House Extensions in Langley Park

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.

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.

Yes, and it is worth knowing early. The village grew directly on top of a working coalfield and much of it falls within a Coal Authority Development High Risk Area, so a mining risk assessment before foundation work is normal practice here. Where that applies we say so before you commit, not once the trench is open.

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.

Everything from colliery terraces built for the pit, mostly solid wall construction through to later infill housing on the flatter ground near the village edge. Which of those you have changes the method more than the postcode does, which is why we look before we quote.

We do. Durham, Esh Winning, Consett are all within our normal working area for house extensions, as is most of Tyne and Wear, County Durham and south east Northumberland.

It depends on the address. Solid wall colliery terraces bring their own building regulations questions around insulation and damp, and Durham County Council will look at how a new element meets the old wall as closely as it looks at the new element itself. We check the designation before any design work goes far enough to be expensive to change.

It is Durham County 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.

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.