New entranceway

kevsan

Hi,

I currently have an L shaped kitchen that was created by converting the garage and joining it to the original kitchen... all good.

We are thinking about blocking off a portion of the extension to create a separate utility room and putting in a false wall lined with units and an intenal door back in the rest of the kitchenm giving us a new room with washmachine / tumble dryer and new sink plus storage.

What would be good is to also use as a boot room, which would mean putting a new external door into the wall....

Would this require building regs and what kind of money should I be looking at.... would a typcial door/window installer be able to do it, or would a builder be required.. I am guessing I'll need some kind of lintel etc

Sorry lots of questions!

TIA

pingua

Well, I am no expert but whilst looking at our councils web site about making a new window, I think I read about if you are making a new entrance into your house that yes you would need permission. You would need lintel. We had a back door blocked and the 'builder' did it all himself - no window man.The builder stuck a window in for us. No idea on cost - hubbie did some work for him and he did some for us so no 'price' was paid as such.

kevsan

Thanks for that... I'll see what the council have to say!