Self Build Help

[2complicated]

Can anyone recommend a good website or book that gives clear accurate instructions on how to build an extension? I have had a look at the building regs on the government website but these seem really complicated and hard to follow. How do these self build people do it?

[jake-the-peg]

Generally most self-builders employ builders and achitects themselves.

The term self-build generally means they are commissioning the build themselves rather than buying a previously built house.

Very few do the whole thing with their own hands.

Given your extension will have to meet building regulations and be inspected, you should probably get professional help if you're finding it hard to follow.

[buildersmate]

One of the better books to learn about Self Build is called Building your Own Home by Murray Armor and David Snell. Its published by Ebury Press. I used this book 5 years ago when I was learning (I have built my own house). However it won't tell you explicitly how to put an extension together - there are many different construction methods. Understanding enough about Building Regulations to put drawings together for Building Regs approval is, I'm afraid, not easy the first time you do it - and for many people they only want to self-build once. So the only practical alternative is to employ an architectural technician to produce your drawings for planning, and he/she will then annotate the planning drawings with extra information required for the building regs submission. In practice I did most of the Building Regs drawings myself, but there were areas like the structural stability of the roof and the thermal calculations that I couldn't tackle myself. It will probably cost you about �750 for the Planning Drawings and say another �1000 for the necessary Building Regs ones, including your professional making the applications and managing the process through Building Control. An architect will offer you the same service, at a higher price. The statutory fees for PP are about �250 and those for BC about �350 - you can't avoid these costs.

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