I went recently to see a woman who has a modern garage that's built on a hi ll so the inside of the garage is a lot taller than would normally be the c ase.
You go in through the up and over door and at the back of the garage the do or to go to the house it probably 1.5 metres above the floor level of the g arage.
She got someone to build her a mezzanine type floor that covers about one t hird of the garage so when entering it from the back door there is an area full of worktop with room for appliances under it and a ramp down to the lo wer area.
Anyway, this mezzanine area is built on brick piers and wooden support post s and seems quite well done BUT she had a bit of a water leak from the wash ing machine's supply pipe and it soaked the carpet that's on the lower floo r under the mezzanine and asked me to remove the soaked and festering carpe t.
It was at this point that I discovered the mezzanine's brick piers and wood en posts HAD BEEN BUILT ON TOP OF THE CARPET!!!!!! So to remove the carpet I had to cut around all the posts and the brick piers, which was not at all easy with soaked carpet!