Hi all

Thought I would share my little house extension with you.
I bought this 3-bedroom property in May 2005 with the intention of extending it that same year. Unfortunately within 1 wk of moving in my Scooby engine went so I had to postpone whilst I spent on the car instead .



Our brief was to extend the small kitchen/diner into the attached garage, install a downstairs wc, build a separate detatched garage wide enough to take a car i.e. bigger than the daft one already there!, and turn bedroom 2 into a master bedroom with ensuite
As I used to be a draughtsman and now a Project Manager, I decided to take both roles to save on costs. And as I was working local at the time it was ideal to start work in '06.

We decided to commence with the building work in May 2006. I projected that our budget would cover for all building and services work and get us the new kitchen in. The upstairs would wait until early '07.

First we tackled the new garage. A small plot of land came with the property next to the original garage.




This meant taking down the wall as the new garage would act as the new retaining wall too.

Before erecting scaffolding the footing was laid and some of the low-level brickwork.


In the mean time I broke out the floor in the existing garage as it needed insulating. Those jack-hammers kill your wrists!


Progress so far...


Time to get the scaffolders around. There's obviously detail missing here as I didn't take shots of everything.


Roof timbers on. There was a 2 week delay with the garage items. We used the original garage items for the house.

Salvaged roof tiles from original garage in order to blend as well as possible

Outside complete!



Now for the inside. Kitchen area as it was..
The window at the back to be removed and replaced with french doors leading to back garden. Existing single door to be blocked up as the new combi boiler will hang in that corner. Door re-used as a side entrance to garage.

The wall with the pictures on to be removed - existing garage space on other side.

Another shot of the old kitchen area

Wall gone plus most of the old kitchen - we ripped the old kitchen out ourselves.

Beam in place. Calculated by local structural engineer.

Studwork for downstairs loo.

New french doors in place

Boiler hung by an incompetent plumber - he was sacked later as he couldn't commission it

Kitchen units going in








5-ring hob. Just wish we dug deeper into our funds and went for granite worktops!

Wall tiles done with a bit of chrome bling under the hood. Cupboard lights and underlights in.

Utility corner complete. Boiler, washer, tumber dryer hidden behind cupboards.

Done...

Just a detail - swap crap microwave for a cool black one!
(excuse the pink marigolds!)

 

That looks excellent. Kitchen is lovely

 

Ensuite....
1400x900 shower tray down and mixervalve pipework in place.


Plumbing for sink. The rectangular holes in the wall were for shaver sockets (electric toothbrush chargers) and were later removed as it would look crap.


Toilet plumbing.


Shower tray


We tiled throughout -floor and all walls.


Job done


Soft-closing toilet lid in case I let go of it in the night


Mirror with light. This was originally £250 in a specialist shop but was lucky to get it in their sale together with various other wall mounted items for £85


Chrome ladder towel radiator.


Walk-in shower

Done!

 

Nice looking extension ,but from a h+s consultants view that scaffolding is very dodgy

 

Very nice, never seen such a small garage before must have been completely unusable!!

 

Nice

 

From a small second bedoom..



To this..


All solid oak furniture. The bed is very heavy!

Where all the action happends


That's it!

Nick

PS thanks for the nice comments. I recommend it to those who have never done one!

 

Nice one.. In the current climate a much better investment than moving IMHO!

So have the local council collar'ed you for a tax band increase yet?

 

Davey, no because it's still a 3-bed. I would have liked to add a fourth bedroom but the layout didn't offer scope to do so without spending a small fortune.

Nick

 

without wantint to sound cheeky, can i ask what the rough breakdown in cost was for all this work. ive always taken a keen eye in architecture (with being a technical arteests of sorts ) and would be interesting to see your outlay compared to the added value and visual impact youve achieved.

 

Well done and respect. The house looks great. You must be very please. I really admire people who can do this. I think I'm too scared to do it myself, though our kitchen really could do with being extended before we rip it out and put in a new one.

 

Nick, very nice job done there m8, its always a pleasure to read a post with such detail and when it covers construction too

 

Nicely done skoob. We've (me and the wife)+ builder knocked down our attached double garage and rebuilt it for a living room. Wife wanted to make it slightly bigger so it now measures 8metres by 8metres inside, tis a lovely room though. New garage went up, now can house 6 cars or 4 cars and two motorbikes, plus workshop area, with full length storage on top.

Benefits of moving to the countryside, lots of space.

Andy

 

Nice work.
Was the planning permission a smooth process?

 

Nice. Looks great. Wouldnt know where to start lol.

Simon.

P.S Did you nick my alarm clock

 

That has transformed the house :rocks:

Can I be so cheaky to ask the cost of the the building work excluding the kitchen cost.

 

Soft close toilet lids....one of the best things i bought las year

With 4 kids and 4 loos i must have halved the noise output!

 

Nice How do you find the walk in shower, any good, leakage?

 

Very nice, if i had the cash i fancy doing something similar.

 

how much that cost? :wowsmiley:

 

Looks great, well done. I recently refurbed my house inc extension but unlike you lacked the skill to do any of it myself!

Fantastic job and tasteful, enjoy it!

 

I take it you re-used your original garage door and gave it a lick of paint

 

Could only just get my Scoob in and get out without scraping the driver's door.

Yes. the only thing the council were concerned about was making sure I used matching bricks! As if I would use red or something
Also, my neighbour opposite didn't want to lose view of the sky so I had to convince her the garage was single storey and to sit at the same level as the house.

Shower is very good. Although it was in the back of my mind as to whether it would leak. I kept an eye on the ceiling downstairs for ages. Faith in my contractors!

Well spotted, yes we re-used the garage door. Tight budget I'm afraid and I couldn't justify a new one. It's on the list of future changes



Thanks everyone else for comments and for those who asked costs, I've PM'd you.

Nick

 

Very nice job!

Hope the neighbour who's drive is behind your garage didn't give you much grief about turning their drive into a roofless tunnel?

 

Looking at the photos it doesnt seem that close, I for one would be only worried about the light being blocked, it gives the drive added security.

 

You wait till mr Jobs worth wants to re-value your home because some jelous neighbour grassed you up

 

Spider/Doc

At the time my neighbour was a lonely divorcee who wasn't bothered about it. I even gave her the choice of what to put down between her drive and my new garage but she didn't care. After all, she put her house on the market towards the end of our project as she needed to settle money with her ex. Well timed!
My current neighbour would have been a nightmare. He already parks both his cars side by side on his single drive. One of his cars is then only centimeteres away from the wall of our garage
He has recently taken to putting one on his drive and one on his small front lawn. It's comical to watch.

Nick

 

All I need now is for my front to be blocked-paved as it's a mish-mash of base tarmac, knackered tarmac, slabs and grass. We intend to sweep the drive across the front of the house but retain some of the lawn and the "protected tree".
It should improve the frontage no end.
Note the pavement on the front was dropped at the same time as the extension as it was humped and often caught the underside of my car. The local council did this for free but left the edge of the drive lumpy as they wern't allowed to touch it.

Nick

 

Looks very nicely designed and built. Congratulations.

Les

 

Super job, we're currently in the planning phase for something similar in the next year or two, just working out costs etc at the minute.

If you could PM me with costs that would help me a lot.

Where did you get the oak bedroom furniture? Looking for something similar at the minute.