ameijers wrote:
"Rachel" wrote in message
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Hi,

I'm thinking of blocking off my existing external back door (to extend
my kitchen) and having french doors fitted in place of the large dining
room window to use as the back door instead.

Are there any laws stopping me from blocking off an external door? If
not, is this an expensive job? I have absolutely no idea how to do this
and would have to pay a specialist to do both these jobs.

Your thoughts/ideas and general costing advice would be greatly
appreciated.

Nah, that is a common remodel on 1960s cookie cutters, to make the dining
nook feel more open. A lot of them didn't even have an outside door in the
kitchen, you had to go through garage and use THAT back door to get to back
porch- makes cookouts a pain.

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aem sends...

The wierdest and most awkward layout I ever saw was my BIL's in Canada.
Picture a 2 story house with the main living on the second floor.
Bottom was more of a daylight basement layout, spare bedroom, utility,
nice rec-room that was a garage at one time.

The only access to the back yard was either through the front door and
around the house (on the bottom floor) or go up to the second floor,
through the kitchen and down a flight of stairs.

It didn't take him long to punch a hole and put in a french door in the
rec room.

Harry K