Hello all!
My wife and I bought an end of terrace house that has had both a one story front extension, a 2 story side extension and a 1 story rear extension.
The side extension has introduced a corridor downstairs which is great. Unfortunately the third bedroom is more of a glorified L Shaped corridor (1.3 metres wide but very long). the L shape is because of where the stairs are.
All of the extensions appear to be double skinned.
- We are hoping to build a second floor to the front extension, it is only a metre long, but we can turn the L shape part of the bedroom into a box style room which would give us a usable space and it would give us a bit more room in the main bedroom to play with.
- We have plans to knock a wall from the very small bathroom that is part of the original house into a section at the top of the L shape corridor bedroom to make it bigger, this will of course shorten the bedroom.
- We were also hoping to possibly extend out the rear extension by 1.5 metres to give us more space that way, this would almost quadruple the bathroom size and increase the 2nd biggest bedroom by an extra third. We could compromise on this by just adding enough so that the bathroom can be extended so it is not on the neighbours side of the house.
- The old exterior wall which is now the inner internal wall of the corridor bedroom is double skinned though it turns single skinned right before it meets the ceiling. Is it possible to pay for someone to turn knock out one skin of bricks easily? (I understand the bricks are interwoven together but I don't have much idea of this sort of thing) It might only add a few extra inches to the room, but they are desperately needed!
- I have considered a loft extension, however the roof is very low and we would need the ceilings on the first floor lowered. Would this be a cheaper and easier (planning permission wise) route rather then muck around with two small extensions? The third bedroom would be turned into a stairwell, though we would have to install a new roof over the whole house as this is currently a flat roof extension.
I have spoken to my attached next door neighbour who has no problems with our plans, though I haven't been able to speak to the neighbours who lives at 90 degrees to us with a path separating our house to their flats.
Ultimately we can just settle for the 1st and 2nd option and just about live with it.
Does any of this seem reasonable/possible considering the house has had extensive remodelling before? Does any of this seem cost effective to you?
In addition, we live in Dagenham at the end of a Banjo, which is a small cul de sac and our house is 15 metres+ away from the road, parking is extremely limited and everything needs to be carried to the house, will construction companies avoid jobs like this or charge extra?
Apologies for all of the questions, this is our first house and I would really like us to stay for some time :)