Double-storey extensions in Ruislip

Consult Hillingdon’s Ruislip Village conservation-area leaflet and boundary.

Note services that run between the two floors and rooms you need to keep using. The Ruislip proposal should coordinate structure, circulation and occupation across the whole addition.

Mark the visible service positions and the rooms they support on the existing plan. Add the proposed wall openings and explain which facilities you hope to keep in use while the extension connects to the house. Do not prescribe new routes yourself; identify known positions and questions for assessment. Include access to the rear or side work area and any previous drawings. For Ruislip, check the relevant Village conservation resource only against the property's actual location. The practical benefit is a brief that joins the new room to the existing services and household arrangements. Product choices and fitting can then be discussed with their dependencies visible, instead of being added after the main building scope has been assumed complete.

Confirm the council using the property postcode and give the designer any relevant map or decision reference. A named area is a starting point for checking this address, not an assessment of the whole town. Treat sketches and examples as discussion material until the property-specific work has been reviewed.

• Hillingdon: Ruislip Village conservation leaflet
• Find the council for your property

Our team offers practical guidance on layouts and finishes. Formal drawings and planning work are arranged and coordinated through the design partner. Practical guidance is not the production of architectural drawings; agree the professional scope and fees for your proposal.

Falcon supplies agreed first-fix materials and carries out the agreed building and fitting work. You buy agreed second-fix items, such as kitchen units, bathroom fittings and flooring, with guidance. The quote should say who supplies and fits each item, and how changes will be agreed.

Keep product choices and required delivery dates with the scope. Confirm dimensions and compatibility before buying items that affect preparation or services. If a choice changes, ask how that affects the agreed work before treating it as a like-for-like replacement.

The cost depends on the assessed scope, existing condition, design and chosen specification. Compare Falcon’s contract price with your total project spend: add homeowner purchases and any professional, application or other fees outside the building quote. Ask for the VAT treatment and exclusions to be explicit.

Time on site is only one part of the programme. Keep design work, property checks and approvals, lead time, procurement and construction separate when discussing dates. Explain any move, school or household commitments as requirements to discuss, not a start or completion date already agreed.

Begin the project discussion with drawings and photographs of your own home. The existing Falcon galleries show specific extension and room work in New Malden and Camden. Those photographs are not presented as a completed double-storey extensions project.

Send existing drawings or safely taken property photographs to explain what you have. A finished picture can help describe a preference, but it cannot show the hidden construction or settle which alterations are suitable.

Include your actual property postcode and describe the existing plans of both floors, roof views and records of any earlier addition. In the Ruislip brief, distinguish facts you know from ideas you want assessed. Keep service positions and access during the build with the drawings, and identify any decisions already made so their effect on the connected work can be discussed.

Say which drawings or decisions already exist and what still needs to be explored. Include the wider project if several services are involved. The enquiry form keeps the page you came from and lets you choose the project type that best describes your current plans.