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Knock-throughs & new openings in Lancaster & Morecambe

Planning a knock-through in Lancaster & Morecambe? We open up kitchens, dining rooms and through-lounges — engineered, signed off and left ready for plaster.

Lancaster's sandstone terraces and Georgian town houses, and Morecambe's Victorian and Edwardian terraces, mean solid stone and thick brick walls, so we size the propping and bearings for the masonry that's actually there rather than assuming modern brick.

A knock-through joins two rooms into one — most often the kitchen and dining room, or the front and back rooms of a terrace or semi. We also form new doorways and widen existing openings, including large openings in rear walls for bifold or sliding doors.

Recent knock-throughs work

What’s included

  • Kitchen-diner and through-lounge knock-throughs
  • New doorways and serving hatches
  • Widening existing openings
  • Rear wall openings for bifolds, sliders and French doors
  • Openings into new extensions
  • Blocking up old doorways and openings

Lancaster and Morecambe fall under Lancaster City Council building control, or a registered building control approver.

Knock-throughs & new openings in Lancaster & Morecambe: your questions answered

Do you cover Lancaster & Morecambe?

Yes — Lancaster & Morecambe and the surrounding area are part of our regular patch. Lancaster and Morecambe fall under Lancaster City Council building control, or a registered building control approver.

Do I need planning permission for a knock-through?

Usually not for internal walls in a house. You do need Building Regulations approval if the wall is load-bearing, and listed building consent if the property is listed.

Can you form an opening for bifold doors?

Yes. We install the steel lintel or goalpost frame the engineer specifies and leave the structural opening sized to your door supplier's dimensions.

Will a knock-through make a lot of dust?

Cutting masonry is dusty, so the work area is sheeted off, dust extraction is used on cutting tools and the site is cleaned at the end of each day.

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Knock-Throughs in Lancaster & Morecambe?

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