Bricking up the garage. Tips?

Well, besides the office, it can also be a neighbor. Or someday a future neighbor. Who knows.

Use) Without a gate it is obvious: it is no longer a garage.

Interlocking) Can be omitted if using sand-lime brick.

Thank you very much for all the opinions!! A few questions remain

- The same stone as the rest of the garage.
- As winnetou78 said, regularly tie into the other walls.
- Pay attention to the horizontal barrier (I believe you can also see this on the other walls).
- The first row is the most important, put effort into it
- For plastering, I would look for a mason (through informal channels, neighborhood help).

For the ring beam, I would say here: courage to leave a gap, just brick it up.

There should still be a sheet metal edging on the roof.

The horizontal barrier against rising damp? Good idea, I hadn’t even thought of that. Just roofing felt or bitumen?

In the end, you’re just building on the base slab,

True. Is that a problem? A proper floor covering is probably going on the slab later to make it a bit cozier

I still see many usable stones in the demolition rubble. Clean them a bit and you save about 50 cents per stone.

above all, you also save on the cost of disposing of the rubble.

True! Very good, thank you!!

I’ll come back to my post about sealing it with Ytong. Stick it bluntly onto the old walls, place an anchor every second to third row, that works. How, look it up on the net. There are many YouTube videos. Karsten

I’ll drive to Ytong in the next few days, they have a plant near here. Let’s see what they advise. Thanks!

A different question:

Does the former garage stand on the property boundary? And is the conversion approved?

Not that you do all the work now and in the end the office comes around the corner and says: that’s not allowed...

Yes, the garage is right on the boundary. In fact, on two boundaries. But that’s not a problem, at least as a garage. Ultimately, it should serve as storage, a basement substitute. I haven’t registered the conversion yet. I’ll probably inquire indirectly. Has anyone ever experienced that someone from the building authority actually showed up?

Usage)
Without a gate it’s obvious: it’s no longer a garage.

Interlocking)
You can skip it if you use sand-lime bricks.

You can skip it? So then my first variant: just build at a right angle onto the existing walls up to the underside of the aerated concrete ceiling? Without wall anchors and without interlocking? That would of course be the easiest..

One more question about the ceiling: How stable do you estimate such an aerated concrete ceiling to be? The slabs are about 4m long and 15 cm thick. Each slab has steel reinforcement.

Thank you very much!

As if I had smelled it.

Cellar replacement room not equal to garage.

And presumably only a garage is permitted there.

If everything is to be correct, you must have the change of use approved. And whether your building is approvable there, I cannot assess.

And yes, the building authority visited me unannounced three times during the construction phase of about 9 months.

I mean, it has happened now. The gate is gone. But I would have left it in. And definitely wouldn’t have parked the car in there. My garage will never house the car, it is a cheap workshop, garden shed, etc. And as long as there is a gate, it is a garage. And as long as our car doesn’t park on the street, no one will care. Whether the lawnmower is in there or the VW is totally indifferent to the neighbor...

I will drive to Ytong in the next few days, there is a plant nearby. Let's see what they advise me.

What are you expecting? - not seriously that they would recommend another material, right? How do you even come up with the idea to shorten a garage in length "with basement replacement" to "if basement replacement, then only long enough for a second car," and then also want to replace the door that maintains the garage permit? - I would at least reinstall the door and make my first masonry attempts with a garden grill. Not everyone has one made of aerated concrete blocks. Then the garage would simply be shortened like a pair of pants and all peace restored. No building authority will be disturbed by a few wine bottles in the garage. And you can carry bulky waste out much more comfortably through a door.