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Please use terracotta tiles if a 60's terrace (I really hope they are not the tiles you talk of ripping up).
The benefit of an architect is they will consider every little detail (if they are good).
I recently had a bit of a nightmare with my bathroom floor as I have been planning it all myself and had no idea how to build up a sub floor resulting in a 50mm threshold change when going tie/out of bathroom.Luckily the architects I used for the extension still tolerate me and were able to spec up the floor to reduce that threshold, whereas the floor supplier was giving out a bit of a blanket recommendation.
You defo don't need an architect, but they will bring a finer level of detail and consideration than a builder alone (as that's their job) and hopefully add a "delight" factor to the space, whereas a builder will likely only add square footage.
You could of course just crowd source every decision like I have done.
As King of the Castle said, you'll need a structural engineer regardless, so I'd be inclined to do self design > structural engineer > good builder.
What you are after isn't massive so shouldn't cost loads, I would imagine sub 10k but no real idea.
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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.