions, we know that no trades or fixtures may be attached to our house. The architect explained that the house does not have to bear any load or similar, as this is supported by the three garage walls. Of course, we understand that nothing can be attached to the fourth wall (house wall). This would be acceptable to us. An advantage of this idea is that we would save the cost of an additional wall and have roughly 20cm (8 inches) more space in the garage (due to the missing extra wall).
I have never heard of such a solution before. Does anyone have experience with this?
We have concerns regarding structural engineering, insulation, etc.
We would appreciate any feedback.
Best regards
We are building a prefabricated house in NRW with the company Scanhaus Marlow Marlow. The building permit / planning permission process is currently underway. What was already clear to us beforehand is that Scanhaus Marlow Marlow is not involved in the garage construction. Therefore, we are currently focusing quite intensively on this topic.
After thorough research, we would like to have a concrete garage. For various reasons, we decided against steel. Unfortunately, it is very difficult for us to install a prefabricated concrete garage. The garage is planned to be placed on the left side of the house, under the roof overhang. The roof overhang has a height of 3m (10 feet) and is 1.20m (4 feet) wide. For this reason, hardly any prefabricated concrete garage manufacturers can install the garage at our location. Of course, there are also concrete garage manufacturers who produce "concrete individual parts" and assemble them on site.
We have now met with an architect who is going to design and estimate a masonry garage for us. He proposed building a garage with three walls plus a roof. The fourth wall would then be the house wall. From our house planning discussions, we know that no trades or fixtures may be attached to our house. The architect explained that the house does not have to bear any load or similar, as this is supported by the three garage walls. Of course, we understand that nothing can be attached to the fourth wall (house wall). This would be acceptable to us. An advantage of this idea is that we would save the cost of an additional wall and have roughly 20cm (8 inches) more space in the garage (due to the missing extra wall).
I have never heard of such a solution before. Does anyone have experience with this?
We have concerns regarding structural engineering, insulation, etc.
We would appreciate any feedback.
Best regards
T
Traumfaenger17 Jul 2018 23:38Alex85 schrieb:
It seems something has stuck in your mind there. Like the idea "thicker = more solid." Materials also evolve.No, not at all. I didn’t mean "thicker = more solid," but rather "solid = indestructible," as referred to in post #6:
Steven schrieb:
A prefab house is not a concrete bunker.
If you drive a car into it, you’ll probably end up in the living room. You can get through the walls with a proper hammer.That’s exactly what I was referring to and responding to. Maybe someone still has some Poroton T8 36.5cm (14 inches) blocks and Styrodur insulation and can try hitting it with a "proper hammer" (20 kg sledgehammer?)… and then share a photo of the result. I already have an idea of what it might look like…