UPVC & Brick Porches

You will quickly adapt to having a porch available for depositing and storing jackets, coats, shoes, umbrellas etc. and wonder how you ever managed without one in the first place. It will hugely help you free up floor space throughout the rest of the house. Porches are efficient in a different respect too in terms of the extra bit of thermal comfort they can inject into homes. They include energy rated glass and the accompanying frames are just as energy efficient. Mid Wales also adds an insulating roof to each of our UPVC and brick porches.

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For what it costs, a porch gives you an awful lot back. It will become one of the main points of storage around the house, and you can furnish and decorate the interior to provide guests with a welcoming setting into the building. Everything from your favourite coat to any hats and scarves can be hung up somewhere inside of the porch. The build-quality will be top notch too, with Mid Wales making a conscious effort to craft a UPVC or brick-built porch that fits in with the character of the property.

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When a customer opts for a UPVC porch, they usually do so for several obvious reasons. They will have an awareness of the thermal and insulating qualities of UPVC, and be enticed by the prospect of never needing to clean the porch. The fact that UPVC will help you restrict energy usage is a momentous point if you want to try and minimise the carbon footprint of your house. UPVC is also easily moulded for those wanting a porch design offering decorative gable ends and a curved external bead.

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We’re opening ourselves to claims of exaggeration when we say that you can have a UPVC porch provided in almost any colour, but it’s the absolute truth. Mid Wales uses a special paint development process that enables us to create old traditional finishes like White, Black and Grey, along with a host of modern and period colours, such as Chartwell Green. If you have a specific colour in mind, just tell us what it is.

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On the whole, planning permission isn’t usually required for porches as the majority of them fall under Permitted Development Rights. Not having to submit a planning application means you can have your porch installed more quickly. A porch will be categorised as a Permitted Development so long as (1) the internal ground floor area does not exceed three square metres; (2) no part of the porch is more than three metres above ground level; (3) no part of the porch is within two metres of any boundary of the dwelling and the highway.

Building Regs - In the past, some homeowners have made the mistake of confusing planning permission with building regulations approval, which can prove costly. Generally, porches are exempt from building regulations, but only when they are less than thirty square metres in size, measured internally. The main front entrance door between the existing house and new porch must also remain in situ, and the new porch must not adversely affect any ramped or levelled access. Any fitted glazing or fixed electrical installations must also comply with current building regulations.

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