May 20, 2023 | Residential
Planning stage Disclaimer – Views expressed here are of my own and are not legal or building advice! I live in a cul de sac semi detached two storey 1960s property in a leafy London suburb. I’m neither a builder or an architect – I am IT...
Apr 9, 2023 | Residential
The next stage: Quoting and Party wall agreement Party wall agreement I started with the builder quotes but in reality I should have started with the party wall at the same time. Overall it took about two month to complete this process with our next door neighbour,...
Mar 9, 2023 | Residential
Initial quotation idea was obtained from an online calculator after reading various online articles about loft conversion costs. However from what it seems that cost vary greatly across the UK. It seemed that adding a loft conversion in some areas might not be worth...
Feb 9, 2023 | Residential
I wanted to get involved with the building control myself as I was told by the architect that it’s best that you appoint the building control otherwise builder might find their mates so best to be on the side of caution. You can go to private building control...
Jan 9, 2023 | Residential
Colour of the loft tiles One of the things that I had to choose was the colour of the outside tiles for the front of the loft – as per design it had to match existing. So we could go with what our neighbours had installed which mostly was either grey slate tiles...