Guide to Extending Your Home
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Guide to Extending your Home A Ten Alps Publication AA Painting & Decorating and General Maintenance We are a family run business based in Woodbridge covering a wide area of Suffolk and also travelling as far as Hampshire to continue work for all our past customers. All our work is guaranteed and we are fully insured, all work is carried out to a very high standard. 7 Woodbridge Road, Debbach, Woodbridge, Suffolk, IP13 6BY Tel 01473 737719 Mob 07810 7 20799 [email protected] www.aapainting-decorating.co.uk keeble John Martin builders K Domestic/Commercial (Builders) Ltd Quality work from an established company Registered Office and works: Hadleigh Road, Raydon, Ipswich IP7 5LG CLARE, SUFFOLK Tel/Fax: 01473 310491 Email: [email protected] • EXTENSIONS • • ALTERATIONS • • REFURBISHMENTS • To all types of property Complete service available • EXTENSIONS • DESIGN SERVICE • ALTERATIONS • MAINTENANCE Telephone: 01787 277526 • RENOVATIONS • GRANT • INSURANCE Email: [email protected] • CONVERSIONS • WORK WELCOME REFERENCES CAN BE GIVEN www.keebleandcullumltd.co.uk Contents 3 Introduction 11 Loft Conversions 17 Basement Conversions 21 Domestic Extensions 33 Garage Conversions 43 Other Alterations This publication is available as an E-book at your local authority website – see back of booklet for details Guide to Extending your Home 1 EFM M.D. MILLS Surfacing Contractors (BUILDING CONTRACTORS) LTD Specialists In Commercial & Residential: Asphalt Tarmacadam • New Builds & Extensions & Surface Dressing • Renovations • Decorating & Home Improvements Established over 20 years • Insurance Repair Work All Work Guaranteed ROADWAYS – DRIVES – PATHWAYS TENNIS COURTS www.mdmills.co.uk A Professional & Helpful Service Tel: 01787 373085 with Competitive Rates Fax: 01787 379141 Wickham Market: 01728 747425 Email: [email protected] Mobile: 07887 530585 The Pippins, Sudbury Road, Newton Green, www.efmsurfacingcontractors.co.uk Sudbury, Suffolk CO10 0QH Alston Construction GROUNDWORK CONTRACTORS SPECIALISTS IN FOUNDATIONS, DRAINAGE, CONCRETE WORKS, SITE CLEARANCE TEL: 01787 372943 2 Guide to Extending your Home Introduction Background therefore that a building which complies with the Your home is likely to be Building Regulations may one of your biggest assets, not meet the finishing it is a major long-term standards that you require investment and over the and you should be mindful course of your occupancy of this when you are your home will have to entering into contractual adapt to the changing needs arrangements with your of you and your family. builder. Within England and Wales There is a legal requirement most construction work is on both the builder and the covered by the Building owner of the building to Regulations. These are make an appropriate minimum technical standards set by the Building Regulations government and all but the Application and to comply most minor building work with the Building carried out must conform to Regulations. Failure to do so these standards. can result in prosecution through the Magistrates’ The standards cover many Court. aspects of health and safety within buildings as well as Purpose of this Guide energy consumption and This guide will take you accessibility. The Building through the Building Regulations are detailed Control process. technical standards set to It is not a substitute for ensure that the building professional advice but it stock within England and aims to show how your Wales is built to a project will be affected by reasonable standard and the Building Regulations. that it meets the needs of The guide is divided into the population. chapters that contain advice The Building Regulations about typical building are minimum standards, projects and it is hoped that they do not cover quality of when you have read the workmanship beyond that guide you will have a better required to ensure the basic understanding of what is safe construction of the involved in a domestic building. It is possible building project. Guide to Extending your Home 3 CAPE CONTRACTS SCAFFOLDING • TV & FM Aerial For all your scaffolding InstallationInstallation requirements, domestic, • Repair Service Available small builders, roofers and Ask for a quote maintenance contractors. • Freeview Specialist Tel: Mobile: Stewart Kemp 07966 249982 Electrician - Domestic & Industrial Office: 01787 269759 Phone: 01440 712570 Mobile: 07765 882387 Established 1972 D.W. TONGE ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS NICEIC Approved Contractor Commercial & domestic work undertaken From a single socket to a full re-wire 63 Edinburgh Road, Newmarket CB8 0QD 01638 665040 07702 410754 / 07855 770062 4 Guide to Extending your Home Domestic projects that • Installation of Dormer