Hi all,

We are looking at possibly buying a house in the area we like that has scope for a single story extension to the rear. This would give us more room to make a bigger kitchen/diner.

Anyone had an extension on their house??

If so post some pics up if you want to give me an idea on whats achievable!!

Ta

Steve

Just finishing mine and anything is achievable…. It just costs more!!!!

Not got one but sort of want one . check out the home extension company they do single story SIP extensions which look very nice on their website but I can’t find any independent reviews.

Can’t help with a single storey extension, but here’s a pic of my 3 storey one 🙂

We’ve just cleared downstairs and the garden ready for an extension. Getting and adapted bathroom/ wet room and bedroom built on ground floor for when little dean is in a spiker cast again. Bit grumpy really as i loose the nice big living room, half of which will be the bathroom.

I’m just finishing up my extension too so haven’t got any presentable photo’s as yet. Its a full width single storey extension on the back. The back part of the house had a dining room on one side, a kitchen on the other and a small, and useless, utility room shoehorned in the middle (typical modern house stuffing too much in). So I opened up the back by getting rid of the utility room, and built the extension on the back to create a large open plan area. The extension is about 8m wide and 3.5m out so basically doubles the area at the back of the house and is nice and spacious. The roof is a gable end roof with 4 skylights

I’ve effectively split the open plan area (the existing dining room and kitchen area plus the extended area) into quarters. The kitchen has remained where it currently is, there is a dining area in the extension quarter in front of the kitchen (a nice breakfast bar dividing the area. There is a living room area next to that in the extension area, and the quarter where the dining room used to be is being left as an open space. I’ll probably put a table with desktop computer there and i’d love a piano too.

On the back wall we’ve got two sets of bi-folding doors which are a triumph and I can’t wait for next summer as it’ll really open up the back to the garden when the weather is nice.

Its a fantastic space, nice and large, I can’t wait to have it all finished, it’ll transform the way we use the house. We’ve been in the house for about 12yrs now, I just wish we’d done it years ago.

The extension is on the right hand side, 8m x 12m, probably not quite what your after, but this was built mainly by myself, i’m not a builder, if you can use a tape measure and like to be hands on, it’s pretty straightforward.
Took a half a day to get good enough on the machine to dig foundations.

Before…
https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-OLg4QQzNaCw/T4VDVgSZGgI/AAAAAAAAWDc/7okL2bzU0DI/s576/DSC00546.jpg%5B/Img%5D

After…
[Img]https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-uJTFL8gHywU/UJeO0UBCbfI/AAAAAAAAXwA/xJC0OatWR_Y/s576/DSC00879.jpg[/Img]

How much decking? 😯

Only took took 10 seconds to add in Sketchup to neaten up the rendering. The trouble is I showed the wife.

OK I dont know how to link to dropbox… give us a clue..

nice decking, should make good kindling soon. 🙂

, if you can use a tape measure and like to be hands on, it’s pretty straightforward.

Excellent. Thinking of doing the same myself, steels are my concern. Did you have to add any beams where you knocked through to the main house? How did you get on with that? I’ve put in lintels for windows in a single story building before but never a big steel in a double skin wall. Process seems simple enough but wondering if I’m missing something?

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The flat roofed bit – It’s only in Sketchup so far. I need to find somebody who fancies trying to build this in SIPS.

The Brick, i didn’t use any steels, the roof is constructed with loft trusses, had to use a 12m telehandler to get them up there.
The worst part of the build was pouring the foundations, 12 cubic metres of concrete, i would’t wish that day on my worst enemy.

5 bed house at the top of our road already has all the rooms you could expect to find in a house but they are having an extension built that’s only about 8×8, on the back of their kitchen. I cannot for the life of me figure out what it’s going to be. They already have a utility room.

The worst part of the build was pouring the foundations, 12 cubic metres of concrete, i would’t wish that day on my worst enemy.

Really, I found it quite easy:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/daJgeX]Concrete pumping truck[/url] by brf, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/daJGqJ]Feeding the pump (Lorry #3)[/url] by brf, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/daJjeu]Pumping concrete 60m[/url] by brf, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/daJjSC]Pumping concrete 60m[/url] by brf, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/daJicv]Pumping concrete 60m[/url] by brf, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/daJCQP]Finally, all the blockages cleared![/url] by brf, on Flickr

[url=https://flic.kr/p/db27PX]Slab with about a metre cubed of overspill removed[/url] by brf, on Flickr