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Hi everyone I’m looking to build a small 'porch' (2m x 3m) to connect the back door of my house to the side door of my double garage and then partition off part of the garage as a utility space. Issue is the garage floor is about 5cm higher than the house. Anyone know if this will cause a problem with building regs? (I live in Scotland). Cheers
I think there'll be some stuff you'll need to do to match fire regs? You can download the regs for free online and they're not too bad to read, so that'd be a good start. Try and speak to your building warrant office as well ASAP and get them 'on-side.'
Thanks have tried to speak to the warrant office but not received a clear answer. Will try and get the regs.
We are in England... but we have in our renovation a drop of 3inches into the house. You’ll need a fire door I wold expect
IANAE but I expect that there would need to be somthing to stop a potential fuel leak running into the house or partitioned area, from the garage area.
Fire door on the garage as a minimum. I can't imagine why levels matter. Ours has a two step drop via a utility room.
I found a document on the planning portal and it seems to imply the floor level in the garage has to slope away from the dwelling area.
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When I did mine I had to have a firedoor into the house and the garage floor had to slope away or there had to be a step. Think this was in case of flammable fluid leakage
Regs do change so you need to check what is current
we had our garage partially converted into guest accommodation and the building regs (in england) say that the retained garage space floor level needs to be lower than the living area floor.
As mentioned above it's to protect from fuel spills etc in the garage.
You mean fumes.
Cars go in garages. Cars give off fumes. Keeping the door lower and the floor sloping away means the heavy dense fumes fall out the garage rather than build up and go into house.