Planning permission now submitted, what do we do now? Renovation

6 years ago

We have only just put in our planning application (UK) and expect it to take around 8 weeks for approval. It is a renovation - removal of a few walls separating kitchen and dining room, installation of sliding doors and 3 velux, and block up old doorway into kitchen and addition of a new doorway in.

We have not looked a builder yet, so I believe now is the time to get a few quotes and then perhaps come to an agreed time when the work will get done. We show builders our drawn up plans and ask for quotes. Should we be asking for rough quotes. Or are we looking for detailed quotes at this stage? We certainly dont have a detailed list of every single little thing that will be involved in the kitchen renovation.

We will be getting a new kitchen and sliding doors. At what point should we actually start looking at these? I have an ideasbook on here so do have an idea of what style I am looking at. Have also a rough plan of the space with the appliances/units planned out. We havent gone into any kitchen stores as we know it will be at least 2 months til we get the planning permission and be lucky if we can get a builder to do it by the end of the year.

Do we get builders that will do everything, or just the build? Do we get separate kitchen fitted and door installer?

When to order the kitchen and doors? I guess that will come down to when our selected builder agrees to do the work eg if they say 'october' then perhaps we order kitchen/doors 6 weeks ahead of then (assuming they take 6 weeks to make/deliver)

Any help at all is welcome!

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ODC Door & Glass Systems

6 years ago

Hi there. Good luck with it all! As far as the glazing elements are concerned, the earlier you plan these the better. If the sizes are standard, the lead times may be as short as 3-4 weeks, but with bespoke sizes you will be looking at 12 weeks. Hope it all goes well!

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Ellie
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6 years ago
Thank you. I am pretty sure they are standard sizes, but that is something we can go and check now with suppliers!
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Jonathan
6 years ago
I think you should plan your kitchen much earlier. Firstly it might affect some choices with the building- like electrics, lighting, internal door positions and extraction.
You should also consider what type of kitchen you want as some will take lots longer to arrive- for example if you wanted a German kitchen this would likely take 8/9 weeks to arrive, this could be more for certain finishes, some European manufacturers close down over the summer so you may need to factor in a 4 week August shutdown too.
Lastly I have seen lots of debate on this forum and many people spend significant time getting the right layout, your kitchen showroom will need a little time to process the order and overall the time between first visiting a showroom a having a kitchen delivered could be 18 weeks.
If your builder starts an 8 week build in October then you will need your kitchen at the end of November which means (including August shutdown) you need to start planning your kitchen at the end of June, although there is no harm in looking now.
JesmondDene
6 years ago
Just slightly ahead of you, doing similar. My experience is that it has taken us much longer to contract a builder than we thought. Appointments need to be made, not always for the same week, and quotes put together by the builder, on average received two weeks from the appointment. We also had two builders who couldn't do the work ( ours includes a loft extension), one that was more than double the price of another and one that kept us waiting for a quote and 6 weeks later still hasn't sent it. It means that we now need to start again contacting builders if we want a decent range of quotes as we really only have one if we discount the astronomical one!

It isn't a criticism of the builders, just my surprise at how time passes!

Leave plenty of time would be my advice ( unless of course you are married or related to a builder)
Daisy England
6 years ago
Leave plenty of time for the builder. Our current time frame is 4-5 months and if most contractors have the same waiting time you need to get quotes and work out your kitchen plan.
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6 years ago
Hi

I agree with Jonathan, you need to take into account lead time for some elements e.g. kitchen and you would need to know at least where all appliances will be before 1st fix is done.You can get proper quote for 1st fix as long as you have layout ready and then ,the cost of 2nd fix will mainly depend on the finishing materials. If you live within M25 we would be happy to meet on site and discuss everything with you in more details.
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OnePlan
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...and book your designer early too - like good builders, we get booked up quickly too!
Gillian
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hi, we are having a front double storey extension, and our advice would to be get a schedule of work done from your architect so you know all the builders quotes are based on the same work therefore you can compare apples for apples. then further down the line they can't turn round and say that will be more money as we didnt include that in our quote. we know exactly what our builder is doing for the quote. and once we picked a builder we had to wait 3 months to fit into his schedule. :-)

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