Here the homeowners used the driveway and the garage as a dual design opportunity setting up a geometric scheme that influenced subtle details such as reveals on the new garage doors.
How to brick up a garage door.
This is to make the out house into a study and give new access.
I suppose it stops cowboy stuff but planning is a pain.
In this video tutorial i am removing the back door and relocating it and bricking up the hole.
That way the bricks could always be removed at a later stage to either do a full conversion or if we wanted to revert back to opening the garage door.
This step by step guide offers a simplified procedure but it presents the basic steps required to best get your brick garage built.
Leaving the garage door on also gives you shelter from the rain if you open it whilst you re digging.
I think garage doors with the biggest windows i can find is the way to go and then brick up the inside of the door.
They are framed with wood and rest on a concrete foundation like most homes and garages.
The garage door has been broken for 10 years and actually has shelving units in front of it.
Brick garages a little misleadingly are not just made out of brick.
We have no intention of changing the use.
We know the footings are good enough as it s a 2 storey building.