Plymouth Porch Extensions (PL1): One splendid way to improve the appearance of your property in Plymouth without spending a fortune is to put up a porch extension. Of all the possible extension projects, building a porch is one of the simplest and most cost-effective. A porch can be both functional and attractive in that it improves the overall look of your home, saves heat and provides extra storage.
You'll need a qualified builder in Plymouth to assist you with the design and planning or your porch. You will also get lots of inspirational and creative ideas for porches on the internet.

If you decide to go with building a porch, one of the first details you will want to consider is what materials you're going to be using for the walls, the roof, the windows, the floor, the door and the ceiling.
You should also think about decoration, internal design, furniture, power sockets and storage possibilities.
Planning Permission - Is it Required for Building a Porch? When you are building a porch onto the front entrance of your property in Plymouth, you shouldn't need planning permission if: the porch construction doesn't exceed a ground area of 3 square metres, no element of the construction 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 more than 3m above ground level, your property is a house, not a flat, maisonette or other kind of building.
If you're unsure about whether you need planning permission, head down to your local planning office. Your chosen Plymouth porch builder should be willing to liase with the planning office. It is always best to check.

Building Regulations Relating to Porch Building: Whether or not planning permission is required, you might still need building regulations approval. Where porches are involved you WILL need to get building regulations approval unless the external door is not taken out, all current disabled access is maintained and the porch is under 30m2 and is at ground level. You will need to get approval for all electrical installations and certain types of window in porches.
The Benefits of a Porch Extension: There are a surprising number of benefits that having a porch brings, including: offering a place to park bicycles, preventing heat loss through your front door, raising the overall value of your house, providing somewhere to stand wet brollys, hang coats and leave muddy shoes, more security, giving more character to a previously plain doorway, additional storage space and enhancing the property's appeal to potential buyers in the event you need to sell.
For the present regulations on the construction of porches look here: Porches.
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Browsing on the Internet

In this day and age most folks in Plymouth who are looking for tradesmen and services of any kind are likely to "Google it", or in other words search for them online. The chances are that you're checking out this webpage as we speak after you stumbled upon it by using Bing, Yahoo, Google or Ask and it sprang up on the first page. Initially it might seem that the listings displayed on the first page are precisely what you were looking for, however that is not always the case.
Most folks, when searching for porch extension specialists in Plymouth will type in "porch extensions Plymouth", "porch extensions near me", "porch extension specialist in Plymouth" or "Plymouth porch extensions" into a search engine and analyze the results. However, you'll quickly come to discover that many of the 1st page of listings on the various search engines will either be entries from large trade portals such as Quotatis, Checkatrade, Rated People, My Builder, Bidvine or TrustaTrader, web directories like Yelp, ThreeBestRated, Yell or Foursquare, or "paid for" adverts that the search engine has for profit positioned there. The individual websites of porch specialists in Plymouth (when they've got one), is likely to be hidden on page 2 or 3 of the search engine listings. So you're going to have to navigate further.
When possible seek to use a builder who is a member of the Federation of Master Builders (FMB).
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Porch specialists in PL1 area, (dialling code 01752).