Porch Building Coventry

To assist you with the planning and design of your porch, you will need to talk to an expert builder in Coventry. For yet more inspirational and imaginative ideas you should do a search for porches on the internet.

The materials to be used for the ceiling, the floor, the door, the roof, the walls and the windows should be considered before going ahead with your porch.

You should also think about electrics, furniture, decoration, storage and internal design.

Do Porches Require Planning Permission? When you are building a porch onto the front entrance of your home in Coventry, you should not need planning permission if: your residence is a house, and not a maisonette, flat or other kind of building, the external ground floor area of the construction is not more than three square metres, no section of the porch construction is more than 3m above ground level, no part of the construction is within 2m of any road or two metres from the boundary of the property on which it is being built.

Shoot down to your local planning office if you are unsure about any of this. Your chosen Coventry porch builder will be happy to help you with this process. To be safe rather than sorry, check!

Building Regulations Relating to Porch Construction: Most homeowners might not realise that building regulations approval is completely different to planning permission. If your project means that the exterior door remains in place, all current disability access is retained and the porch construction is less than 30m2 and is at ground level, you should not need building regulations approval. Building regulations approval will be required for electrical installations in porches and certain kinds of window.

What are the Benefits of a Porch? Adding a porch to your home in Coventry may have certain benefits, these would be: offering a place to park bicycles, enhancing the property's appeal to potential buyers when you need to put it on the market, decreasing heat loss through your front door, providing somewhere to leave muddy shoes, hang coats and stand damp umbrellas, extra storage space, giving character to a currently plain doorstep, increasing the value of your house and making your front door more secure.

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