Porch Building Sandown

You'll need an experienced builder in Sandown to assist you with the design and planning or your porch. Although you should also search online, where you will find an abundance of creative and inspirational ideas for porches.

If you decide to go with a porch, one of the first details you'll want to consider is what materials you're going to be using for the windows, the floor, the roof, the walls, the ceiling and the door.

At this point you might also think about storage possibilities, furniture, electrical sockets, internal design and decoration.

Is Planning Permission Needed for a Porch? You most likely won't need planning permission to build a porch on the front entrance to your property in Sandown if: no element of the porch is within two metres of any road or two metres from the boundary of the property on which it is being built, no part of the porch is over three metres above ground level, your residence is a house, not a flat, maisonette or other type of building, the construction doesn't exceed a ground area of 3m2.

Shoot down to your local planning office if you're unclear about any of this. Your preferred Sandown porch builder should be happy to liase with the planning office. To be certain, always check!

Building Regulations Relating to Porch Construction: Whether planning permission is required or not, you may still need building regulations approval. You shouldn't need building regulations approval if the following are true: the porch is under 30 square metres and on ground level, the present external door is not removed and all current disability access is maintained. Electrical installations and certain kinds of window do need approval.

Porches - The Benefits: The key benefits of a porch extension are: giving extra character to a previously plain doorstep, offering somewhere to park a bicycle, more security, minimizing heat loss through your front door, extra storage space, boosting the overall value of your property, enhancing the property's appeal to potential buyers should you need to sell it and providing somewhere to leave muddy shoes, hang coats and stand wet brollys.

Sandown porch building specialists will likely help with insurance quotations, porch entrances, lean-to porches, inexpensive porches, porch heating, porch extensions, porch planning permission advice, brick porches, cheap porch building, porch design and installation, porch lighting, porch building regulations assistance, porch planning advice, front porches, porch sockets, porch awnings, porch windows and doors, porch restoration, aluminium porches, porch repairs, blockwork porches and other porch related services in Sandown, Isle of Wight.

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