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Seconding what @Sam_w says. A half-decent builder will advise you on the process anyway.
My experience:- Choose a builder
- Get structural engineer to do some calculations
- Share those with local council building control
- Crack on with knocking down wall and inserting steel
- Building control come and say 'Yes very nice'
- Carry on with building work
- Choose a builder
Quincy
Sam_w
Beginner question on home improvements requiring the use of professionals; how do you know whether you need an architect, technical drawings, room specialists or just a builder?
I've got a standard 1960's mid-terraced house (floor-plan below), I'd like to knock the wall between the kitchen & the lounge down, install new modest spec kitchen, rip up tile flooring for the whole of the downstairs & replace with something nicer (probably wood).
I'd like to get quotes from people but have no idea what the above would actually cost so don't want to waste people's time if we're miles away from the cash - could anyone take a guess on a ball-park figure please?
Phase two would be a single story extension out the back but we don't really need that for a few years whereas knocking through would make a definite improvement now.