Garages with an attic today are very popular, because the attic can act as a utility warehouse. In addition, you can arrange a workshop here, a recreation area with a bar and billiards or use as a living room.
If your deposit does not allow you to buy such a garage, then try to build it yourself.
First you should develop a project of garage with an attic. On the Internet you can find sketches and, based on them, compose your drawings. The scheme of the future building on paper is displayed on paper. A more convenient option would be a computer program, thanks to which you can look not only at the overall view of the building, but also choose a place of placement of the necessary parts of the structure, for example, doors, stairs, etc. D. Calculate all expenses carefully.
Decide on the choice of building material: expanded clay concrete or gas silicate foam blocks or brick. Evaluate all the advantages and disadvantages of each before stopping at one of them. The main criteria, of course, will be quality and price.
We proceed to installing the foundation. It is necessary to make a pit under the stove. We fall asleep with a pillow of sand, tamp and align well. We spread the roofing material throughout the area, carry out drainage and formwork. Concrete is poured after the reinforcement is laid.
If the concrete froze, it’s time to build the walls of the garage from the material that you preferred. In the case of construction by blocks for the lower rows, use full -bodied, and hollow leave for the upper.
Floors can be made of wooden timber or reinforced concrete beams. In order to build a roof, make a rafters from the boards, and then sew it to them from the bottom of the hydro- heat – and noise -insulating materials. Roofing material can be a metal tile. At the last stage of construction work, a gate is built, after which you can safely start the interior decoration.