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Removing Garage Door with window and bricks

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About to do this very soon on a late 60s built house with enclosed
garage.

I'm going to get a UPVC window to fit totally across the top half, to
existing brick, and use new bricks/blocks below, which will be
rendered with concrete.

I'll also stick a DPC at the same height as the existing one.

Do I need to do anything else with the DPC and can I lay brick
straight onto the concrete floor with mortar or should I prepare it
some other way?

Any other advice appreciated.

Cheers.

If you are changing the use of the garage to a dwelling area, then planning
and/or building control will need to know, they'll also want to see the
foundations which will mean diging some test holes outside, they'll want to
know if there's any DPM underneath the existing floor and if there's not you
may have to dig it out and get one in and probably insulation under the
floor too, and also the walls and ceiling.

If it's not becoming a dwelling then you can disregard all of the above, but
if it is and you don't do the above, then you will have problems when you
sell the house, unless you turn it back into a garage.

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