Altering a conservatory

[Deleted member 307320]

My conservatory is absolute rubbish, cheap, nasty, badly built and 20 years old.

If I wanted to make it into a "garden room" (brick up one of the sides, add a couple of brick pillars and a tiled roof) would I need to involve BC?

I would be leaving the existing external door between the new room and the rest of the house...

 

[mrrusty]

A cheap conservatory is likely to have rubbish foundations incapable of taking the additional weight. You are better off taking it down and starting again properly.

 

[^woody^]

Apart from the foundation issue, your tiled roof will scupper your plans for no building control, and you plan to have less glazed walls may too.

However, lots of people just do it.

 

[noseall]

My conservatory is absolute rubbish, cheap, nasty, badly built and 20 years old.

If I wanted to make it into a "garden room" (brick up one of the sides, add a couple of brick pillars and a tiled roof) would I need to involve BC?

I would be leaving the existing external door between the new room and the rest of the house...

As per Woods - what are the condition of the foundations, i.e. thickness, depth etc? That's your start point.