The main deficiency of my 1930’s house was the small size of the Kitchen. Tagged onto to the back wall of the kitchen stood an original ground floor W.C. and extending off this, an ugly coal shed, the brickwork of which didn’t match that of the house. I decided the remedy for these two issues would be to replace these almost disused appendages with a flat roofed kitchen extension.
My step father had recently completed building a home extension so I thought I’d make a start building it myself and see how far I could get.
The information needed for designing a home extension is included in the UK building regulations which are available free of charge from a government web site. I bought a couple of building texts to provide further guidance; one text I chose is that used as a core text by many UK building trade courses;
it’s referred to as “the Chudley”.
For a couple of weeks my evenings were spent sat at the PC with my building “regs” and other reference material. Using some cheap CAD software I produced plans; these were duly submitted to the local authority and granted approval.