Basti2709
2019-01-09 12:13:33
- #1
Hello dear forum community,
I have had a crazy idea (???) in my head for a few days now.
We built our little house in 2015, and everything is basically perfect for us. However, we had another child in 2017 and are now five people. Unfortunately, our house does not have three children's rooms, so the two girls share a room. This might still work in toddler age, but I fear it won’t work forever...?
Since my dad and I have done a lot of work on our house ourselves, we tried to come up with some ideas. Unfortunately, the floor plan doesn’t offer many options, and basically only an extension is possible.
Unfortunately, the development plan specifies a building plot. This has already been fully utilized in all directions. Except to the north, we still have about 8 meters of room... currently, our garage + carport is standing there.
I could imagine an extension on top of the carport/garage here...
For that, the current ceiling made of rafters and battens would have to be replaced with a concrete ceiling (filigree ceiling?). I would like to keep the carport and garage as they are... only a construction on top of them. The garage is located 1 meter outside the building plot, so I couldn’t build over everything. But an area of about 8 x 6 meters would still be created. Then everyone would have their place in the house...
My questions regarding this:
1. Would something like this be feasible, or is such a building project not possible due to building regulations?
2. Could the garage/carport be retained, or would this be impossible due to statics? The concrete ceiling would have to be placed on the already built garage.
3. The bathroom as well as a newly created room would then only have light through (large) skylights – is that allowed?
4. What would be sensible/feasible in terms of heating? The utility room is located right next to the carport... we have a gas boiler installed.
5. The current "parents’" room would then become a large "hallway"... what could one make out of this?
I know there are no 100% answers to these questions... I’m more interested in the essential points I might not have considered and that could make this a crazy idea...

I have had a crazy idea (???) in my head for a few days now.
We built our little house in 2015, and everything is basically perfect for us. However, we had another child in 2017 and are now five people. Unfortunately, our house does not have three children's rooms, so the two girls share a room. This might still work in toddler age, but I fear it won’t work forever...?
Since my dad and I have done a lot of work on our house ourselves, we tried to come up with some ideas. Unfortunately, the floor plan doesn’t offer many options, and basically only an extension is possible.
Unfortunately, the development plan specifies a building plot. This has already been fully utilized in all directions. Except to the north, we still have about 8 meters of room... currently, our garage + carport is standing there.
I could imagine an extension on top of the carport/garage here...
For that, the current ceiling made of rafters and battens would have to be replaced with a concrete ceiling (filigree ceiling?). I would like to keep the carport and garage as they are... only a construction on top of them. The garage is located 1 meter outside the building plot, so I couldn’t build over everything. But an area of about 8 x 6 meters would still be created. Then everyone would have their place in the house...
My questions regarding this:
1. Would something like this be feasible, or is such a building project not possible due to building regulations?
2. Could the garage/carport be retained, or would this be impossible due to statics? The concrete ceiling would have to be placed on the already built garage.
3. The bathroom as well as a newly created room would then only have light through (large) skylights – is that allowed?
4. What would be sensible/feasible in terms of heating? The utility room is located right next to the carport... we have a gas boiler installed.
5. The current "parents’" room would then become a large "hallway"... what could one make out of this?
I know there are no 100% answers to these questions... I’m more interested in the essential points I might not have considered and that could make this a crazy idea...