professional advice. There require Building Window or Rooflight are a number of ways of Regulations consent • Underpinning obtaining this including: include:- • Re-Roofing 1. Appointing an architect/ technician or building • Extensions • Upgrading a thermal element surveyor: these will • Garage Conversions prepare drawings and • Disabled Access • Loft Conversions designs for your • Change of use proposal, obtain the • Cellar Conversions If you are considering a necessary Approvals • Structural Alterations e.g. building project and you and if required they will Removing load bearing are unsure as to whether also help you to find a walls it will require Building suitable builder and • Alterations to drainage, Regulations consent manage the project hot water or heating please feel free to contact for you. us and we will be happy to systems 2. Appointing a design & advise you. • New or Replacement build company: these Windows The Building companies offer a one- Regulations Process stop shop for • Cavity Wall Insulation If your project needs construction projects; • Electrical Work Building Regulations their design department will prepare the • Some Garages consent you will need to make a Building necessary drawings and • Some Conservatories Regulations application. obtain the necessary Approvals and their • Chimneys, flues and How to Proceed fireplaces construction Unless you are experienced departments will • Bay Windows in construction you will translate these drawings • Solar Panels need to get some into reality. 3. Using an experienced builder: some builders have experience in carrying out domestic projects and may be able to offer you a package similar to the design & build companies. Making a Building Regulations Application There are two ways of making a Building Regulations application:- Guide to Extending your Home 5 RUST & KEMP BUILDERS LIMITED ESTABLISHED 1973 For A First Class Personal Service From A Family Business Established Since 1973 • Domestic, Commercial and Industrial • Housing, Extensions, Conversions and Alterations • Barn Conversions, Church Buildings and Repairs • Insurance Repairs, Underpinning and Piling • Disabled Works • Plumbing and Heating • Painting and Decorating • Free Estimates Unit 13, The Quadrangle Centre The Drift, Nacton Road, Ipswich IP3 9QR Tel: 01473 711077 Fax: 01473 711108 Email: [email protected] Web: www.rustandkemp.co.uk 6 Guide to Extending your Home Full Plans Application are very experienced in the Self Certification type of project that you are This is often thought of as To help you to gain Building undertaking and are fully the traditional way of Regulations approval more aware of the requirements applying for Building easily the government have of the Building Regulations. Regulations Approval. allowed certain trade bodies Under this scheme no The building designer will to self certify their formal Approval of plans is draw up detailed plans and members’ work and to issue issued and work is approved supporting information for Building Regulations on site as it progresses. the proposed scheme and Certificates. Currently the will send them to us To use the Building Notice bodies which can issue together with an application process you or your agent these certificates are:- form and the necessary fee. will need to submit a 1. FENSA –Contractors We will then check the Building Notice application registered with FENSA details and following any form together with a site can issue certificates for necessary consultations and location plan and the replacement windows. liaisons with the building required fee. Work can designer a Building commence 48 hours after 2. CERTAS –Contractors Regulations Approval will the notice has been registered with CERTAS be issued. accepted. can issue certificates for replacement windows. Work can start any time When work commences one after the application has of our surveyors will meet 3. GAS-SAFE – Registered been received although it is with your builder to discuss contractors can issue wise to wait until the your intentions, to agree certificates for scheme has had its initial how the work should be installations and check under the Building carried out, agree when the alterations to gas, hot Regulations, this usually work will need to be water and heating takes between two and inspected and to establish systems so long as the three weeks. whether any further contractor is a Our team of surveyors will information will be required registered installer and liaise with your builder and e.g. structural calculations not just a service inspect the work in progress or drawings. engineer. on site. When the project is When the project is 4. OFTEC –Registered satisfactorily completed a satisfactorily completed a OFTEC installers can Building Regulations Building Regulations issue