How To Brick Up A Garage Door

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.

How to brick up a garage door.

The warm neutral on the garage ties in with the hues on shutters and brick accents and a minimalist landscape accent of short trimmed shrubs offers subtle. 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. This is to make the out house into a study and give new access. 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.

I suppose it stops cowboy stuff but planning is a pain. Brick garages a little misleadingly are not just made out of brick. We have no intention of changing the use. We know the footings are good enough as it s a 2 storey building.

Leaving the garage door on also gives you shelter from the rain if you open it whilst you re digging. The garage door has been broken for 10 years and actually has shelving units in front of it. That way the bricks could always be removed at a later stage to either do a full conversion or if we wanted to revert back to opening the garage door. This step by step guide offers a simplified procedure but it presents the basic steps required to best get your brick garage built.