extension

I am in the planning stage of a single floor rear extension with a flat roof. The extended space is everything below the green line shown in the attachment. The oil burner is currently positioned in red circle 1. For added context, but not critical for the help needed here: as you can see...

Hi I have recently moved into a 1930s bungalow which had a single storey with extension added in the 1970s. At first I noticed a crack that runs along the join of the extension to the main house at one corner which is both external and internal. Also recently though I've noticed the floor bumps...

Hi, we are getting close to digging footings for our single storey extension and am finding information on party walls confusing. All of the diagrams I have seen demonstrating the 3m rule are in relation to the adjoining property horizontally and not when the new wall is perpendicular to the...

Hi I've recently moved house into a 1920s bungalow. An excellent extension to the kitchen was added in the 1970s and I've noticed a crack at the corner of the door where the extension meetings the main house. The crack is both external and internal. I'm in a real panic that it's bad structural...

Hi, We live in a busy city where space is limited and have a bit of an odd shaped house, we’d love to extend it somehow but the orientation/layout makes it a bit tricky. I’m hoping someone out there might be kind enough to offer some advice! We’re a semi detached corner house, originally it was...

Need a (partly) insulated room as an extension at the back of a link-attached single garage. The area is currently covered with not very even garden tiles (ants and old hedge roots are to blame). No building DIY skills. Does not have to be same temperature as the house, just protected from the...

Hi First timer on the forum. I'm sure this question has probably been asked before - but I couldn't find it anywhere. Im building a standard single storey extension and all of the specs / drawings I can find online - show a typical construction of 12.5mm Plasterboard 40mm Celotex TB4000...

Hi, A confusing one. For our knock-thru and main steel at rear of house, our SE has specified insitu padstone as follows through onto the new extension wall (steel actually only 100mm dimension now, not 250mm): The builder has produced this with a day to go before steel installed! we...

Hi all! I'm soon going to have my kitchen extended by knocking out the external wall. The work will also involve sanding down an artex ceiling (we've checked and there's no asbestos, luckily). However, I have a dust allergy, and I'm worried about dust from the work in the kitchen getting all...

I'm on the verge of getting a house (or my other half is anyhow). It's a small semi, but with enough space for a decent sized extension. The plan is to extend to the side, the existing foul waste routes from the rear around the side and off at an angle to a newish sewage treatment plant(STP)...

Afternoon all. I have a dormer bedroom, built into a hip roof under what looks to be permitted development. There is a 2x2 m stone column, from ground level all the way up to the eaves of the hip roof which contains two stacked bathrooms, one for each flat (ground floor and first floor) which is...

Hi Looking for some advice... So I have a dormer style house (common in suburban areas in the UK) and due to lack of space to the side of the property unable to do a double storey extension as a couple of the neighbours have done So the front bedrooms are a large decent sized room and one...

Hi all, I've just bought a house and I've noticed a couple of issues with the flat-roof extension. It seems like there is quite a fair bit of damp that has occurred in the corners of the kitchen extension. The lead-flashing looks a little suspicious, and there's no coping stone either. There...

Hello, my wife and I are in the process of having an extension built on our semi-detached house. The work is fairly advanced but we’ve got some issues and the builders are not communicating very well with us (or Building Control). It is a timber frame with outer brick skin, tiled sloped roof...

Hi Everyone, I hope you’re all doing well. I have prepared a submission of neutral comments in response to a planning permission application from my neighbor, and I would appreciate your feedback. Excuse the lengthiness of my comments, but could you all please take a look at them and provide...

Focusing on subsidence and foundation issues only. What responsibilities should a homeowner and their builder take on when building on the boundary line 2 meters next to a neighboring property that was built in 1949? Of course, the Party Wall Act applies. What preventative measures could they...

Hi everyone, I'm planning some renovations and need advice on the permissions and regulations involved. Here are the details of my project and some specific questions I have: Current Situation: I have a concrete sectional garage. There's a small walkway between my house and the garage leading...

Hello everyone, I'm in the early stages of planning a kitchen extension to the back of my Edwardian mid-terraced house, which will inevitably impact the bathroom above it. The floor of my bathroom is sunken - ie there are two steps down from the door to the bathroom floor. In the course of my...

Hi all - appreciate any thoughts on this please: Attached is the current layout of my property. The Orange line is where the back of my house was originally built to. The previous owner added the conservatory, utility and bathroom to the back (over 15 years ago). The blue square is where...

Hi All, I have a first floor extension similar to the one in the photo below, but about half the span (~3.3m span with two columns). The photo shows that they used a steel beam with a plate welded to the underside, but installed the beam to carry the outer leaf rather than the inner one...