extension

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...

I am intending to move house later this year and was intending to buy a house that needs renovating and has space to extend. I intend to remove any gas supply for various reasons including the gradual move away from gas and the fact that although I cannot generate my own gas, I can generate...

Hello, Grateful for any advice as I cannot find a post which exactly matches my enquiry. Part 1. I Have a large weeping Silver Birch which is located approx 3.5 m from property, the large canopy takes up a vast chunk of the garden, is there any realistic possibility that a council will permit...

Hi, Our extension width and length is not divisible by an exact number of bricks (taking into account a standard mortar width of 10mm). This is for an extension with planning permission - not permitted development. What might be the best approach? - create the walls slightly under the planned...

Single story extension is leaking in heavy rain - we have a flat ceiling inside and in heavy rain both spotlights are dripping heavily with water. One towards the back of the extension wall and one towards the front. We’ve also got 2 other wet patches. We’ve been on the roof and inspected the...

We are planning an extension that will abut to our pitched roof. This will involve cutting back rafters and replacing the roof plate with an I-Beam. I would like to understand how this should be installed to continue to support existing rafters please. The below shows 2 options of how I envisage...

Hello, I’m trying to design a crown roof for our rear extension with two of the sides at 270cm (to reduce light impact for the neighbour) and 300cm at the other two side (to allow us to have higher kitchen units). This creates the problem of what to do at the transition between the heights. I’m...

Hello, we are planning a rear extension which will add an new UFH system, one extra radiator, and an extra towel rail. Currently we have a 10 year old Worcester Bosch 25si combi boiler which is doing alright. It has recently been serviced and the gas engineer said it is looking good...