Finally finalised Planning permission plans :)

[Welshbeef]

So after 3 long years of chewing the fat we have agreed on the (8th iteration of plans..).

8weeks++ before we know but a build thread will be forthcoming to this utter novice & shockingly bad DIYer.
Really excited about it and we're totally sold on the plans (I have a man cave too ).

This isn't being done for profit rather we utterly love the area we live in , kids are in school so don't want to lose catchment and the next step up houses are hardly ever on the market most when they come on are in need of mega £ spent on them and vs what we are doing M2 wise will be smaller...


Anyway size of the new 4 bed semi will be 214m2, c90m2 more space which as far as I gather is pretty decent size for a 4 bed/meets our requirements.
Specific points of note so far the rear extension will be a gable 14foot high at its peak 6 bi folds wide hanging log burner 4 unit wide Island 2deep.

Reading (Emmer green area) getting quotes in soon so anyone with any good contacts please PM would very much appreciate it.

[sidekickdmr]

Good luck with it all!

So are you building in your current garden, or demolishing existing house?

[Welshbeef]

sidekickdmr said:

Good luck with it all!

So are you building in your current garden, or demolishing existing house?

It's a double side extension and single rear gable extension (vaulted ceiling).

[jdwoodbury]

wish you the best of luck with it, just kicking ours off now. Several extension threads on PH starting the last few weeks...must be the season ;-)

[Welshbeef]

With a good tail wind maybe this time next year it will all be finished..


I'd love us to be complete fully a fair bit before Xmas 2017 and then host Xmas for the family also a good street party for New Year's Eve (house is too small. Urgently to host the street )

[dazwalsh]

Cant beat a good build thread. Lots of pics please

[Welshbeef]

So this is the exterior plan.

Current house is a 3 bed semi with 1 upstairs bathroom.
New plans 4 bed semi with smallest room 11.5m2 (both new rooms roughly identical to this). During our current 3rd bedroom to be the new family bathroom and the en suite. Downstairs adding a utility room, widening the downstairs toilet by 35% and then having a kitchen diner area c8.6mx 6m (this extends out 4m into he garden with the remaining 4m turned into a patio. Garage will be 5mxc3.2m. Kitchen diner will have vaulted ceiling on the extension part - with steels ensuring its pillarless.

[jas xjr]

glad you have bi-folds , the ph must-have . good luck with the build , and please keep us updated with photos.

[Welshbeef]

This is the end result we want from the Kitchen diner - the room in the above pics is marginally shorter than our plans but our width is 1.1m narrower. We want the island to be 4 wide and 2 deep - which mean the gap between the island and the side units will be 1.1m narrower but we still have plenty to play with (I think).

Plus ours will have a log burner in the corner beside the bi fold doors and the dining table will be the 90 degrees to the picture and then a L shape sofa facing the log burner + very large TV on the side wall.

[Welshbeef]

Edited those pics have the lantern roof we've seen a number and we'll the boss doesn't like it so I suggested the gable instead with vaulted ceiling and she's happy.

[Welshbeef]

These two were missed from the above post - give more detail on what we want to achieve.

[Welshbeef]

These must be over 2mb hence not getting uploaded.

This is he last of the pics we want to replicate.

[Welshbeef]

Pre the plans a few builders gave ball park budget costs of £120-130k but this was with the 2nd storey extending out backwards by 4m too -we are not doing that any more.

The question I have is from the above kitchen what sort of budget is that piece of he jigsaw ? (Mrs wants the Neff "slide and glide oven" as it's funky but also stops the kids running head into an open door.

[Welshbeef]

jas xjr said:

glad you have bi-folds , the ph must-have . good luck with the build , and please keep us updated with photos.

We're totally sold on them - we love the garden and being able to open it right up makes it ideal. We have a lot of family gatherings & big BBQ's and also just us as what will be a family of 5 so maximising the space just works so well.

We will have bi folds on both sides one to the side patio and the big 6 opening onto the garden.

[jdwoodbury]

Welshbeef said:

Pre the plans a few builders gave ball park budget costs of £120-130k but this was with the 2nd storey extending out backwards by 4m too -we are not doing that any more.

The question I have is from the above kitchen what sort of budget is that piece of he jigsaw ? (Mrs wants the Neff "slide and glide oven" as it's funky but also stops the kids running head into an open door.

I have seen that kitchen also on pinterest, its a similar style that we will go for but the missus wants contrasting colored units. Gauging price is really tricky as some bespoke stuff can cost £50k+ for a kitchen that size. I have a family friend who runs a kitchen studio giving my plans the once over, hopefully he can tell me where my ballpark is, TBH my budget allows for about £20k on the kitchen...but I think it will end up more with appliances.

[Welshbeef]

I know log burner is at the end of the work - but as we are in a period of pause and wait for permissions.

So we've stayed in a few cottages with Log burners and from what I've seen a sandyford brand seems pretty good. Below is a pic of one we used recently - didn't measure it but it looks similar to the width of a std kitchen unit. We like one opening big glass to enjoy the flames , not hanging from the wall.



Thoughts? We want a wow burner but solid one opening not crazy on £

[jules_s]

Please get the bi-folds detailed with level access. Daft not to.

[Welshbeef]

jules_s said:

Please get the bi-folds detailed with level access. Daft not to.

Sorry naive to this but can you explain that?

[jules_s]

Your elevations show a step down from DPC below the bifolds

If it were me, I would have the internal/external levels the same to give a proper 'through' feel

[Welshbeef]

jules_s said:

Your elevations show a step down from DPC below the bifolds

If it were me, I would have the internal/external levels the same to give a proper 'through' feel

Got you and yes we will certainly do that