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Is raising floor height of lean-to possible, given drainage channel located around inside perimeter?
Anonymous user 09/03/2024 - 3.34 PM
My lean-to abuts my cottage's original external walls on 2 sides. It's a step down from kitchen door – original 1970s back door. **DIAGRAM** <sigh> spent ages drawing floor plan using keyboard characters. Posted, and interface rearranged every line. Not sure if external links allowed, if so have made clear diagram HERE: https://imgur.com/a/TNzqGj1 Lean-to exits into garden up 3 steps reaching garden level. 1. D1&2 are drains - D1 Kitchen sink - P1 W-Machine pipe, D2 Utility sink 2. Red dotted line down L side is narrow channel carrying waste water from P1 to D2 drain (& any excess rainwater?). 3. T1 is original 'outside tap'. Either side of steps, garden soil–or concrete–is right up against external 'wall' of lean-to, so it can get damp, meaning I can't use it in the way I need to while recovering from illness. Floor is concrete w tiles which obvs do not cover the drain points or the channel. Drain access cover is already outside (below the 'A' of Garden). The lean-to only has one of those wavy acrylic roofs. It's now seen better days, so needs replacing, which I think I could manage as they're relatively affordable. On 2 non-house sides of lean-to, where conservatories normally have bricks for the first 50cm, there are no bricks afaict. That part of lean-to walls is in effect subterranean. It *appears* to be almost entirely double-walled wood from ext ground level to int floor level with plastic damp-proof membrane? in between but it's mostly covered in (now rotting in places) T&G so not certain. Above that it's almost entirely glass windows. Long-term I plan to rebuild it. Intended to when I became ill and had to stop work, so lean-to now a bit shambolic. Not been strong enough to prevent the decay. *QUESTION* Until I’ve funds to renovate, is there a way I can at least raise lean-to floor, accommodating perimeter channel, without compromising the drainage? Would the 2 outside ‘walls’ need rebuilding with proper bricks/breeze blocks. Does all the plumbing need to be moved? I fear someone’s going to say torch it, but atm I just can't. I need it to limp on a little longer. It's what my Dad would call a bit of a Harry Tate build but I'm stuck with it until I can renovate. Meanwhile it’s starting to fall apart, things are getting damaged, I'm not sure how to temporarily save it from disaster, and feel increasingly miserable at not being able to solve it.
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