porches & gates

A porch can make a huge difference to making a house warmer in the colder months, providing an area to hang coats or take off wet and muddy shoes and also of course give useful shelter to you and your visitors s they prepare to enter the house proper. Overall, protecting the main entrance from inclement weather and draughts brings the porch into its own, let alone saving your hall carpet from muddy feet. Planning permission is not normally required so long as the porch falls within certain size limits and is made from materials to match the original house construction. In other words, a tiled roof or similar is usually mandatory whereas a glass roof structure will almost certainly not be permitted.

The entrance door can open inwards (usual) or outwards and care can be taken in the design (ventilation) so that the structure doesn’t get unbearably hot if it is to face generally a southern aspect.

Ellwood can undertake not only the creation of the door and window frames but also oversee and arrange for the floor slab and any walls to be constructed. We will create the roof infrastructure too (timbers-rafters etc) with our builders finishing off the construction with a flat or tiled roof as required.