You are reading a single comment by @Sam_w and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
Sam_w
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.