House extensions are one of the best ways to maximize on your space and increase the value of your London property should you decide to sell in the future.General Builder’s Home Improvements have many years experience in building home extensions as well as liaising with architects and structural engineers and keeping to designs exactly.
Convservatory Extension
A conservatory extension can be a great way to add extra leisure space to your house with an area that abounds in natural light and greatly increases the pleasures of living in your house year-round. However, many people build conservatories and then find that they don’t use them as much as they thought they would. This can be because of any number of factors but is mostly due to faults in the design and planning process. We can help you decide whether a conservatory extension is truly the best option for your needs.
Rear Extension
If you have sufficient space, a rear extension has enormous potential to change the very nature of your house. This type of home extension can be combined with internal alterations to open your kitchen up to your back garden and create a light, airy, open-plan area that can be used as a combined kitchen, dining, living and entertaining area.Turning your kitchen and back area into more of a focal point can have immense advantages but costs also escalate quickly so it’s necessary to have a thorough, well-costed plan in place.
Side Return Extension
A side return extension is usually used to create extra space in existing rooms or to re-arrange your house to create extra bedrooms, bathrooms or living areas. Side return extensions can also be combined with rear extensions to form a wrap-around extension. Although wrap-around extensions are often quite time-consuming and cause a significant amount of disturbance, they offer you the maximum amount of flexibility to re-order the layout of your house to exactly suit your needs the best option for you needs place.
HOW WILL HELP YOU
You will be provided with a team of qualified tradesmen for your house extension. A house extension requires every type of skill, starting from the architect and structural engineer to the setting of the foundation, building the structure and all the way through to finally doing the paint touch-ups at the conclusion of the project.
PLANNING AND PERMISSION
No need to look elsewhere for planning permission. As a builder and architectural design firm, we provide everything in-house and will even assist you with getting your plans through your Council’s Planning Department. See our planning page for more information