theres a little more work to yours
new foundation at the new wall placement before the walls built up would be best
then move the whole window forward making a longer room / kitchen area
the pillar might be an issue depends if they have used a concrete support pillar foundation if they have you need to tie into it
Valid point about brick matching but I wasn't considering a half wall, something much less actually. And then clad / door / glaze the rest.A floating floor of 50mm kingspan would probably work with, an 18mm floorabove.
Personally speaking, using brick for a half-wall, will look naff unless you can match the bricks, or steal some from the inside wall of the porch to match then plaster the inside. Id also look to remove existing front door and threshold once its water tight or the non level floor will be irritating, and then replace with an internal door with a glass flag at the side.
Another way….lift flags, do upvc with cladding upto window height, then build timber frame inside and insulate. Lay new floor with insulation and dpm.
Yes, it looks quite standard and it's no Grand Designs for sure. But it's a one-off design in this village anyway. You are right about having a look around though - I'm sure I can find homes with a similar corner / brick pillar design that have been converted.Just looking at the design - what you suggest is a very obvious thing to do. Also it does look like a standard mass produced architecture.
My first step would be to find out what everybody else with the same building has done and pick a winner. Then you don't need to reinvent the wheel and you can find out what even the winners might have done differently given their experience.
its an advantage having it that wayThere's a cubic metre concrete block below my brick pillar then a 100x100 box up the centre from what I can make out from the old planning / building drawings.
I think you are right about that. The alternative would I suppose be to remove the pillar and build two load-bearing walls. But at that point it goes beyond my means and is no longer a simple DIY job.You will I'd say need to membrane and insulate whatever becomes "inside" faces on that pillar.
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Yes, it looks quite standard and it's no Grand Designs for sure. But it's a one-off design in this village anyway. You are right about having a look around though - I'm sure I can find homes with a similar corner / brick pillar design that have been converted.
So approximately 1.5m x 3m
Extending it is not something I've considered but I suppose that's an option if I decided to get a builder to do the work rather than do it myself. I have to be realistic about what I can do alone, bearing in mind limited building experience and lack of hours in the day.I wasn't intending to criticise the merit of the design, just that it looks very much like an "off the shelf" architecture which I assume you could find multiple examples of. Didn't realise you were in a village, that makes it a bit more tricky.
Around here (Ealing) there are pretty much hundreds of similar/identical builds. Even the architrave/mouldings would have been run off the same machine, if not the same actual bit!
Back on topic though, if you're going to so much effort, is it worth exploring the possibility of extending that "room"? Literally doubling the size of it would hardly affect the overall cost...
Cant is just a state of mind…..not beyond a willing DIY person, its just the pros do it far quicker. Ive built two porches from scratch. The first one on my own. Took me blooming ages. Probably 6 weeks, I'm really slow. Second one, there were 3 of us. Time is the killer for DIY projects especially if you need to fit in a job around them!I think you are right about that. The alternative would I suppose be to remove the pillar and build two load-bearing walls. But at that point it goes beyond my means and is no longer a simple DIY job.
It's enough for boots, tumble dryer, etc. I don't think the wife would like to see another lathe. I only just got rid of a small Drummond from the bedroom.That's not a great deal of width, especially after you enclose it including fitting a door. By the time you put in [say] a small table and a couple of chairs [let alone a lathe ] I think you'll be squeezing past them to get to the existing front door?
Yes, I agree there is plenty of potential for cold bridges and the migration of damp, both via the pillar and from the external walls of the house. The only way I see that not happening for certain is to cut vertical slots into the existing brickwork skins, and maybe remove and replace that pillar.Depending on use, you might have issues with cold bridges, well, everywhere. But including that pillar.
If it's just an unheated, well ventilated porch, probably not a big issue. But if you fancy it becoming part of the kitchen, it might be problematic.
Yep, but to be honest I reckon I could pull off a few roof tiles in short order and enter the loft in most bungalows with little difficulty.I did just what you don't want to do - small wall (as I needed to bring the floor height up), then simply fitted uPVC panels - solid panels to mid-height, double glazed above, opening door and a half to the front.
thickness of the pillars would allow you to add internal insulation if needed.
I discovered why doing it that while all doors and windows to the rest of the house had super duper insurance approved locks . . .the ceiling to the previously open to world porch was simply plastered plasterboard, open to the rest of the loft inside
It's not now!