Step by Step Guide to your Home Renovation Project

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How to run the smooth project: Step-by-step guide to your home renovation from design, planning and style, to budget andtimeline - how to get it right and avoid the common pitfalls.

 
 

Seven Steps to Success (Chapters):

  1. Creating a Brief

  2. Undertaking a Feasibility Report

  3. Your Project Checklist

  4. Planning Overview

  5. Identifying your style

  6. Controlling your budget

  7. Managing your timeline

1. Creating a Brief

Outline Your Project’s:

 

DESIGN   |   SCOPE   |   BUDGET   |   TIMELINE

 
 
 
 

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What is the main purpose of your project?

  1. What additional space do you need?

  2. Improve existing flow and natural light to the property?

  3. Increase storage within your home?

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2. Undertaking a Feasibility Report

Having identified your requirements during Step 1, it would be beneficial to discuss your project with a renovation professional within your home. 

 

Design

Craft your dream home with our exceptional design expertise

Build Cost

Transparent project cost assessment from the beginning

Value

Unlocking the potential for increased value

Timeline

Outling the project timeline and key project stages

 

3. Your Project Checklist

Your Checklist should include the following:

 

    • Full Planning Permission

    • Lawful Development Certificate

    • Listed Building Consent

    • Flood Risk Assessment

    • Ecology Surveys (Including Bat)

    • Arborist Report (TPO’s)

    • Conditions, CODE, Lifetime homes

    • Proposed Sketch Scheme

    • Specialist Foundations

    • Retaining Wall

    • Full set of Calculations

    • Reviewed by building control

    • Support while on site

    • Integrated into your design ideas

    • Will the project affect an existing party wall (between you and your neighbour)

    • Does the work include a new party wall to be erected between you and your neighbour?

    • Is the proposed project within 3m of your neighbouring properties?

    • Building Notice vs. Plan Check

    • Full Plan Submission

    • Ensure your project complies 

    • Key Stage Visit 

    • Building Control Reports

    • Third independent party

    • Completion Certificates

    • Do you have a manhole/ public sewer which you will be building within 3m of?

    • Does the project include the relocation of a gas or electric meter?

    • Do any telephone lines, post boxes, street signs, etc. need to be relocated to allow for the design?

    • Will you be living on site and managing the project day to day?

    • Do you require external assistance?

    • Have you had experience of a renovation project before?

    • Contract management

    • Timeline management

 

4.    Planning Overview

Full Planning vs Permitted Development

Permitted Development

➤ Permitted Development is a national law

➤ Neighbours are not consulted

➤ The Planning Department can only check that the proposed scheme meets the regulations

Homeowner Full Planning Application

➤ Local Authority local planning guidelines

➤ Neighbours are consulted

➤ The Planning Department have an option to comment/ affect the proposed scheme

 

“By utilising the Permitted Development Rights already attached to your home you can bypass the conventional planning process. There are enormous benefits to this route such as bigger lofts and extensions, more extensive glazing and large out buildings, to name but a few.”

 

Full Planning vs Permitted Development

Example of the volume added to a loft conversion on a terrace house

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Permitted Development: Loft Conversion

Volume Allowance for a Loft Conversion  40m3 for a Terraced House and 50m3 for Semi-detached and Detached House

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Permitted Development: Extended Rules beyond 2019 (Prior Notification)

  • 6m back for single storey rear extension for Terraced and Semi detached houses

  • 8m back for single storey rear extensions for Detached houses

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A prior notification will notify your adjoining neighbours of the proposed works and allow neighbours 21 days in which to comment on the proposed extension. If a neighbouring resident objects to the proposed extension, we are required to consider the impact on any adjoining premises.

 
 

5. Identifying your Style

To make your property ‘Your Home’

Amongst all of the complicated checklist requirements, the most important thing to remember is why you are undertaking the renovation project...

 
 
 
 
 
 

6. Controlling your Budget

There are elements you can control on your budget - the aim is to focus on these.

 


    • Overheads

    • Scaffolding

    • Parking Permits

    • Portaloos

    • Accommodation

    • Skip Hire

    • Floors

    • Wall (Type)

    • Roof Construction

    • Beams

    • Lintels

    • Insulation

    • Boiler

    • Megaflow

    • Underfloor Heating

    • Electric consumer unit

    • Gas meter

    • Gutters

    • Drains

    • Windows

    • Doors

    • Roof Lights

    • Wall Claddings

    • Roof Claddings

    • Kitchens

    • Sanitary Ware

    • Flooring

    • Wall Finish

    • Lighting

    • Decking

    • Fencing

    • Planting

    • Features

    • Seating

 
 

These are the key areas where you can control your budget from windows and doors to kitchens and bathrooms. 

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7. Managing your Timeline

There are some key factors to take into account with timeline management:

 

Planning Application | Party Wall | Engineering | Tender | Building Control

 
 
 
 

If you have any question please contact us below

 
 
 
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James Hood