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Is it possible to connect an outhouse to the house?

Anonymous user 28/02/2024 - 3.31 PM

We have an outhouse with outside toilet. Is it possible to connect it to the house so it becomes part of the house? At the minute the outhouse has the tumble dryer in and bikes and tools, but it would be handy to have direct access to the toilet&outhouse. It would mean having to move the kitchen into the dining area (it's currently a kitchen/diner) and creating a doorway where the kitchen now is to get into the outhouse. Does this sound possible at all? Thanks.

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Handyman Locksmith

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Chipping Norton
As above yes you can adjoin the outhouse to your house, measure up for a standard doorway by checking the ones in your house approximately 802 wide and 2.2m high, draw this on the wall to be removed, then add another 30mm around this drawn line for the door liner, if you are having one that is? purchase a pre stressed concrete lintel approximately 1100 wide x 6x4 mark this out at top of drawn doorway remembering the door lining 30mm, chop/cut out for lintel you can hold this up and draw round it or measure it, chances are it's a relatively newish build so modern bricks, remove bricks, as a precaution you can use an acro support internally for piece of mind while removing the bricks, use a cement bed 6'' wide both sides of the doorway insert lintel, now you can cut the vertical lines outing remove the bricks same process internally. Make good and plaster in and you're away. hope this helps
Answered20 November 2019
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Anonymous user

Hi, This is perfectly possible, you would need to install the correct lintel, then cut out the new doorway
Answered30 September 2017
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