Converting a Conservatory into a Kitchen

gazfocus

Bluebell1000 wrote: »

We're having our conservatory replaced with a 2 storey extension inc kitchen, and the builder quotes are around £30k for the whole build. Admittedly it's a lot cheaper than we were expecting, but we just happened to find a builder who has an available slot at the exact time we wanted the work done, so he's very keen! Depends on where you are too though!

Also depends on the size I guess. We want something approx 7m x 4m (current conservatory is 7m x 3m).

gazfocus

Doozergirl wrote: »

Whether it is common has nothing to do with being done properly. You stated early on that you were not concerned with conforming to building regulations.

A conservatory is an outbuilding. No part of a conservatory needs to conform to code - foundations, roof, windows, insulative properties of the floor slab, nothing. When you open up a house to a conservatory that has no controls applied without applying for building control approval, you are not doing things correctly, neither is the builder doing it who has no concern for abiding by law or, subsequently, maintaining a professional reputation. Not a good thing for customers and a terrible thing for building professionals.

I fully appreciate what you're saying and I appreciate that you're trying to make me think of the implications, but there are many conservatories that do conform to building regs, especially with the new tiled roofs and such. However, as I've said, anything we do with the conservatory will be purely a temporary measure for the next 5-10 years while we save up for a proper extension.

Mark_Mark

gazfocus wrote: »

I fully appreciate what you're saying and I appreciate that you're trying to make me think of the implications, but there are many conservatories that do conform to building regs, especially with the new tiled roofs and such. However, as I've said, anything we do with the conservatory will be purely a temporary measure for the next 5-10 years while we save up for a proper extension.

But your conservatory doesn't have building regs and by opening it up means you will now need them. What else will the building inspector want to see.

You are willing to spend in excess of £5000 for something possibly illegal and you don't really want while trying to save up. Not very money saving is it?

Mojisola

It won't look like this, will it?
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28816896.html - Cash buyers only - presumably no mortgage provider will touch it.

Mark_Mark

Mojisola wrote: »

It won't look like this, will it?
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28816896.html - Cash buyers only - presumably no mortgage provider will touch it.

Notice the cash only sale.

Is that because it has no kitchen therefore no one will lend on it?

gazfocus

Mojisola wrote: »

It won't look like this, will it?
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-28816896.html - Cash buyers only - presumably no mortgage provider will touch it.

Mark_Mark wrote: »

Notice the cash only sale.

Is that because it has no kitchen therefore no one will lend on it?

No, it'd look something like this but with the island a bit more towards the conservatory

Doozergirl

gazfocus wrote: »

I fully appreciate what you're saying and I appreciate that you're trying to make me think of the implications, but there are many conservatories that do conform to building regs, especially with the new tiled roofs and such. However, as I've said, anything we do with the conservatory will be purely a temporary measure for the next 5-10 years while we save up for a proper extension.

We're going round in circles now.

A conservatory does not conform to building regulations. A conservatory that conforms to building regulations is classified as an extension.

Depending on how much you spend, you're either wasting money by completely bodging it, wasting a significant sum creating something of quality that can't cope with another storey and is going to be demolished or spending out correctly to create the basis, or indeed the finished product of super new extension.

The difference in price between starting the new extension and making this one genuinely habitable may not be that great.

Are there other options for the second storey? A loft conversion? A double storey elsewhere? Meaning you create something good now and don't lose it.

What sort of budget do you have now?

gazfocus

Doozergirl wrote: »

We're going round in circles now.

A conservatory does not conform to building regulations. A conservatory that conforms to building regulations is classified as an extension.

Depending on how much you spend, you're either wasting money by completely bodging it, wasting a significant sum creating something of quality that can't cope with another storey and is going to be demolished or spending out correctly to create the basis, or indeed the finished product of super new extension.

The difference in price between starting the new extension and making this one genuinely habitable may not be that great.

Are there other options for the second storey? A loft conversion? A double storey elsewhere? Meaning you create something good now and don't lose it.

What sort of budget do you have now?

Please don't talk down to me. I'm here for advice which is the purpose of this forum. Just because you don't agree with the way something is done, does not mean it will be bodged.

Our current budget is about £15k but that needs to pay for the kitchen as well.

andrewf75

gazfocus wrote: »

No, it'd look something like this but with the island a bit more towards the conservatory

But that isn't a conservatory.

gazfocus

andrewf75 wrote: »

But that isn't a conservatory.

Please read posts 10 and 11.