Hello
Hoping someone could give me some information. We have a window in our dining room about 1.26 meters wide by 1.32 high. We want to open it up to a French uPVC door ideally 6 foot wide. I can't see any odd issues. It is Accrington red brick and an end terrace house. Although I have done lots of DIY, I don't fancy opening the hole up to fit the new window and having the responsibility of fitting the new lintel as the new door will be about 2 foot bigger than he existing window.
Three questions if anyone can help:
1. Any idea of what I should expect for a rough price for the work of knocking the new hole through? -so for pulling out the existing upvc window, Grind out for new concrete lintel (internal leaf). Install cavity closures with dpc ready for the new door. Not even removal of the old brick waste. So basically labour costs and materials (lintel??)
2. Since the window is 1.32m tall and starts 0.9m off the floor, when the bottom bricks are removed it will leave a whole to the height of 2.22m. Now that is pretty tall for a door! Would it be possible to have a glass panel fitted above the window and will this cost significantly more?
3. Can anyone forsee any difficulties in fitting the French doors myself? I've built a porch and fitted uPVC windows before but they have always been much smaller! I just wanted to hear your opinion of fitting the door if be hole is cut for me.
Any advice or information would be more than welcome.
Chris [/b]
Hoping someone could give me some information. We have a window in our dining room about 1.26 meters wide by 1.32 high. We want to open it up to a French uPVC door ideally 6 foot wide. I can't see any odd issues. It is Accrington red brick and an end terrace house. Although I have done lots of DIY, I don't fancy opening the hole up to fit the new window and having the responsibility of fitting the new lintel as the new door will be about 2 foot bigger than he existing window.
Three questions if anyone can help:
1. Any idea of what I should expect for a rough price for the work of knocking the new hole through? -so for pulling out the existing upvc window, Grind out for new concrete lintel (internal leaf). Install cavity closures with dpc ready for the new door. Not even removal of the old brick waste. So basically labour costs and materials (lintel??)
2. Since the window is 1.32m tall and starts 0.9m off the floor, when the bottom bricks are removed it will leave a whole to the height of 2.22m. Now that is pretty tall for a door! Would it be possible to have a glass panel fitted above the window and will this cost significantly more?
3. Can anyone forsee any difficulties in fitting the French doors myself? I've built a porch and fitted uPVC windows before but they have always been much smaller! I just wanted to hear your opinion of fitting the door if be hole is cut for me.
Any advice or information would be more than welcome.
Chris [/b]