Porch Building Epsom

The best person to talk to about the design and planning or a porch is a professional builder in Epsom. For even more inspirational and creative ideas you should do a search for porches online.

If you choose to bite the bullet and build a porch, you will first need to consider your preferred materials for the floor, the door, the walls, the ceiling, the roof and the windows.

More factors to think about include: internal design, furniture, electric sockets, storage and decoration.

Do I Require Planning Permission to Build a Porch? When building a porch in Epsom, you should not need planning permission if no component of the porch construction is within two metres of any road or 2 metres from the boundary of the property, your residence is a house, and not a maisonette, flat or other form of building, the porch construction doesn't exceed a ground area of 3 square metres, no element of the porch construction is more than 3 metres above ground level.

Your local planning office is the place to head for if you are in any way unsure about the need for planning permission. Your preferred Epsom porch builder should be willing to liase with the planning office. Be sure, and check!

Building Regulations Relating to Porch Construction: You should take note that planning permission is different to building regulations approval. You shouldn't need building regulations approval if the following are true: the present external door is not removed, any disability access is preserved and the porch area is less than 30 square metres and at ground level. Certain types of window and all electrical installations in porches will be needing building regulations approval.

Benefits: There are a surprising number of benefits that having a porch extension brings, including: providing somewhere to leave muddy boots, hang coats and stand damp umbrellas, reducing heat loss through your front door, making your doorway more secure, offering a place to park bicycles, give you a bit of extra storage space, giving more character to a previously plain doorstep, boosting the value of the house and enhancing the appeal of the property to potential buyers if you ever need to sell it.

For the current building regulations on porch building take a look here: Porches.

Epsom porch building specialists will likely help you with house porches, porch columns, porch building regulations assistance, UPVC porches, porch heating, aluminium porches, blockwork porches, porch planning permission advice, porches and conservatories, insurance quotations, porch tiling, front porches, porch lights, porch building quotes, porch roofing, porch repairs, electrics, porch design and installation, oak porches, porch materials and supplies, porch renovating and other porch related services in Epsom, Surrey.

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