ᐅ House / Carport with L-shaped concrete blocks, or are there better alternatives?

To create a level connection between the house and the carport/storage room, it seems that we will need to add soil on the right side of the house (when looking at the house/carport from the street). So far, we have considered using L-shaped concrete blocks as a retaining wall, which would then be partially embedded in the soil on our property. Do you know of better options? I don’t even know how many centimeters (inches) we will need to fill.

There would be a slight slope toward the street (i.e., the driveway), but the carport/storage room should be level.

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If no structural requirements need to be met there, you can simply use planting blocks or planting rings.

With us, a 2.5m (8 feet) high wall was built this way and approved for structural stability. If it is only a few centimeters (inches), you don’t even need to bury them very deep or reinforce with steel in concrete. If the height difference is greater than expected, bury them deeper and add steel reinforcement.

At what height will the carport be built?

haydee schrieb:

What height will the carport be?

Nice try, but @Pinkiponk is both the questioner and the answerer here 😳 In any case, the question of why the house is supposed to be built so much higher than the street has already been repeatedly ‘overlooked’ 😉

No one has yet understood why the carport absolutely has to be 30cm (12 inches) higher than the existing neighboring property, and the house—without a basement—is planned to be 80cm (31 inches) higher than the street level. It would be more reasonable to consider the street and the northern boundary as fixed points and determine the finished floor height and carport height accordingly.

Hangman schrieb:

Nice try, but @Pinkiponk, it is actually the questioner answering 😳 The question of why the house is supposed to be built so much higher than the street level has already been repeatedly ‘overlooked’ 😉

I don’t know the answer to that. And I can’t ask the planner. There is only the architect from the prefab house manufacturer, and his work is already finished. I hope he had a good reason for it. Meanwhile, we are just relieved if the house is eventually built and we have a working heating system, hot water, etc. We lack the experience to question the decisions of the experts, even though we really try.

haydee schrieb:

What height will the carport be?

Unfortunately, I don’t know yet. I planned to focus on that only after the house is built and I can see everything clearly.