Planning a change to your home? Explore the costs, consents and practical decisions behind a building project.
7 resources to explore
Nobody can quote your extension from a web page. What we can do is set out the brackets honestly, explain which decisions move the number most, and flag the costs that get left out of the headline figure.
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Before cost, feasibility. Most of what determines whether a loft conversion is straightforward or expensive is decided by two measurements you can take yourself in ten minutes.
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“Basement conversion” covers work ranging from a fortnight to the better part of a year, with budgets an order of magnitude apart. Establishing which one you're contemplating is the first useful step.
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A great deal of domestic building work doesn't need permission. What catches people out isn't the rule — it's the four situations where the usual rights simply don't apply to their address.
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Party wall procedure is the most common reason a start date slips, and almost always because it was started too late. Here's what triggers it, what it costs, and the timescales you have to build in.
Read guideAge alone doesn't decide it, and a quote from someone who benefits from the answer being yes isn't a diagnosis. Here's how to find out properly, and what a rewire actually involves.
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Three different designations that people use interchangeably and that mean quite different things. Which one applies to your house determines what you can do to it.
Read guideBrowse common questions about working with Alico and planning your project.
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