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First Floor Extension Over existing room

  • 11-07-2020 7:43pm
    #1
    bf
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    Hi,

    Currently looking at buying a detached house, mid 90s build. It has a single storey room to side of house (could be a converted garage) with pitch roof.

    Appreciate each house will be different, but generally would the foundations of houses of this era be sufficient to remove the roof on the single storey and add an extension of the same footprint on first floor, or is it generally a case of knock existing ground floor?

    If it can be done without knocking existing structures is planning required if floor space is below 40 sq m?


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  • #2
    Gumbo
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    bf wrote: »
    Hi,

    Currently looking at buying a detached house, mid 90s build. It has a single storey room to side of house (could be a converted garage) with pitch roof.

    Appreciate each house will be different, but generally would the foundations of houses of this era be sufficient to remove the roof on the single storey and add an extension of the same footprint on first floor, or is it generally a case of knock existing ground floor?

    If it can be done without knocking existing structures is planning required if floor space is below 40 sq m?

    Absolutely no way of knowing without an exploratory hole being dug at a couple of points along the existing walls.

    Doesn’t matter what was laid back when it was built, somebody had to sign it off now to current regulations.


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