extension

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...

I noticed a couple of small patches of damp around the rear uPVC door in the extension leading to the garden. Additionally the extension is very cold with the floor in particular being cold. The step outside the door is built on a foundation of bricks that are exposed and the gutter above the...

Hello Previous owners had an extension built that basically acts as an independent structure with it's own boiler, consumer unit etc... and it's own roof. Didn't think anything of it when we moved in 2 years back but the valley where the two roofs meet has been a source of leaks, partly due to...

I am looking at getting a second floor on extension which will be open on first floor for just path, so first floor would be a room, would planning permission be need to do this? The attached image shows how I would want it to look like, however my house is a semi and will need a bit of...

Hi all, I'm planning on having a flat roof extension (5x3m) with a parapet style walls but stuck on height requirements for the parapet wall. I'd like to have the parapet style walls with either stone or metal coping to avoid having plastic trims/ visible gutter pipes/etc. but I'm having...

With the 2023 building regulations changes it looks like the external wall width (from exterior brick to finished plastered internal wall) for a new extension would be: 102.5mm - exterior bricks 150mm - cavity for standard insulation (unless using some higher performance / more expensive...

Hello, hoping I can get some feedback on a drainage layout I'm trying to do for our extension. This is an update on an earlier design I posted - I've now removed the internal manhole and it is located outside instead :) We have a private combined drainage system that heads over to our...

Hi, I have recently put proctor roofshield breathable roofing membrane on my 15 degree pitched roof extension. Over the last week with the heavy rain I have noticed water coming through the membrane on to the roof rafters as if where I have nailed the battens to them. The inside of the...