Hello, looking for some advice from any experienced home renovators out there.We are hopefully soon to exchange on a solidly-built (we hope) 50s' built ex-council semi. We'd like to extend to create a bigger kitchen/ diner/ family room and a new bedroom over the top. There's plenty of room around the property (large garden and side return) and neighbours have done similar.
I was wondering about the feasibility of doing the extension in an unconventional way - in particular, using SIPs (structural panels) or some other prefabricated building materials.
let's just imagine the planners gave the green light . How durable are these extensions? Would we have problems when we came to sell due to having put an unconventionally-built extension on?
I'm attracted by the faster build time and good insulation properties of SIPs and would appreciate any thoughts/ experience.
Also would appreciate any pointers on how the build cost compares to standard brick and block construction.
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SIPs/ prefab extensions - anyone done one?
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narmada · 26/06/2011 14:23
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