How To Extend Your Home And Get It Right First Time

Book excerpt: Every 24 minutes, someone, somewhere in Britain starts an extension on their house, but regrettably a shocking number of these building projects ends in total disaster. Perhaps you’ve suffered the consequences of a dodgy builder firsthand, or at the very least will know someone who has. So the prospect of entrusting them to create your dream home is anathema to you. But what if the reason so many home extensions fail wasn’t down to cowboy builders or incompetent architects? What if you knew the real reasons building projects go belly-up, and how you could avoid making the same mistakes? This book is a step-by-step handbook on how to extend your home, and get it right first time. The author officially Britain’s ‘most heavenly builder’, and co-runs a multi-award winning architectural practice. He understands the house extension industry from the inside out, so there is no one better to guide you past the pitfalls of the house extension process than Deepak. Before diving in head first to extend your home, invest the time to educate yourself in the home extension process, because this book may just save you from a home improvement nightmare.