London house extensions are actually a good way to maximize your lot area and increase the value of your London property should you decide to sell in the future. Our London builders have many years experience in building extensions as well as liaising with architects and structural engineers and keeping to designs exactly.

The first important thing is deciding what type of extension you want, and of course which one is feasable and if planning is involved.

Conservatory

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 is truly the best option for your needs.

Rear Extensions

If you have sufficient space, a rear extension has enormous potential to change the very nature of your house. This type of 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 extensions

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 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.

Planning Permission for Extensions

A new law, active from October 1st 2008 has removed many of the restrictions in planning extensions and lofts. See our planning restrictions removed page for more information.

House Extension tips

Purpose for building an extension

You may need extra rooms for your extended family, guest rooms, a nursery perhaps. Keep in mind that when you do add bedrooms, you also need to add bathrooms because there is no point in making everyone comfortable in their own bedrooms and then making them fall in line in the bathroom downstairs.

Location of your extension

Where do you plan to start your extension from? If you are simply going to split a room in two in order to pass through to the extension, you’ve defeated the purpose of your extension, which is really to give everyone more space or at least not deprive someone of his original space.

Cost 

If your extension is actually going to cost more than anticipated or that you end up sacrificing more than gaining something from your extension, consider doing a few changes in your blueprint before proceeding.