Knock through garage to create more parking???

[anonymous-user]

Hitch said:

Many buyers would find it a bit wacky that you drive through the garage to park your car and then have to reverse each car out in order to get the one you want. Buyers are a touch boring that way.

Yes I agree not ideal. I need the space for parties and socialising when I'd stick my cars in the back so others can park in the garage and drive. Currently parking is so poor around here that even just one visitor causes neighbours to kick off. The one visitor space in the area is taken by my neighbours third car despite him having a huge front garden with lowered kerb all along but refuses to pave an extra space there. "Drives" me mad. Excuse the pun.

[Cold]

[TA14]

MikeStroud said:

Main issue is the rough bit of land has a mature oak on its boundary. If I build there I fear the foundations will severe roots that keep the oak upright in the winter winds. Maybe builders hand dig around tree roots and place lintels over them?. Anyone know ?

Mini piles, e.g.: http://challiceconsulting.co.uk/?page_id=168

[anonymous-user]

TA14 said:

MikeStroud said:

Main issue is the rough bit of land has a mature oak on its boundary. If I build there I fear the foundations will severe roots that keep the oak upright in the winter winds. Maybe builders hand dig around tree roots and place lintels over them?. Anyone know ?

Mini piles, e.g.: http://challiceconsulting.co.uk/?page_id=168

Interesting link thank you

[Buffalo]

I had a garage built onto the side of my house in Canada. Most people there build them in the back garden with a massive driveway out front. Seemed a waste of a good garden to me, but I did compromise with the builder and put a rear door in to drive through (mostly for future purchasers as everyone there has snowmobiles, 4-wheelers, large lawnmower, trailer and boat, etc.)

Turned out to be a brilliant idea. Especially when we had get togethers in summer where we could use the garage as a bit of shelter with rear door up.

I'd do it - especially if you do use the rear land for entertaining space, etc.

[frisbee]

The estate my parents live on has a number of houses built with a double garage door at the front and a single at the back. There is a lintel in my parents' house but the house was extended behind the garage before they bought it so its bricked up.

In this case I don't think they were necessarily intended to drive a car through but to provide convenient access to the garden and maybe more light when working in the garage.