Side porch/terrace extension

4 months ago

We want to build a terrace across entire side wall that is connected to the ground floor balcony, and goes over the main entrance on the side. With enough space for socialising and roof over it. We don’t know how to connect roof with the front balcony. Any ideas highly appreciated

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Isla Cherry
4 months ago
It sounds as though you want to cast the same concrete slab to fill in between the existing terrace and the slab in front of the main door. You could cast columns into the slab and that would give you some of the roof support you require. You could fix the roof cross members to the house at the same height as the balcony. Depending on what material you use for the roof you should be able to fix it with dowel bars to the exising first floor balcony. You really want a wrap around porch type arrangement.
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