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2014-01-12 04:11:21
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[*]hello,
I might not be in the right place here, but I urgently need advice from experts
we recently bought a two-family house and are currently renovating.... and as usual, problems are now arising.
for one, the garage was added later and is apparently somewhat too wide. so that it crosses the neighbor's property boundary.
years ago, the garage was converted into "living space" (2 office rooms) without the permission of the neighbor or the building authority. behind it there was an extension built (2 rooms, bathroom, hallway), which was approved, but here too the property boundary was apparently exceeded by a few centimeters.
in the old house, there is living space upstairs and downstairs as well. we would use the lower part together with the extension. the upper apartment would be rented out. now to the actual problem.... there is only one main entrance from the street.
if both parties were to use this entrance, we would have to go through the kitchen to get to the living room. and access to the upstairs apartment would be open, which tenant would want that. that's why this entrance should only be for the upstairs apartment...
our entrance should be created in the former garage, we don't need these rooms as they are anyway, it would just be a long hallway. well, only the neighbor resists, for understandable reasons, after all, he has only had disadvantages so far.
he insists that the garage door remains (from outside it still looks like a garage)
I have already googled and also called the city's building authority... they want me to call on Monday, they want to look at the plans... but I would already like to know if there are possibilities?
our garage adjoins the neighbor's garage, between them is one of those white doors as is usually the case with garages.
I thought it would help to build a wall (drywall) inside with a 1m distance, not placing the door in the middle to maintain the distance. only I read everywhere about a 3m distance?? The house is located in NRW, a rather rural area.
or what do you think of the idea? [INDENT]completely remove the garage door and use the garage as an open passage? at the back we could then build it so that we would have a house entrance.
surely easier to get approved by the authorities than converting the registered garage into a long hallway and having a front door in front.
is something like this allowed??? please respond, it's really giving me headaches right now.
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