Browse Forums Building A New House 1 Mar 12, 2009 10:27 am Hi folks.
I'm doing a knockdown-rebuild in Adelaide, and I'm planning to subdivide the block to build 2x semidetached. The block currently is 18.29x61.83m, so we will have two very long skinny blocks. Has to be 1m setback from side boundary, so maximum house width is 8.14m. I'm planning to build reasonable sized houses, 4beds each, but very few builders have ready-made plans to accomodate this - so I'm looking at builders that are happy to signficantly adjust their plans. Does anyone have any tips on house designs of this size and shape, or any advice? I'd love to hear your input. Re: Narrow blocks 3Mar 12, 2009 10:48 am Spud McDoug Hi folks. I'm doing a knockdown-rebuild in Adelaide, and I'm planning to subdivide the block to build 2x semidetached. The block currently is 18.29x61.83m, so we will have two very long skinny blocks. Has to be 1m setback from side boundary, so maximum house width is 8.14m. I'm planning to build reasonable sized houses, 4beds each, but very few builders have ready-made plans to accomodate this - so I'm looking at builders that are happy to signficantly adjust their plans. Does anyone have any tips on house designs of this size and shape, or any advice? I'd love to hear your input. Wouldn't you be better off subdividing and making two blocks, the front one and a battleaxe at the back? that way you'd have a lot more flexibility with the size house you could put on each and they could be fully detached. This also gives the people living there a lot more flexibility with what they could do with the back yard. Stevep79 & Principessa Finished building Wisdom Homes Impression 33mkII in The Ponds, Sydney http://lilypadintheponds.blogspot.com Re: Narrow blocks 4Mar 12, 2009 10:48 am I would be looking at starting from scratch. No point in changing a plan to fit.
I would be starting at a town house style with the common wall possibly being shared by the double garage in the centre. Have living area on ground with large kitchen/family with laundry and poweder room together with may study lounge or one bedroom on ground. With remaining bedrooms up stairs. You then have large stacker or bifold doors opening onto large backyard. Re: Narrow blocks 5Mar 12, 2009 10:48 am My block is 39.6m x 17.7m (rectangular). Split into two. Own design. 930mm side setback. 3BR, family, lounge, study, dining, ensuite, garage.
My council (and most in Adelaide) has restriction on overall size of home (as % of block size). We thought about it long and hard, and in the end, decided to keep the number of rooms we want and settle for smallish rooms. PM me with your email address if you want more details. Chris Re: Narrow blocks 7Mar 12, 2009 11:59 am MrT built a nice house on a narrow block which was 10.7m wide. His house looks great.
Here is the link https://forum.homeone.com.au/viewtopic.p ... hlight=mrt Happy at Home Re: Narrow blocks 8Mar 12, 2009 1:28 pm Thanks for your ideas. I should point out that there are a few restrictions:
-Battleaxe doesn't work - not quite enough width for our very picky council to allow it (Mitcham - notorious). -We would prefer not to build 2 storey - the other house is for my parents-in-law who don't want to be dealing with the stairs, and we're also trying to keep costs down. So it looks like we'll be having long, skinny houses, most likely joined at the garage only. There isn't a huge amount of variation with what you can do with this layout, but any further ideas would be welcome. Re: Narrow blocks 9Mar 13, 2009 4:13 pm ...and just to make my life more interesting, the land is also sloping - there will be a 1 - 2 metre fall fromt he back of the house to the front, depending on how long the envelope is.
Any ideas? Re: Narrow blocks 10Mar 14, 2009 9:04 am Can't help you with the slope.
One of the major issue that we faced was the width of the garage - both the width of the roller door and also internal width so that you can get in/out of the car reasonably. We ended up with a 2.65m door and 3.2m internal width. Downside of a useable garage is that the room across the hallway tends to be narrow. (note. my party wall is 350mm wide (175mm per house). The other issue we faced was the layout of the kitchen, unless you like or don't mind having the sink on the breakfast bar (which we don't like). Chris Re: Narrow blocks 11Dec 06, 2012 9:49 am The major issue that people face with narrow blocks is the availability of an appropriately skilled and experienced designer. Enter the age of the Designer-Builder. You deal with a team of people , each with their own particular skill set. I think you need someone with design knowledge and skills, but they have to be practical in respect to building construction matters, and they need to be experienced enough to be able to work all of this to your budget. Easy to find? No. But they are out there. all the best, and remember he who takes responsibility for his drawings builds to your plan. Those span tables can be pushed a little for a low deck if you dont mind a little flex. Last deck I did, I pushed it a little and it was still rock solid - no noticeable… 6 11349 Thanks again for this information. If you do hear anything different, would be great to know 4 5990 dimensions on your original plan are inconsistent and with accurate dimensions (including site plan, upstairs and down) i could make a proper scale drawing with furniture… 3 6196 |