David Hemmings wrote:

On Fri, 2 Jan 2004 17:17:21 -0000, "Owain"
wrote:


"Andrew Welham" wrote
| The garage will be built in the side entrance and I need it to
| be as wide as possible.

1. It might be very useful or essential to keep external access available to
the back garden - you don't say whether this will be available on the other
side of the house - rather than having to take the lawn mower etc through
the garage and back extension (also for fire brigade to get a ladder up to
back bedrooms). You migth also have to leave a gap between the wall and the
boundary to allow for foundation width, guttering, or maintenance.

2. If there is any possibility that you could have a first floor extension
above the garage at a later date, get the foundations sized and the ground
floor walls built to satisfy building regs for a two-storey building now. It
will add very little to the cost now but make things much easier in the
future. By 'any possibility' I mean whether the position of walls, roof,
windows, makes any sense for the first floor to be extended out to the side,
rather than whether the planners would pass it now. Planning policies can
change. If there is such a possibility, consider that a new bedroom above
the garage might want an en-suite, so put in the ug drain now in preparation
for a soil stack.

Owain


Remember that their are different rquirements if there is living space
above, e.g. jiffy hangers if used must be of the heavy duty variety.
So whilst you would get away with normal jiffys for single storey, you
wouldn;t for living space above. This point is obvioulsy moot if
building the joists into the wall or using a wallplate.
what is recommended for single storey garages, and also single storey
living dwellings

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