Professional advice

There is only so much advice that we can provide.

For instance, there may be certain things that you wish to do in and around your home to improve its energy efficiency and to raise your living standards that will closely involve specialist professional advice. Also, the age of you home may determine the best solution.

There is only so much advice that we can provide.

For instance, there may be certain things that you wish to do in and around your home to improve its energy efficiency and to raise your living standards that will closely involve specialist professional advice. Also, the age of you home may determine the best solution.

You may want to add more space by building rooms in your roof or have a completely new extension in character with you existing property. Or you may want to build a garden room as an office, playroom or perhaps, a gym.

These all demand very careful consideration and almost certainly the advise and skills of a professional person such as an architect, surveyor, solicitor or energy efficiency expert. If you are in a conservation area an expert will know exactly what is permissible or how you can effectively and economically meet the planning requirements.

Indeed, if whatever you are planning involves building work you will need to consult your local planning department and the building control people.

Don’t be afraid to speak to them, they really are very approachable and always interested. After, all the earlier contact you make and the more the more precise can be with your the ideas less work there is for them!

WHAT'S WHAT

For any of the tasks around the home where drawings are required, there’s nothing to stop you doing your own. But you must be fully aware of what materials are available and how best they can be used to achieve energy efficiency.

So you will need a pretty good knowledge of the energy efficiency and characteristics of all manner of products and materials and how they will best work in you home.

More often than not the experts have all this information at their fingertips and can produce plans to fit your bill in next to no time and economically! And, of course, if you are using an accredited local builder to carry out your work he may well bring in his own design arrangements!

Professional advice

CONTACT A PROFFESIONAL contact

The NHIC will forward your request to one of our members.





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