House Extensions in Hebburn

We do. Jarrow, Felling, Boldon Colliery are all within our normal working area for house extensions, as is most of Tyne and Wear, County Durham and south east Northumberland.

Yes. We work to the approved plans, book the stage inspections and meet the inspector on site at foundations, damp proof course, drainage and completion.

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.

It depends on the address. South Tyneside Council covers planning and building control here, and it publishes its own guidance which differs in detail from the Gateshead documents people often find first. We check the designation before any design work goes far enough to be expensive to change.

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.

It is South Tyneside Council. People sometimes send paperwork to a neighbouring authority because of the postal address or the historic county, and that costs time rather than money. For house extensions you will need permitted development limits and a full building regulations approval.

A straightforward single storey rear extension usually runs to somewhere between eight and twelve weeks on site once groundworks start, depending on size, ground conditions, the roof type and how quickly decisions on finishes come back.

Yes, and it is worth knowing early. The riverside strip carries made ground from the yards and the wider area sits on worked coal measures, so what is under the plot depends heavily on which part of town it is in. Where that applies we say so before you commit, not once the trench is open.

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.

Everything from terraced streets through the older town and toward the river through to post war and later housing at Hebburn New Town and Monkton. Which of those you have changes the method more than the postcode does, which is why we look before we quote.