London House Extensions

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. Sterling Home Improvements have many years experience in building home extensions as well as liaising with architects and structural engineers and keeping to designs exactly.

Popular House Extensions 

	Conservatory 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 Extensions 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 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 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.

How we will help you

Planning 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.

Here's how it will work:

1. The estimator is a veteran builder with 15 years experience in the trade. He will visit you at the property and thoroughly review the plans and drawings provided by the architect or structural engineer. The house extension builder
2. A project timeline will be worked out between you and the Production Manager, who will be overseeing the home extension builder at all times. You will have a direct line to the Production Manager at all times for any queries or changes your wish to make during the course of the project.

Drawings and planning permission

Planning Permission for Extensions

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

House Extension tips

Purpose for building an home 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 home extension

Where do you plan to start your home 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 of a house extension 

If your extension is actually going to cost more than anticipated or that you end up sacrificing more than gaining something from your house extension, consider doing a few changes in your blueprint before proceeding. The estimator can provide such suggestions once the quote has been sent to you.