Builder in Welling
Builder in Welling
Extensions, loft conversions, garage conversions and whole house renovations across Welling. Dense interwar streets where the plot decides the job more often than the budget does.
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DA16
The tightest
streets we work
Welling is the most closely built town we work in. DA16 runs from East Wickham across to Falconwood and up towards Danson, and it is mostly interwar terraces and semis on modest plots.
The houses are sound. Solid brickwork, decent roofs, and a plan that stopped making sense fifty years ago. A front room nobody sits in, a back room used for everything, and a kitchen with a door at each end so it is really a corridor with a cooker in it.
The density does not stop work happening, it changes which work is worth doing. A deep rear extension on a short Welling garden is usually the wrong answer. A side return with the ground floor reworked behind it is usually the right one.
Applications go to Bexley Council. On a terrace the permitted development limits are tighter and the boundary distance is what usually catches it, so plenty of what looks straightforward here needs a full application.
What we build
Six kinds of work
in Welling
Each of these has a page of its own with figures, timescales and what actually happens on site.
House extensions
Side returns and modest rear extensions. Three to four metres is the sensible limit on most DA16 plots, and beyond that you are trading garden for floor at a rate people regret.
Loft conversions
Rear dormers, mostly. On these plots the loft is the one direction left that costs nothing outside, and the interwar roofs here convert without the trusses having to come out.
Garage conversions
Not every DA16 house has one, because these streets were built before a car per household was assumed. Where there is a garage it is usually narrow and it makes an excellent utility or office.
Chalet conversions
Less common in Welling than in Bexley or Sidcup, but where a chalet style house exists the full conversion changes it more than anything else available.
Whole house renovations
On a plot with nowhere to go, reworking the inside is the whole job. Layout, services, kitchen, bathrooms and finishes, done once and done properly.
Kitchens, bathrooms and structural work
The original side wall is load bearing, so it does not come out without a steel and calculations. That opening is what makes a side return read as one room instead of two.
Recent work
Completed Projects
What it costs
Straight answers
on price
- £50,000 to £140,000House extensions, 10 weeks to 8 months
- £60,000 to £85,000Loft conversions, 8 to 12 weeks
- £15,000 to £33,000Garage conversions, 3 to 7 weeks
Every figure on this site with what moves it. On a DA16 plot the comparison worth making is between a side return, a loft and a garage rather than between two sizes of extension. No deposit is taken on any of it, the survey is free and the quote is itemised. More on costs
Choosing between them
Which option suits
a DA16 house
Four of these are worth pricing on almost any house here. Which one wins depends on the plot, the roof and what you are actually short of.
Depth is the wrong instinct here
A deep rear extension on a short Welling garden is the move people ask for and rarely the right one. Three to four metres with the ground floor reworked behind it does more for less.
The side return is the best value work
The alley beside the kitchen is doing nothing. Filling it in adds the width a galley kitchen never had and the garden is untouched, which on these plots is the argument that settles it.
The loft is the one direction left
Interwar roofs here convert without the structure coming out, and nothing outside changes. On a house that has been full for five years it is often the whole answer.
Not every house here has a garage
These streets were built before a car per household was assumed. Where there is one it converts well, and where there is not the loft and the side return are the two moves worth pricing.
The order a project runs in is on planning your project, and over 200 verified reviews are on the reviews page.
Next step
Come and have
a look at it
Tell us roughly what you have in mind and we will come to the house in Welling, measure up and talk through what is possible. The survey is free, the quote is itemised, and no deposit is taken at any point.
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