Thread: Extension - Joined or seperate

HI

Doing the design for a new master bedroom/ens/retreat area for our new place.

Not sure whether I should incorporate it into the existing roofline or move it away a couple of metres and have it standalone with a short glassed breezeway to join.

The house is weatherboard so matching claddings is not an issue. The foundations are are single brick perimeter with double brick piers where the bearers locate. Access is easy and the end that I would join to seems structurally sound with no obvious brick cracking etc.

Would it need more reinforcing to come off the end such as another run of brick piers or would the new bearers just sit alongside the originals basically extending the run?

Is there a lot of work cutting in the new roof into the old one. Basically the original roof is a hip design and the extension will be a gable roof at 90deg to it. The drawings of the roof arent 100% as I think the new gable roof will be slightly higher than the original roof so there will be a stepup. The current roof/roofs are structurally good so I am a bit concerned of screwing around with them.

So any ideas/suggestions re whether to attach or go seperate?

Hope the sketchups work?

house - seperate with roof.skp

house - joined with roofline.skp

This is the current floorplan;

floorplan margate house.skp

Sketchup will only work for folks who have the program. If you can, save them as a .jpg - if not, and you have any kind of photo editing software, then hit the print screen key on your keyboard then past the whole image into the editing software and crop it to suit. A hassle I know, but it seems to be the only way to get the images easily readable by folks.

BTW How old is the home?

thanks Steve, should have thought of that.

Cottage was built in 1941 and extended over the years.

Here are some jpegs;

By the look of the plans, a breezeway would be ideal, depending on which area you want to extend - personally, I favour breezeways because they enable a builder to NOT have to marry into existing conditions, which apparently they all hate doing.

I also like them because they are a very nice idea that enables air to be drawn through a home very efficiently .... and for mine, I reckon they look great too.