Converting a Conservatory into a Kitchen

Doozergirl

gazfocus wrote: »

Please read posts 10 and 11.

We might be reading differently, but phoebe left the original door in place?

gazfocus

Doozergirl wrote: »

We might be reading differently, but phoebe left the original door in place?

Where does it say that?

Doozergirl

gazfocus wrote: »

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.

My intention is not to talk down to you. I as a building professional I do know what I'm talking about and as much as you can ask for advice it, I can offer it, regardless of whether you agree. I have asked some questions that might be able to lead you in a more creative direction that gets you better value for money. This is a website where people ask for and offer advice on moneysaving. Your post at the moment appears to deviate from that.

£15k could well get you close to conforming with a sensible kitchen budget if the building inspector will allow energy saving measures elsewhere but it really is a spectacular waste of money if the intention is genuinely to demolish it. £15k would take you towards the bare shell of the single storey part of extension which could be added to as you save.

Or, if you think it will take you five years to save enough for the extension doing this now, then it might only take you three years to save for the whole extension if you waited?

Or, if you find a place to extend elsewhere at a later date once you've saved again, you can carry out this idea and produce something like the photograph now. Why would anyone create a kitchen like that and demolish it?

There are lots of options available to you, not just one. I think an architect and a definite long term vision on the extensions might help get value for money.

Mark_Mark

gazfocus wrote: »

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.

You can't afford an extension but you can afford to waste £15k?

Priceless.

phoebe1989seb

Doozergirl wrote: »

Building regulations!

You are going to haemorrhage heat out from the entire house through the roof. If it's worth being freezing cold and having extortionate gas bills for a kitchen island...

The opening will need building control approval. An open space to a conservatory is not acceptable. It needs an external quality door in it.

This. Whilst we utilised our conservatory as an *extension to the adjoining kitchen* with island etc, we didn't tamper with the doorway between the two. This was an original single width 1930s cottage style door fitted when the house was reconstructed after being relocated in 1938.

The people we sold to in 2011 talked about doing the same as the OP is suggesting (replacing the glass roof with a proper tiled one) and also opening up the space by fitting French doors or even having no doors at all, but when we were in the area last week it appears they have yet to start work......so looks like they've reconsidered.

andrewf75

Yep. Agree with the sensible advice above. By all means use the conservatory as an extension to the kitchen area for example a dining table, but keep a proper door and don't put any of the actual kitchen out there.

Bluebell1000

gazfocus wrote: »

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

Yes ours is a bit smaller, about 14m2 downstairs and 11m2 upstairs.