House Extensions in Blaydon

All of them. Around Blaydon Burn and Winlaton the stock is mostly terraced streets through the older part of Blaydon and Winlaton, and further out Blaydon has later estates up the bank and around Stella and Ryton Village edge. The right approach depends far more on the age and construction of the individual property than on the town.

Blaydon comes under Gateshead Council for both planning and building control. That is where a building regulations application is made and where the inspector who signs the work off comes from. Permitted development limits and a full building regulations approval is what they will be looking for.

Not always. A large number of single storey rear extensions fall within permitted development, but the allowances depend on whether the house is detached, semi detached or terraced, how far it projects, the eaves and ridge heights and whether anything has already been added. Building regulations approval is a separate requirement and applies either way.

They can. The Blaydon area was heavily worked for coal and there is industrial ground along the riverside, so ground investigation is a sensible early spend on anything with new foundations near the valley floor. We raise it at the quote stage rather than after the digger arrives, so you know whether an investigation or an assessment is likely to be needed.

In most cases yes. There is normally a short disruptive period when the opening between old and new is formed, and we agree that week with you in advance so you can plan around it.

Foundations are dug and inspected before anything is poured. If the inspector requires a deeper or wider foundation than allowed for, we price the extra work openly and show you the reason rather than absorbing it quietly into the final bill.

We match as closely as the available brick allows and take samples before ordering. On older property an exact match is often impossible, so the usual approach is to choose the closest available brick and use a mortar mix and joint profile that lets the two read together.

Yes. Alongside Blaydon we regularly carry out house extensions in Ryton, Whickham, Rowlands Gill and across the wider North East, working from our base in Blaydon-on-Tyne.

A structural engineer produces the calculations for beams and lintels. If you do not already have one we can point you toward engineers we work with regularly, and we build to whatever the approved calculations specify.

Possibly, depending on exactly where the property sits. Gateshead Council covers both planning and building control here, and being based in Blaydon means we can get to a site meeting the same day rather than fitting it around a long drive. If your property is affected, the design is shaped around that from the start rather than revised afterwards.