Rear kitchen extension
A single-storey extension on the back of a mid-terrace house, with a new kitchen and glazed doors to the garden.
The old back wall came out in one day, so the beam was on site before the wall was touched.
- Area of work
- 16.6 m²
- Weeks on site
- 10
- Structure changed
- Yes
Loft conversion with a rear dormer
A bedroom, a shower room and a staircase in the roof of a two-storey house.
The new landing sits over the old stairwell, so no bedroom door below moved.
- Area of work
- 21.0 m²
- Weeks on site
- 9
- Structure changed
- Yes
Whole-house renovation, 1930s semi
Every room stripped back, rewired, replumbed and finished, with a small porch added at the front.
The family stayed in two rooms for the first five weeks, so the work ran from the back of the house forward.
- Area of work
- 74.0 m²
- Weeks on site
- 22
- Structure changed
- Yes
Bathroom and WC made one, in a flat
A narrow bathroom and the WC next to it became one wet room with a larger shower.
The floor needed a new fall to the drain without lifting the ceiling of the flat below.
- Area of work
- 7.8 m²
- Weeks on site
- 4
- Structure changed
- No
Garden room at the end of a long garden
A timber-frame room used as an office, with its power supply run from the house.
Everything came through a narrow side passage, so the frame was built as panels.
- Area of work
- 12.6 m²
- Weeks on site
- 6
- Structure changed
- No
Opening between kitchen and dining room
A wall taken out between two rooms and replaced with a beam, so the ground floor reads as one space.
The wall carried a bedroom floor, so propping went in before any brick came out and stayed four days.
- Area of work
- 12.2 m²
- Weeks on site
- 2
- Structure changed
- Yes