5 Tips before you start extending the house

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5 Tips before you start extending the house

Any project requires preliminary planning, planning that is not necessarily for the used materials, but the advantages and the disadvantages that such an investment would bring to you.

1. First of all, think very carefully if an extension adds value to the house or not, especially if you think to sell it in a distant future or why not, a closer one. Make sure that in the next months you will be dedicated to this project and do not let other events affect your work because it would mean delaying the construction or its extension on a longer period. And if your family members are sensitive to noise and trouble, you might take into consideration moving them to your parents, friends or neighbors.
2. Plan your budget carefully! Be careful to cut your coat according to your cloth ! This is the motto after which you must guide yourself and take into account the unexpected expenses that may arise during the project.
3. The extension must be a continuation of the house to the outside; it must seem as if it was there from the beginning. Therefore, take into consideration the design. Use the same decorating style and choose the same type of material (as long as it is possible). Possibly you can call the same architect or designer who has helped you to build and decorate the initial house.
4. Also excluding the architect and the designer, you should have a conversation also with the builder. Ask more details about the building company (you can search on the forums) or take a look at the portfolio to know who you are dealing with. In this way you will make an opinion about how your extension of the house will look.
5. Last but not least, make sure you get all the approvals that you need in such a situation, both legal approvals from the municipality, and also the “blessing” from the neighbors, especially, if your house extension would uncomfortable them in any way.

The advantage of house comparing with the apartment is that you can always repartition the construction and you can add an extra living space, along with the increasing of the family. In the case of the apartments all we can do is to sell and to buy a larger property that meets new requirements for space, at the house the problem of the living space can be solved relatively easily with a few documents and a well-calculated budget.

The house can be extended on the ground, if the town-planning plan of the area corresponds to the new project. The architect who will handle the project is able to tell which are the limitations related to the extension of the building. The new house will have to respect the withdrawals imposed in the urbanism certificate and also the quota of the land occupation. If you have space for expansion on the side, the expansion project will be more than easily led out by a construction and house design company. The situation can be complicated if there would need extending on the vertically, respectively adding a new floor or an attic to the house.

Firstly, the resistance structure of the house should bear another floor,otherwise it is necessary to consolidate the foundation.

Secondly, if we are talking about a house with classical roof, it should be completely removed and it will be constructed above, on the existing structure. This means that the lower floor will be completely unworkable during the work and it is possible to find it impossible to live in house until the completion of the project.

You should make sure that the furniture and the furnishings in the house are protected, because a new floor involves major works. The easiest to bunk are the houses with a flat roof, on which can be built without any problems, as long as the new building is based on a project and as long as the resistance structure allows it.

On this type of architecture, on the cube form, you can make all kinds of games with the available space, if you do not need to extend over the entire surface. Pay attention about how you think it will scale to the living space on the floor below.

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