Problem finding architect for extension project
wrote:
Hello
We are planning to build a two storey extension to our newly purchased
small detached 1956 built house near the centre of Basingstoke.
The house will require some re-modelling inside. Several of the interior
walls are solid, but not necessarily load bearing. How the conventionally
appearing hipped roof is supported may be an issue in regard to moving
interior walls to enlarge a bedroom.
In spite of my years I have never done anything like this before, only
isolated d-i-y- projects.
However this question isnt about specifics.
It is easy enough to find architects advertising, and two have been
personally recommended, but the problem is the massive step in paying
between £600 to £1700 for the first set of drawings to planning
permission before we have the vaguest idea what an architect may come up
with, apart from them saying simply that the project is do-able.
Would it be worth looking around the area to see if any properties similar
to yours have already had work done
like you propose?
If you find any then risk being turned away but ask the householder if it
was done and how ,most people are usually friendly and in many cases like
to show what they have achieved.
It may even be worth looking if any with extensions are on sale or have
been sold in recent years and searching estate agent websites , now photos
of interiors appear on line and often stay somewhere on the WWW
after sale you may be able to take a peek at what others have done without
having to visit,
and then if you do engage an architect show them an example and say I
want something like this.
GH
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