Kitchen -> Garage low floor and ceiling

[phill5698]

Hi, my wife and I have only bought new properties in the past but are now looking at an older house that needs some attention.

The main problem is the kitchen. We'd like to know whether it's possible (and how much we'd be looking at) to knock through the kitchen into a the back end of the garage which it sits next to. The biggest problem we can see is that the garage floor is lower and the ceiling is proportionally low. So if we were to raise the floor to be inline with the kitchen, the roof would be really low. The garage roof is flat and there doesn't seem to be anywhere for it to go.

So is it possible to raise the roof as well as the floor? Or is there something clever I can do with a step down in the kitchen maybe?

Here is a picture of the property.

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• phill5698
• 27 Jul 2013
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And the link on right move http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-25955337.html

We don't know any builders who we could view the property with so any advice would be appreciated. Unless there is a builder in the Solihull area who would be willing to accompany us in a viewing of the property to give us some advice for a small fee?

 

[phill5698]

Here is the layout

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• phill5698
• 27 Jul 2013
• 1

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

Its all doable, if you can keep the new roof down below 3m above the ground level you can do it without planning permission, costs I'd hazard would be an easy £10K + the kitchen.