A friend is planning to build a double garage in Leca (25 cm stones) with plenty of space in all directions. Initially, it was just a matter of walls with trusses on top, then it leaned towards making the walls 1-1.2 meters higher for storage space above the garage, which means a floor structure, so trusses wouldn't work well anymore... and so the thinking continued... 2/4-post lift will surely be desired in the future, so a ceiling height of 2.4-2.6 meters is too low :-/ I then came up with the idea of having it open all the way up to the ridge on one half and a floor structure on the other half of the garage!
So is it possible (read suitable) to make the entire walls in Leca, have a glulam beam at the ridge (probably with a supporting post in the middle) and smaller glulam beams as roof joists?
Do they rest directly on the Leca?
Are there any fittings to use at the ridge for the roof joists, or should they rest on top of the ridge beam and be nailed together "flat side to flat side"?
What is the best way to make the wooden floor structure for the half upper floor? Perhaps it would be suitable to build half a supporting wall at the gable (like in basement walls), maybe the thickness of the wall plus one block (25 + 59 cm) up to where the floor structure should be and use it as a support for the floor beams?
Then maybe continue upwards with one block (59 cm incl. the thickness of the wall) up to the level of the ridge beam?
What do you do with the transverse beams in the floor structure out by the wall?
Is there any form of metal brackets to embed in the wall to lay the beams on?
I can add that tiles or concrete tiles are planned to be used!
Lots of question marks there! ;D
