When building a two storey rear extension, what's the normal order of doing things in situations where the existing back wall won't be present in the finished house?
Would you tend to build the new shell, knitting the new brickwork in to the outer skin of the existing house, and then when the roof is on knock through and knit in the internal leaf brick work, make good etc?
Or would you go for maximum disruption and take the back wall down on both storeys, (propping the floors and roof if required) and then get the new extension built and watertight damn fast?
I can see the attraction of the former option, but there's always going to be a degree of re-work when the cavity is exposed knocking through, so it's probably not the most efficient, but probably the one that the homeowner would prefer...
Gary
Would you tend to build the new shell, knitting the new brickwork in to the outer skin of the existing house, and then when the roof is on knock through and knit in the internal leaf brick work, make good etc?
Or would you go for maximum disruption and take the back wall down on both storeys, (propping the floors and roof if required) and then get the new extension built and watertight damn fast?
I can see the attraction of the former option, but there's always going to be a degree of re-work when the cavity is exposed knocking through, so it's probably not the most efficient, but probably the one that the homeowner would prefer...
Gary