Hi,

Have a concrete sectional garage with shallow ridged roof, made from
corrugated asbestos cement.

The front of it is ~1.5m behind the back of the house.  The garage is
set back about 4 car lengths from the road.

I would like to replace the asbestos roof with one that doesn't leak
and generally make the place a bit for homely for the freezer we intend
to put in there.

So the plan is to remove existing roof and timber and replace with new
corrugated plastic over new timber work.

What scope is there for me to make the roof a little higher with a
steeper pitch?  Some other garages along the road (on properties built
at a different time) have higher roofs with steeper pitch.  The point
of this would be to create a space in which I can store our volumous
roof box which we bought after our car shrank, following the birth of
our daughter.

I'm wondering if I need any kind of approval for this work be it
building regs or planning?

any comments gratefully received.

--
Steve F

> The front of it is ~1.5m behind the back of the house.  The garage is
> set back about 4 car lengths from the road.
> (...)
> What scope is there for me to make the roof a little higher with a
> steeper pitch?


You may or may not require planning permission. It depends on your
circumstances, but you could well be lucky with this one.


> So the plan is to remove existing roof and timber and replace with new
> corrugated plastic over new timber work.


Corrugated plastic is horrible, noisy, cracks easily and looks tacky,
especially after a few years of UV. I'd use almost anything in preference.
Perhaps board over with WBP ply and some good quality roofing felt.

Christian.

jon wrote:

> It sounds if I have the same asbestos  roof as you. For future
> reference how are planning on getting rid of it.


Get in touch with your local "Tidy Tip", or the council, or
use Google, and find out which tip accepts this stuff (they
will have an "enclosed" skip). Take the stuff there on a
trailer, and dump it. Call the tidy tip first to check
they've got room in the skip for it, it's normally emptied
once a week or so.

To get the sheets off, get some bolt cutters, and snip the
nuts in half, across the flats, so that they fall off the
bolts. 18" cutters are OK.

> To get the sheets off, get some bolt cutters, and snip the
> nuts in half, across the flats, so that they fall off the
> bolts. 18" cutters are OK.


And take all the usual precautions. Don't go round cutting it up with a
circular saw!

Christian.

Fitz wrote:

> I would like to replace the asbestos roof with one that doesn't leak
> and generally make the place a bit for homely for the freezer we intend
> to put in there.
> 
> So the plan is to remove existing roof and timber and replace with new
> corrugated plastic over new timber work.
> 
> What scope is there for me to make the roof a little higher with a
> steeper pitch?


It'll be fine as long as the apex is 4m high or less. What sort of
"corrugated plastic" are you thinking of? I wouldn't use Onduline,
'cos IMO it's rubbish (although you can improve things by using it
over Sterling board). Why not corrugated iron?

"Fitz"  wrote in message 
news:1126876648.883061.185090@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

> Hi,
>
> Have a concrete sectional garage with shallow ridged roof, made from
> corrugated asbestos cement.
>
> The front of it is ~1.5m behind the back of the house.  The garage is
> set back about 4 car lengths from the road.
>
> I would like to replace the asbestos roof with one that doesn't leak
> and generally make the place a bit for homely for the freezer we intend
> to put in there.
>
> So the plan is to remove existing roof and timber and replace with new
> corrugated plastic over new timber work.
>
> What scope is there for me to make the roof a little higher with a
> steeper pitch?  Some other garages along the road (on properties built
> at a different time) have higher roofs with steeper pitch.  The point
> of this would be to create a space in which I can store our volumous
> roof box which we bought after our car shrank, following the birth of
> our daughter.
>
> I'm wondering if I need any kind of approval for this work be it
> building regs or planning?
>
> any comments gratefully received.
>
> --
> Steve F
>

Sorry for hijacking your post, but It sounds if I have the same asbestos 
roof as you. For future reference how are planning on getting rid of it.

Jon

Hi

From what I can recall (just got permission for something similar) if all of 
the garage is more than 1m from any boundary and as stated less than 4m high 
you should be OK.
Or make a quick sketch of you property pop down to council they will get 
your house up on PC and tell you there and then if you need planning and or 
Building regs.

Cheers

Tony


Fitz"  wrote in message 
news:1126876648.883061.185090@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

> Hi,
>
> Have a concrete sectional garage with shallow ridged roof, made from
> corrugated asbestos cement.
>
> The front of it is ~1.5m behind the back of the house.  The garage is
> set back about 4 car lengths from the road.
>
> I would like to replace the asbestos roof with one that doesn't leak
> and generally make the place a bit for homely for the freezer we intend
> to put in there.
>
> So the plan is to remove existing roof and timber and replace with new
> corrugated plastic over new timber work.
>
> What scope is there for me to make the roof a little higher with a
> steeper pitch?  Some other garages along the road (on properties built
> at a different time) have higher roofs with steeper pitch.  The point
> of this would be to create a space in which I can store our volumous
> roof box which we bought after our car shrank, following the birth of
> our daughter.
>
> I'm wondering if I need any kind of approval for this work be it
> building regs or planning?
>
> any comments gratefully received.
>
> --
> Steve F
>