ᐅ House / Carport with L-shaped concrete blocks, or are there better alternatives?
Created on: 4 Nov 2021 12:03
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Pinkiponk
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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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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Now stop with the jokes about men: their time will come! That is when it becomes clear that although the plot is level, the house is actually built too high. You still need to somehow bridge the 1 meter (3 feet) gap to the carport, 80 centimeters (31 inches) to the street, and 50–60 centimeters (20–24 inches) to the terrace on the west side.
@Pinkiponk does it bother you if you have three or four steps everywhere? That’s what it’s coming down to right now. Alternative: build the house a bit lower (which is absolutely no problem at all).
@Pinkiponk does it bother you if you have three or four steps everywhere? That’s what it’s coming down to right now. Alternative: build the house a bit lower (which is absolutely no problem at all).
haydee schrieb:
why is the house built so high in the first place?Standard procedure: the builder takes the highest point of the existing terrain within the foundation area (in this case the southwest corner at approximately 139.70 meters (459 feet)) and raises the house by 30 cm (12 inches) because of the timber construction. Then add 25 cm (10 inches) for the floor structure, and suddenly we are 55 cm (22 inches) higher than the southwest corner, at 140.28 meters (460 feet) finished floor level. Unfortunately, the terrain slopes down towards the actually relevant northeast corner, so there the height difference ends up being 1 meter (3.3 feet) down to the carport or 80 cm (31 inches) down to the street. The planner is not bothered by this – after all, the homeowner can deal with it later. And Pinki is now so worn out from the whole process that they don’t want to tackle it anymore. It’s not a disaster though… with two to four steps on each side of the house or some retaining walls at the carport, it can be managed.
haydee schrieb:
Why is the house even built so high?I already mentioned this in another thread by the original poster on essentially the same topic 11ant schrieb:
I would place the house about 30cm (12 inches) lower, so at 139.90 and I assume the planner used the 140.28 level at the building boundary near the terrace as a reference. However, it seems much wiser to me to base the positioning roughly on the example of @Nordlys when setting out.https://www.instagram.com/11antgmxde/
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