Roofing between house and garage

[grahame.woodfield]

Hope someone can give me some tips please .... We have a horrible looking corrugated plastic roof between our house and garage - plus, the timber framing to support it is even worse ...:-( Basically the span between the house and garage is just over 3 ft wide, but runs for around 16ft. You walk the 3ft between the door from the utility room in the house to the door into the garage. The roofing therefore runs right to left for the 15ft run - as you leave the utility room, the 'drop' for rain water runs the whole 15ft, and slopes right to left. Also under the roofing is the outlet from a fan-flued boiler (also in the utility room). I will change this for a chimney type arrangement which will go through the new roofing. I don't really like the corrugated sheeting, and I've seen I can buy new solid/box section polycarbonate sheeting in lengths up to 6m (so that would be good for the total length needed), but I don't know how I can then fix the sheeting to the new framing - I could start at both ends, but my arms aren't 3m long !! ... so, I'm thinking of buying shorter sheets, but then I'll need to connect the sheets end-to-end ... Struggling to think how I can do this, and I don't want to resort to corrugated stuff and overlappaing. Any ideas? Thanks in adavnce folks

[Roger]

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I dealt with a firm in Colchester when I replaced a car port a few years ago. Mrplastic.org. The car port was attached to the house only on the upper edge so not quite the same but it wouldn't hurt to ask if their edge bars could be fitted without the need for 3m arms.

The only other thing I can think off is to reconfigure the roof with the fall across the passageway and plumb in a gutter on the lower side or have it high enough to discharge onto the garage roof.

[meow2222]

I reckon that would look much better, more like a proper piece of roofing.

Your choices are glass, corru plastic or twinwall polycarb. Glass looks best of course. All will get dirty, so sloping down away from the house would make the occasoinal clean easier.

Unfortunately you do have to have 10ft long arms to use 10ft sheets, so I guess you cant use those :)

NT