Newbury Porch Extensions (RG14): Adding a porch extension to your home in Newbury is one smart way of improving it without breaking the bank. Building a porch is one of the most economical and easiest extension projects that you can do. Apart from smartening up the entrance to your house, a porch has the added benefit of saving you heat loss.
If you need some assistance with the planning and design of your proposed porch, an expert builder in Newbury should be able to help. You'll also get plenty of inspirational and innovative ideas for porches on the internet.
If you decide to bite the bullet and build a porch, you will first need to consider your preferred materials for the floor, the windows, the ceiling, the door, the walls and the roof.
More things to think about include: decoration, storage, internal design, the provision of electricity and furniture.
Do I Need Planning Permission to Build a Porch? When building a porch in Newbury, you should not require planning permission if no portion of the porch is over 3m above ground level, your property is a house, not a maisonette, flat or other kind of building, the exterior floor area of the construction isn't more than 3m2, no portion of the porch is within 2 metres from the boundary of the property or within two metres of any road.
If you're unsure, your local planning office is the place to go for a chat about your porch construction. The estimate from your chosen Newbury porch builder will most likely include this liason with the planning office. To be certain, always check!
Building Regulations Relating to Porch Building: The layman may not appreciate that building regulations approval is very different to planning permission. You won't need building regulations approval if all current disability access is maintained, the exterior door is not taken out and the porch is lower than 30 square metres and is at ground level. You will need to get building regulations approval for all electrical installations and certain windows in porches.
What are the Benefits of a Porch? You may be wondering what benefits can be gained by adding a porch, these include: an extra deterrent to burglars, increasing the value of your house, additional storage space, giving extra character to an otherwise plain doorstep, providing somewhere to hang coats, stand wet brollys and leave muddy boots, cutting down heat loss through your front door, enhancing the property's appeal to potential buyers when you need to put it on the market and offering somewhere to park bicycles.
Porch extensions can be undertaken in Newbury and also in nearby places like: Shaw, Enborne, Woolton Hill, Ashmore Green, Marsh Benham, Inkpen, Westbrook, Donnington, Stockcross, Bucklebury, Cold Ash, Speen, Woodspeen, Hunts Green, Hoe Benham, Curridge, Upper Bucklebury, Adbury, Bagnor, Crockham Heath, Thatcham, Newtown Common, Wash Water, Newtown, Chieveley, Wash Common, Halfway, Winterbourne, Benham Hill, Highclere, Snelsmore Common, Boxford, Greenham, and in these postcodes RG14 1XL, RG14 1LF, RG14 1DY, RG14 1LE, RG14 1PR, RG14 1JB, RG14 1EF, RG14 1HN, RG14 1TE, RG14 1HH. Local Newbury porch installers will most likely have the dialling code 01635 and the postcode RG14.
The current porch regulations are available to view here: Porches.
Overdoor/Porch Canopies Newbury
A porch or overdoor canopy is the perfect solution for you if you are planning to cover the main entrance to your house in Newbury, but do not want to install a fully enclosed porch. With the installation of a lightweight overdoor porch canopy you can both provide an elegant entrance that will enhance the look of your home, and at the same time protect your doorway from the worst that the Newbury weather can throw at it. Offered in a wide variety of shapes and styles, porch canopies can be made to match the design features of just about any house in Newbury. The overdoor canopy styles that are most frequently installed are the hipped canopy, the single-pitch canopy, the flat roof canopy and the A-frame canopy.
Near Newbury
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Around Newbury
People living in the following Newbury locations recently needed a porch installer: De Montfort Road, Shaw Farm Lane, The Granary, Belvedere Drive, St Davids Road, Sidestrand Road, Coxeter Road, Cedar Mount, Sutton Road, The Halters, Culver Road, Station Road, Clifton Road, Bussock Mayne Bungalows, Tower Hill Court, Thorneley Road, Tydehams, Bell Holt, Bruan Road, Denmark Road, Abingdon Road, Barn Crescent, Coster Close, Cheap Street, Brummell Road, Chapel Road, Cedar Drive, Skippons Close, and also in these nearby postcodes RG14 1XL, RG14 1LF, RG14 1DY, RG14 1LE, RG14 1PR, RG14 1JB, RG14 1EF, RG14 1HN, RG14 1TE, RG14 1HH.
More Berkshire porch builders: Newbury, Ascot, Woodley, Crowthorne, Bracknell, Tilehurst, Windsor, Maidenhead, Sunninghill, Winkfield, Reading, Wokingham, Sandhurst, Slough, Finchampstead, Twyford and Thatcham.
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To get local Newbury information look here
Porch specialists in RG14 area, phone code 01635.