All looks liveable with? I’d personally just move in and spend the year seeing how the space and light works for you. I’d speak to some local loft conversion companies and architects (and also visit your neighbors to see what they did!). But I’d aim to get all the work done together eventually.

We’ve been in our house just over a year, and our ideas certainly evolved over this time. It’s also meant that the rooms we knew wouldn’t be changing we’ve been able to decorate so we have spaces to enjoy our home, despite the awful kitchen we’ve been enduring ;)

Hi Jen,
Sadly the boiler needs replacing and the interior is quite dated, so we would definitely need a rough idea I think to be able to know where to start and where the boiler should be installed. We essentially have until winter to do this so that the house can be kept warm. I’m also the type to want to start ASAP and get things moving haha! A couple of photos of the interior :)

Oh my that’s fantastic! I love the layout and having the entry way at the front! Looks like this would definitely maximise the space in the loft too! Thank you for posting!
One question, where should I put the boiler??? :)

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Ps- make sure you can get planning permission to move your front door before putting your new boiler by your current entry

Ah!!!! Perfect!!! You are a superstar, thank you so much! I will do! :)

This may be a silly question but why do you need to move the boiler now? Just replace it, but tell the engineer you will be looking to do s loft conversion and possibly move it soon. No way I’d spend 500-1000 on moving a boiler unless I was 100% certain of where it would be spending the rest of its days!

Also may not be able to move to current entrance hall as flue would vent into porch??

Jens right- the boiler will need a slightly longer flue- no biggie

It looks more complicated than that though. It looks like you couldn’t attach the boiler to the porch wall. So you’d need 90 degree turns in the flue to vent externally. And if you do vent through the porch, you’d have to hope the flue fits above the porch doors. A lot of potentially unnecessary work imo

Jen- I think your gas safety training is incomplete because you are worrying about things that can easily be overcome- firstly boiler flues exit the boiler at the top and then turn- whether they turn to go through the wall behind the boiler or sideways through another wall makes no difference. Since we haven’t seen pictures we don’t know what the porch is like- it might be that the porch door is naff and coming out, or there is space above or to the side of the door, or there may be room in the space between floors for the flue or it may be able to go straight up and out of the main house roof. Regardless let’s not create problems that probably don’t exist.

Hi Jen, the boiler currently has a hazard warning *stay away you may die* sign on it. With new babies I would ideally like to get it done sooner rather than later though. The front porch is very bad, will need redoing completely so Im hopeful it can be overcome? :)

Personally I think your plumbing and heating specialist will be able to fit a horizontal flue. However if it needs to go vertically that shouldn’t be a problem either as it will go against a wall upstairs and can be boxed in.

This time with a better picture of the position of the flue if it has to go vertically through the bedroom above

Absolutely amazing, completely agree! I’m almost certain it can go out through the porch, but if not straight up also seems perfectly fine! :)

All problems can be overcome at a cost Jonathan. However you appear to be suggesting the poster moves a boiler, a doorway and installs a relatively complicated flue. What are your qualifications out of interest as you ask about mine ;) ? The poster may decide in 6 months that ideally they would have a different layout, but have already moved the boiler so have unnecessarily limited their options.

Given the limited amount of information we all give the best advice possible from our own experience- I’m sorry Jen doesn’t agree.

Given we don’t know the house sizes, budget, planning constraints we don’t know with certainty if anything suggested is possible. But if it were my house I would prefer the boiler to be in the utility than in the main entrance (but I concede budget may dictate otherwise).

As far as this being a complicated flue some boilers can have horizontal flues of up to 8m long and an extension to the one supplied with the boiler is rarely more than £50 - given the stated aspiration of a loft conversion I felt it was safe to assume this £50 was in budget although Jen is right that moving the boiler may be an expense too far given the work you intend to take on. Equally if you intend reconfiguring the house your existing heating pipework may need to be relocated and moving the boiler may be easily done at the same time.

Since this post is mainly to get inspiration for a new layout and I have done my best to give one possibility that delivers the stated aims I don’t feel any defense of my efforts is necessary.

In my humble opinion the boiler conversation could pose a different discussion on a different thread as if your end goal is to have three bathrooms you may prefer to get a system boiler with a hot water storage cylinder to better deliver your hot water. In which case you need to put the cylinder somewhere- you could get rid of the side porch to make the proposed utility bigger in order to also accommodate the cylinder.

Double post, I just commented here: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/old-bungalow-conversion-new-floor-plan-dsvw-vd~5675333#24063469 (thanks Jonathan for letting me know)