Bodmin Porch Extensions (PL31): If you'd like to enhance the appearance of your home in Bodmin, but don't have a big budget to fund the project, a porch extension might be a great option. Building a porch can have a startling effect on the look of your home, while being one of the cheapest and simplest projects you can undertake. A porch will spruce up the main entrance to your home, prevent some heat loss and give a good first impression to visitors.
To assist you with the planning and design of your porch, you'll need to speak with a competent builder in Bodmin. You could also get some inspiration and innovative ideas for your porch on the internet, where there is a wealth of useful information.

If you choose to take the plunge and build a porch, you will firstly need to consider your preferred materials for the walls, the floor, the ceiling, the windows, the roof and the door.
You should also be thinking about furniture, internal design, decoration, storage and the provision of electricity at this stage.
Do Porches Need Planning Permission? When you are building a porch onto the front entrance of your house in Bodmin, you should not need planning permission if: no part of the porch construction is over 3 metres above ground level, your residence is a house, and not a flat, maisonette or other form of building, no element of the construction is within two metres from the boundary of the property or within 2 metres of any highway, the exterior ground floor area isn't more than 3m2.
It is always advisable to have a chat with your local planning office before pressing ahead with your porch. Your chosen Bodmin porch builder will be happy to help you with this process. You should always be sure when it comes to planning permission.

Building Regulations Relating to Porch Construction: Remember that planning permission is different to building regulations. You should not need building regulations approval if the following is true: the present exterior door stays in place, the porch area is under 30m2 and at ground level and all current disabled access is maintained. All electrical installations and certain types of windows in porches will require building regulations approval.
The Benefits: You may be wondering just what benefits can be gained by adding a porch, these include: giving extra character to an otherwise plain doorway, offering a place to leave bicycles, decreasing heat loss through your front door, give you a bit of additional storage space, enhancing the appeal of the property to potential buyers when you need to put it on the market, raising the overall value of your property, making your front door more secure and providing somewhere to leave muddy boots, stand wet brollys and hang coats.
Porch extensions can be carried out in Bodmin and also in: Clerkenwater, Lane End, Nanstallon, St Lawrence, Wadebridge, Helland, Washaway, Lostwithiel, Carminnow Cross, Kirland, Fletchersbridge, Roche, Blisland, Boscarne, Dunmere, Tregullon, and in these postcodes PL31 1BL, PL31 1BH, PL31 1AF, PL31 1LA, PL31 1JG, PL31 1HD, PL31 1DT, PL30 5JU, PL31 1PU, PL31 1FQ. Local Bodmin porch installers will probably have the dialling code 01208 and the postcode PL31.
Overdoor/Porch Canopies Bodmin
If you don't want to build a fully enclosed porch, but still wish to cover the front entrance to your house in Bodmin, the solution would probably be a porch or overdoor canopy. With the installation of a lightweight overdoor porch canopy you will be able to both provide an eye-catching entrance that will improve the appearance of your home, and simultaneously shield your front door from the worst that the Bodmin weather can throw at it. Obtainable in a wide range of styles, shapes and materials, porch canopies can be made to complement the basic design features of just about any property in Bodmin. The porch canopy patterns that are most often installed are the flat roof canopy, the hipped door canopy, the A-frame canopy and the mono-pitch canopy.
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Near Bodmin
Also find: Clerkenwater porch extensions, Wadebridge porch extensions, Lostwithiel porch extensions, Fletchersbridge porch extensions, Blisland porch extensions, Dunmere porch extensions, Washaway porch extensions, Boscarne porch extensions, Tregullon porch extensions, Nanstallon porch extensions, St Lawrence porch extensions, Carminnow Cross porch extensions, Lane End porch extensions, Roche porch extensions, Kirland porch extensions, Helland porch builders and more.
Searching For a Porch Specialist On the Web

Just "Googling it" appears to be the way that most property owners in Bodmin hunt for all sorts of services in this day and age. As you are checking out this page at this point, you probably uncovered it by looking on Google, Ask, Bing or Yahoo. It's not always the case that the listings which are shown on the opening page of the favoured search engines are of use to you.
But, usually you'll enter "porch extensions Bodmin", "porch extension specialist in Bodmin", "Bodmin porch extensions" or "porch extensions near me", with the aim of of locating what you're looking to find. For your information, you will typically discover that the top and bottom four listings will be some type of PPC advertisements, while a large percentage of the remainder will likely be internet directories such as Yell, Yelp, 3 Best Rated or Thomson Local, or listings from the top trade portals like Quotatis, Rated People, Checkatrade, My Builder, Bidvine or TrustaTrader, which may or may not be helpful. Odd job men in Bodmin don't have substantial budgets to push their websites to the top of the positions, therefore you are liable to find these hiding further down the results maybe on the second or third pages.
Trademan vetting portals such as My Hammer or Rated People are still handy, and you will be able to take advantage of their valuable services to study reviews, obtain free estimates and check out client appraisals, given that there are porch specialists on there who don't even have a website of their own.
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Around Bodmin
Porch specialists were just recently working in the following Bodmin locations: Lidcutt Farm, Boskear Lane, St. Pirans Close, Remembrance House, Greenvalley Road, Grenville Close, Rock Lane, Dairy Cottage, Trewint Farm, Lucknow Road, Pendavey Road, Racecourse House, Old Callywith Road, Grass Valley Park, Lucas Close, Tower Court, Gladstone Road, Pengelly Bungalow, Royal Links, Tawnamoor, Crabtree Lane, Mill Street, College Green, Harmer Close, Fourways, Roseland Road, Barn Park, Canyke Meadows, Pinehurst Close, Scarletts Well Road, and in houses having these postcodes: PL31 1BL, PL31 1BH, PL31 1AF, PL31 1LA, PL31 1JG, PL31 1HD, PL31 1DT, PL30 5JU, PL31 1PU, PL31 1FQ.
More Cornwall porch builders: Camborne, Newquay, Redruth, St Austell, Truro, Penzance, Bodmin, Falmouth and Saltash.
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Porch specialists in PL31 area, telephone code 01208.