Cellar conversions are great but very costly. You can look at paying around £1000.00 per cubic metre
but they make good games rooms, kitchens, studies, utility rooms, gyms - you can even have a swimming pool installed.
Project 1 - Conversion of cellar to make use of unused space to provide an office and a utility room.
We were lucky with this cellar as the headroom was 2 meters already, this made easy work for us builders.
We had to lower by 300mm to insulate and make watertight. We then had to tank the walls,
that is waterproof the walls with a sand and cement with a sika additive.
Fire proof the ceiling and board.
Plaster complete.
This cellar conversion was in Bromley North West Kent.
Project 2 - Small cellar conversion to provide a children's playroom and utility room. Height 2 metres, all walls and floors tanked using Skia System.
No such luck here.
We had a lot of excavation to do as well as lower the floor by 1.5 meters; we had to
remove to soil to walls to make this 4 meters by 3 meters. 17 skips later we were ready for retaining walls.
The client wanted to use this for dry storage only.
This small cellar conversion was in Lewisham south east London
Project 3 - Wasted arch space converted to provide a dry storage area and toilet facilities.
These were old arched coal bunkers.
We had to take back the top landing by 600mm.
Widen the patio area below
In one of the arches we supplied and fitted a toilet and hand basin.
The other arches where used for dry storage and bin enclosures.
These works were carried out in Chelsea central London.
Chelsea, a parking nightmare for us builders!
Project 4 - Basement / cellar conversion and a basement garden
This basement renovation/ conversion was carried out in Lee SE12 London.
It is a 4 story Edwardian property.
The cellar / basement was already there but had some damp and was in need of a complete renovation.
The clients looked straight out of their kitchen window at the lawn that was about 1.4 meters high from their floor level.
They wanted us to take the back of their wall out and reduce the level of there garden patio area and create a court yard at a lower level.
We took over a hundred a 20 tons of soil away to do this.
You can see we have take most of the soil away now to the new courtyard area.
We have carried out connections to the drainage for the water to soak away.
Now we have completed the excavation to the courtyard area we are now ready to install all of the steelworks that have been calculated by an structural engineer.
Once all of the steelwork is in place we then have to pour the concrete floor.
We need to work quick now as there is a chance of all the soil and clay collapsing in on us.
We build the concrete walls first in front of the steel work and then pour concrete behind the concrete blocks to cover the structural steel work
These show you the walls all in place and the flat rendering complete.
We have also laid a limestone patio area to both levels of the garden.
The stairs have also have limestone slabs and a steel track ready to take the glass banisters.
These show the basement garden / courtyard finished.
The glass banisters' are in place and the glass walls.
The concertinaed doors are fitted and the basement area is decorated with a white exterior paint. We also added flowerbeds at a lower level and a concrete bench with a timber decked seat with storage underneath.
This massive light well now gives also an outside room feel.
What a great design and build by London and Kent Construction.
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