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The plans. version 1.

TheMitchells

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After building the shower room, we had a free shot at planning so I put in for an extension down the side of the bungalow, to create a utility room and this was granted.  But we did not think my parents could cope with the building work so it was never implimented.  And, as they do little cooking, the current kitchen is enough for them.  See origional and permitted plans.

However, now that we are planning to move into the bungalow ourselves in the future, we would be  looking to remove the flat roofed lounge extension and extend across the whole back to give a larger open plan kitchen/sitting room/dining area. 

 

We now need to upgrade the current heating system/addition of ASHP and it would need to have capacity for the new extension too.  So we need a plan for whenever we do the renovation. 

This turned out to be far harder than I thought.  The side would be extended out 2m, which would then extend to the current length of the lounge.  We would like to have a pitched roof, giving a valted ceiling, tied into the current roof. 

 

The new exension would have patio doors to the garden and we'd need another door into the garden (I assume we need a second door rather than use the patio doors).  But positions of those and new windows are flexible.  We looked at what furniture we would be taking with us, and then after much discussion, came up with plan 1.  I am thinking the utility room could have a complete wall of units, including the washing machine and a tall fridge freezer, then just an under-counter fridge in the actual kitchen.  We dont have a dishwasher (thats his job) and am thinking an induction hob could sit on the kitchen island.  But our plan does not look like we'd have many kitchen units.  However, he plans to get rid of anything we dont currently use so is convinced we'd manage. 

(that arguement does not apply to the garage and workshop - just the kitchen!😁)

 

So with our plan, we can now go ahead with renewing the heating system with an ASHP, radiators in the bedrooms, bathrooms and one large one in the entrance to the lounge.  I am hoping the large night storage unit at the far end of the lounge (under a large window) will be able to stay for now.  Then, we'd install UFH in the new extension eventually. 

 

My main concern would be to see if we can have a single beam across the whole exension, to avoid a post/pillar in the middle of the open plan room.  It would need to be nearly 8m.  If it were a gulam beam, that would make a fabulous feature with the vaulted ceiling.

 

Any thoughts??

origional plan.jpg

permitted extension.jpg

proposed plan 1.jpg

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MikeGrahamT21

Absolutely love how you've labelled your seating positions on the 3 seater 😄

 

Definitely recommend a dishwasher, you'll never look back and will save loads on water bills.

 

I think your beam question would be for an SE, maybe someone on here has done something similar, but thats a fair span unsupported, unlikely to be impossible but could be financially unviable. What load would it be holding? You are at an advantage that there is no living space above, so there would only be dead loads to calculate.

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Mike

An 8m glulam beam should be no problem, but you will need a structural engineer, mainly to verify any upgrade to the walls that are carrying it - for example you may need a wall / piers that are wider that the 'standard' 100mm. I've done it myself with a 6m clear span onto 140mm blockwork.

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