Open Plan Advice Please

snowcat75

Doozergirl wrote: »

It won't add any value to the house. Value is added by creating square footage.

A conservatory is an outbuilding, not an extension. It needs full building regulations as an extension correctly built with decent footings and insulation values, so it would be expensive to rebuild properly assuming that the conservatory is built, as most are, inferior to extensions. They are cheaper to build because they don't meet regulations - they don't need to because they are separate from the house.

It's imperative that structural engineer's calculations and Building Control Approval are obtained for the knock throughs you intend to create. If each wall is structural then there may be, I suspect, some impossibilities in what you have done. With your budget, piers need to be kept to support the steels that replace the walls. To describe it perhaps a bit better, the will be stub left behind of each wall - that means you cannot put windows in every space where there was once a wall perpendicular to the back wall because you compromise the whole structure.

You can do something with your budget and probably most of your second option but with a rethink on your window locations; gravity is a definite thing.

Not necessarily Its quite possible to spread a steel on a steel to remove the piers. Iv doubled UBs over windows/doors bi folds and sat columns over them to hold entire floors and roofs up. all to calc and to EN1090.


All depends on budget but most of the OPs scheme would be eaten in labour not material....