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Hi. I'm starting to prepare my own planning application for an extension. The location and site plans offered for sale by those various services, based (as I understand it) on OS maps, all show quite incorrect boundaries for my property and 7 adjacent ones. They don't show a park behind us and...

Hello. I'm trying to get the ball rolling with a two-storey side extension to my end-of-terrace house. On the surface it's nothing unusual and the kind of thing that must get done quite often. I have sketches and my own plans and plenty to tell someone if they would visit. I've contacted a good...

Can you expand on that bit - who are you talking about? What kind of person? I would happily pay someone a reasonable amount for a proper "consultation" about it, if only I knew who to ask! This whole thing is a mystery to me currently. I wouldn't be committing to anything, it would just be...

Oh really? There's one around the corner that's been taken out flat along the original front elevation, so maybe it's possible? I could set the front back a bit but then, indeed, the roof becomes a bit tricky. Come to think of it, the little L-shape I put on those plans makes the roof awkward as...

I would expect, based on this house being very "normal" and this kind of extension being quite a common job, a +/-5k estimate to be quite reasonable in the first instance? But I really don't know, I'm just trying to start somewhere at all, and don't know who the first person is I need to talk to.

So how does it normally work, will a builder not be willing to consider the job until I've gambled £3000 (estimate from another thread) on plans, got PP, etc.? If that is the case, who is it that actually comes to the site, looks around, eyeballs the existing structure and ground, and tells me...

Will these "plans" (below) give a builder enough of an idea about the feasibility of my extension idea and talk through it with me, and give a rough estimate (say +/- £5000), given that my house is of a very common type for the area and similar extensions are not unheard of around here? I'm...

Does the entire "live" pipe run need to be external, i.e. no part of it passing under walls or rooms? I could stick it round the back of the house next to the electricity meter, but then the pipes would be under the new extension still, even if the meter wasn't in it.

I plan to 1) let the new bedrooms, probably to normal modern humans who use hot water, and 2) sell the house one day, so I should probably just hold my nose and make it all 'horrible and modern. Something just came to mind - say I had the gas meter moved so that it was on the outside of the new...

Naturally, I turn the pilot light off if I'm not going to use the boiler for weeks/months on end. Hell, I lived here from January '13 to November '14 with a completely drained system, haha. I worked out that my pilot light costs around £90/year.... Yea, I'm aware of this issue but haven't...

Thanks for the replies, guys. Should I get the plans for the shell of the extension sorted out yet or devise them in conjunction with a plumber, so that I can sure it all fits together properly? I guess he'd have to go in and do stuff before the floors went down, anyway. I'd have to do some...

I'm considering an extension on the side of my two-bedroom end-of-terrace house. The current heating system is a Baxi Bermuda backboiler serving five radiators (two upstairs, three down). I had an opportunity to replace it with a modern boiler but my best quote of £2400 meant that it made no...

Thanks, yea - I'm definitely aware of that, but my post wasn't meant to encompass the whole project, haha. It was just one specific query. I've found before that writing too many unrelated things in my posts means that my main point gets missed.

When building on top of an existing single-storey structure (in this case a flat-roofed rear extension), how much damage is usually done to the rooms under the new work? For example - are the existing ceilings taken down completely, all the timbers taken out and replaced, or is the new floor...

Building on top of this single-storey extension (it's double-skin brick but otherwise unknown details e.g. foundations and such) in the same kind of footprint, or possibly only going out about half as far back if necessary. But I imagine the price wouldn't scale very well like that, so I'd hope...

I'd like to install this into a wooden "wall" (it's a shed largely made of pallets, as it happens - but assume it's like a stud wall): http://i.imgur.com/a0sXQ8S.jpg http://i.imgur.com/T1ZM0R6.jpg How is it supposed to be done? I could just use a load of flat brackets to secure it to the...

How do I work with this mirror, bearing two of these along its top edge: Clearly something on the wall is meant to slot in there but do I just use anything like a thick screw, or is there a special wall-side fitting that I need to use? Thanks

I have some of this stuff: http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Tile-Sealer-Satin-1L/p/166071 Which I want to put onto quarry tiles. The tile adhesive and grout are months old and completely set by now. The instructions on the bottle ask me to clean the floor thoroughly first - which makes...

Yes, I understand that. My question is more to do with what sizes are expected to be available - I had assumed my cupboards were not an unusual size.

My wall cupboards are, externally, W 1200 x H 600mm, with doors around 597mm square. This 597mm is a common figure in the long lists of "standard" door sizes available from various suppliers I've looked at online, but only in one dimension. The only place I can find that sells 597 x 597 ones is...