All about house extension

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All about house extension

The house extension is one of the best solutions to get an extra living area. The extension of the house increases its value by amounts that exceed the investment that was made, which makes projects like this to be always profitable.

When you consider the extension of the house you have to take into consideration several details that each one matters  essentially. There are two distinct situations. The first is a project of the house that takes into account since the time they put stone for foundation, a further expansion of the house, the second one is the extension of an old house.

For the house extensionthere are some essential elements withoutwhich this project can not be realized. What matters firstly is the resistance structure of the existing house.

There are houses that can not be extended, as there are houses that should be consolidated before moving for extending. Consequently, the house extension always starts with a technical expertise to determine the resistance of the house and therefore if the house extension is possible.

The expertise establishes also how the extension of the house can be made. It may be about a height extension or a horizontal extension. If the extension is horizontal, the complications associated with the resistance structure are removed, but if you take into account a vertical extension, which was not already included in the original project of the house, it is necessary a correct evaluation of the foundation so that it can bear in good conditions an extra weight.

Theoretically, the house extension does not require an architecture project, although it is still necessary.

The project is useful because it will take into account the details of the structure, the division and the water installations and the heating ones and the electrical structure. It is important to say that the extension of the house can not be done without an approval of construction, whether it is a horizontal or a vertical expansion.

What is essential to extend the house

The foundation.For the masonry houses with a foundation, the expansion is done mostly vertical. Add a level or an attic and the foundation is one that can bring the biggest problems. We can not speak about the foundation if it has more than 50 centimeters. On the height a house can be extended only if the foundation supports the new weight, otherwise the foundation should be consolidated.

The existing zone division.Vertically extension of the house requires a repartitioning of the ground floor. This implies losses in the existing living space or due to the necessity of placing an access way to the level or through the repartitioning of the walls with the purpose of increasing the resistance of the house.

The consolidation. It is the essential step that you must make into the project for the house extension. Doubling the structure and the concrete slabs, reinforcing the external walls and the foundation but also recalibrating and reorganizing the access ways and the windows is essential for the house extension.

The experts warn that a well consolidated building requires the supervision and the advice of a specialist, because otherwise the consolidation not only achieves the purpose, but it can lead to damages of the house by twisting the walls or weakening the entire structure.

The materials taken into account for the extension of the house.

It basically is a subject in itself, but it is important to say that if the house extending is made by adding a wooden attic, for example, some problems are minimized because it is essential the weight of materials. So the plan that refers to the house extension is essential in this chapter.

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