john banks

Here is a picture and existing plan.

http://s1107.photobucket.com/albums/...nt=stables.png

Each stable is wide enough to take a car, but not deep enough. 6m would be ideal. Ideas on how to bring the roof out, perhaps using pantiles or slates that will look nice, but not necessarily prevent use as stables in future if they even wanted to be put back?

Dedrater

It needs to be secured storage?

john banks

Not necessarily, just nice to get the cars under cover, but depending on cost could consider open front conversion if that is what you're hinting at?

Perhaps just converting the three rooms in the middle, not the "tack room" or the stable at the far end as access to that would be tight for a car.

PaulC72

a car port would be the cheapest and probably easiest way to go, nothing stopping you adding a door either making it into a semi permanat garage structure, but it wouldn't be that secure (not like brick etc)

Dedrater

That is what I was thinking.

A wood structure with a pvc or other roof, you could tile it for aesthetics, with a water proof membrane underneath.

Assuming the structure is not yours, you could always take it down and take the materials with you.

A builder could easily make the four openings into two and semi secure it in a garden shed type of way.

Dedrater

The first thing I thought of was foundations, if wanting to keep with the current appearance of the building, for secured storage.

john banks

I wondered about a gable end or raising the roof because another 1.8 m on the depth would bring the roof too low if extending at the same pitch as it is presently.

Dedrater

To me, both of them options are too expensive to cover a few cars.

Why not just have a double pitched roof, the second pitch, the one you make, made however you like. If needs be have pile foundations for the structue and buy some reclaimed tiles for the roof.

Dedrater

Ah, is that gate not able to be moved more to the left of the picture?

john banks

Have some spare tiles. What do you do for drainage between two pitched rooves? Would another pitched roof look a bit silly if only 2m in total depth? Would it go up and down, or just up?

Gates can be moved, but there is a water tank and a retaining wall that blocks a vehicular approach to the stable nearest to you on the photo and at the bottom of the plan.

Dedrater

Done like this, if it makes sence..

john banks

Thanks, I follow. This overhead picture shows the layout (and the construction of the other roofing around the property for context) and vehicular access. The red access shows the route I propose. The blue access is raised about 6ft above the level of the proposed garage floor, so probably not useful.

http://s1107.photobucket.com/albums/...ent=garage.png