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Enhance Your Home: Front Porch Extension! 🏡✨

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Enhance Your Home: Front Porch Extension! 🏡✨

Add charm, security, and practicality to your home with a welcoming front porch extension!

Why Build? The Benefits!

  • Added Security: Creates an additional barrier between your home and the outside, often with a secure outer door.
  • Additional Space: Provides a handy area for coats, shoes, buggies, and umbrellas, keeping your hallway clear.
  • Improved Energy Efficiency: Acts as an airlock, reducing heat loss and draughts from your main front door.
  • Enhanced Kerb Appeal: Significantly improves the aesthetic look and welcoming feel of your home's entrance.
  • Brighter Entrance: Often incorporates glazing, bringing more natural light into your hallway.
  • Added Value: Can make your property more desirable and quicker to sell.

What Can You Create? Ideas for Your New Space!

  • Boot Room/Cloakroom: A dedicated area for outdoor gear.
  • Secure Entryway: An extra layer of protection for your home.
  • Welcoming Foyer: Create a grander and more inviting entrance.
  • Shelter from Elements: A place to stand out of the rain while finding keys.
  • Aesthetic Feature: Enhance the architectural style of your property.

Key Facts & Figures (UK Averages)

💰 Estimated Cost

  • £3,000 - £4,000 (average cost for installation).
  • uPVC Porch materials: £300 - £600 per m².
  • Timber Porch materials: £500 - £900 per m².
  • Brick Porch materials: £1,500 - £2,000 (total).
  • Costs vary by type, materials, and complexity.

📈 Value Added

  • Contributes to kerb appeal and practicality, making the property more desirable.
  • Can help a property sell quicker compared to similar homes without a porch.

📏 Average Added Space

  • Typically around 3 square metres for an average porch.
  • Provides a small but highly functional additional space at the front of your home.

🗓️ Planning Permission

  • Often Not Needed: Planning permission is usually not required if the total floor area does not exceed 3 square metres, the height does not exceed 3 metres, and it's not within 2m of a public footpath/road/boundary.
  • Building Regulations: Required to ensure structural integrity and compliance.
  • Overall Project Timeline (Build Phase): Typically 1-2 weeks for completion once work begins.

Ready to add charm, security, and convenience to your home? Consult with local builders and porch specialists to bring your vision to life!

Visualise Your Dream Annex!

Front entrance of a red-brick house with a dark grey door and decorative columns.

External View

Modern hallway with a blue front door, seating area, and large windows letting in natural light.

Internal View

UK Front Porch Extension Guide! 🏡✨

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