Joengregory

Hi two questions, looking to do a rear extension and will be getting an architect in next month or so but curious on couple of things. Plan is to build extension on back of house and knock through for big open plan living space. Why do some builds knock through before starting the build and others build extension get it water tight then knock through. Surely the later is always the way to go. 2nd our existing kitchen and dining room was made open plan years ago so has an rsj in the middle running to the front of the house. If we build an extension the wall where that rsj goes to would be gone. Assume we'd just need a larger one in its place to run to front of new extension and then 2 addition rsj crossing it for the openings. Appreciate that structurle engineers would eventually answer these for me, but just like to know in advanced as I definitely don't want a Piller in the midde of the open plan room. Cheers

Thanks Marvin, yes I'm not sure it will buy literally 1 mile away homes with no off-street parking can extend, guess that's just weird planning rules. Hopefully some one will pitch in with order or magnitude, i was expecting extension to be about 70k so wondered what it would be if it's just garage and upstairs.

Hi everyone, first time posting so hope I'm in the correct section. Currently trying to extend house with double side extension, which will require knocking down the garage, pilling, then building. However, initial plan has been rejected as 4 bed house in this area requires 3 off road parking spaces. We are going to challenge as we have 2 offroad and we are in a cul-de-sac thst has 3 spaces directly outside our house... Anyway, we still would like to do it, and the only option we could consider is to rebuild garage with bedroom above to fulfil parking requirements. Does anyone know rough cost wise what the delta between the two options are. Basically im looking to understand if it would still be worthwhile going ahead with. Thanks in advance.