Conservatory Build project in St. Albans Hertfordshire
Phil is dodging rain showers to try and get the walls built for this conservatory in St Albans. We’re using a Flemish Bond with snapped headers to match the brickwork on the main building.
It can be tricky when joining brickwork to two existing walls; it is not unusual for the brick levels on the existing house to run out. This means that if we match the brick gauge at one side, build our walls level, they would not line up with the brickwork on the other end. However on this job things are ok.
If they weren’t, we would have to match the gauge at the most prominent end and disguise the misaligned joints with a down-pipe at the other. The other alternative when faced with such a scenario would be to run our new brickwork out of level, but then this would show up on the conservatory frames and create greater problems.
We occasionally get similar issues when joining to two floors that are supposed to be the same level. I wasn’t aware that M.C. Escher built houses? Conservatory Build project in St. Albans Hertfordshire
Conservatory Cad- St. Albans
The sloping house roofs on two sides present a slight technical challenge. An orangery roof would have been easier in some respects, but the clients specifically wanted a conservatory to allow as much light as possible into the adjoining rooms. The will require a box-gutter on two sides.
The size of the conservatory is fixed by the two existing walls, although it would be possible to project beyond the rear building line of the house, the clients do not want to do so.