We have an attached double garage with bedrooms above looking to block up one of the garage doors with brick and add a window and or a door.
How to brick up garage door.
The garage door has been broken for 10 years and actually has shelving units in front of it.
The first thing to do is dig the footing.
Here the homeowners used the driveway and the garage as a dual design opportunity setting up a geometric scheme that influenced subtle details such as reveals on the new garage doors.
Consider the finish once its all bricked up its perfectly possible to cut a straight line in line with the outside edge of the face brick with a disc cutter and under dig to achieve the footing width.
Leaving the garage door on also gives you shelter from the rain if you open it whilst you re digging.
Brick garages a little misleadingly are not just made out of brick.
In this video tutorial i am removing the back door and relocating it and bricking up the hole.
That way the bricks could always be removed at a later stage to either do a full conversion.
We know the footings are good enough as it s a 2 storey building.
They are framed with wood and rest on a concrete foundation like most homes and garages.
This is to make the out house into a study and give new access.
There is an internal door to the back of the garage but no decent light will come through it and we need it to access the garage anyway.
We have no intention of changing the use.