Conversions - General jobs in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire

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I am thinking of splitting my living room in two so I will end up having a smaller living room + an office/guest room.
As I don't want to lose day light, the idea is not to brick all the wall, but just a small part of it covering the door frame + around 0.7 meters up from the floor, plus a big window.

The job is in central Cambridge.

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To convert a room into a cinema room. The floor needs raising, the falt roof requires insulation and the walls need plastering. Some utility pipes also need to be hidden by some woodwork, or similar.

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I like to convert my two car garage to a bedroom and a bath

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Remove two internal walls. Two new ceilings. Remove back door. Remove window. Install new window. Make good all walls and woodwork.

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I have a terraced 2-bed Victorian house in central Cambridge. I would like to have the partition wall between the front room and rear dining room knocked through, as is often done on houses of this type, to make one large sitting room. I have had a structural engineer take a look and calculate the beam required. Then make good and replaster. Also the floor to the front room would need to be laid to pine boards as in the rest of the house (currently there are rather shabby oak boards of a different width). I would also like to discuss optional enhancements, e.g. cabinets in the chimney alcoves or underfloor insulation.

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I'm looking for a quote for several different jobs in same house. Please provide separate quotes for the different 'jobs' listed below.

1. Connect kitchen with lounge to create open-plan layout: a) remove approx 3m internal wall & install beam if needed; b) replace exterior door & small window with larger window & brick up gap; c) replace interior door with partition wall; d) repair/plaster walls & ceilings as needed. It is not clear whether the wall in question is load-bearing, it will need visual inspection.

2. Build a walk-in closet in upstairs bedroom 1: a) install two short pieces of partition wall; b) install a door; c) install shelving and racks; d) install overhead light (will need wiring); e) make good walls as needed.

3. Build a closet over stairwell in upstairs bedroom 2: a) install floor over stairwell, allowing sufficient headroom; b) install short wall section as needed; c) install door; e) make good walls as needed.

4. Install folding loft ladder: a) enlarge loft access hole if needed; b) advise on purchase of folding ladder; c) install folding ladder; d) make good ceiling as needed. Possibly also installation of boarding in loft.

5. OPTIONAL: install new carpeting in 2 upstairs bedrooms, upstairs hall & staircase.

We're looking to have work start from mid/end October and completed by end November if possible. There is flexibility to continue until mid-December.

* Added 19th October, 2011 :
1. In connection with Item 1, the wall is now confirmed to be load-bearing.

* Added 1st November, 2011 :
Job has been downsized to include only Item 1.

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We want to install a loft floor to use for light storage. At the moment there is about 300mm of loose insulation laid between and over the joists. We've already got about 10 square metres of chipboard panels for the flooring. We'd like these to be installed somehow while keeping the current standard of insulation, maybe by raising the joists so the insulation doesn't need to be compressed. We'd prefer the work to be done in the next month or two.

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We need to take out part of a load bearing wall and have a suitable lintel put in to open up the dining room into the lounge.

We need the structal part done and the door frame put in(we will provide door frame) along with the light switch relocated a small distance. The surrounding area to be made good with plaster, but no painting needed. The existing wooden floor in one of the rooms would need protecting as we want to keep but the carpet in other room is to go.

Looking for job to be done around May 2011

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I have a small toilet downstairs that I would like to extend and convert into a small bathroom with shower, sink & toilet. This will need walls moving, a radiator, a fan extractor & tiling.

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knock through wall between existing bathroom & separate WC. close up one doorway & fit new bathroom (including WC, basin, bath with shower over) & tile.

Also knock through current serving hatch in to doorway (1.2m wide) between kitchen & dining room

* The following information was added Friday, 25th December, 2009 :
Work to commence approx 18/01/09 or ASAP after this date

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We have planning permission for side and rear extension, but initially planning to start with garage conversion.We plan to start in November, so, do not have too much time. Garage is a part of the house and we need to build the wall ( with window ) in place of the garage gate, close the side window, replace another and cut the door toward the house. We plane to have utility room in place of garage and would like to replace the boiler and move it from chimney in living room to that utility room. In that utility room we plan to have underfloor heating and small wet room with toilet and shower.

* The following information was added Wednesday, 23rd September, 2009 :
We do not need plastering work and we plan to do wet room at the next stage together with kitchen.