Why AHIDO?
Extending or converting will add size and value to your home. But getting it wrong can be disastrous.
Maybe your family is growing. Or you're working from home now. Either way, AHIDO will help you get crystal clear on how to extend or convert your home with a programme designed to help homeowners.
AHIDO will:
- Help you find additional space in your home
- Teach you the 100 Essential Space Planning Rules for home extension to help you redesign your home without making irreversibly costly mistakes
- Tell you if you need planning consent or if Permitted Development applies and what building regs you must follow
- Help you work out your development profit so you can budget sensibly and raise funding for your development
- Help you decide if you need architects, a QS etc, help you recruit the right tradespeople and advise how to work with them so they meet your expectations
- Ensure you buy materials in the right quantities and at the right price potentially saving £1,000s
- Help you project manage well to ensure the quickest possible construction time and minimal disruption and inconvenience to you and your family
Planning a home extension?
Understanding the value you could add to your home and how much it would cost you is the starting point for any property extension.
Unsure where to start?
Why not try our FREE checklist and online calculator to reveal any hidden space and value in your home.
Our calculator uses your local construction costs and local house valuations to help you estimate how much profit you would make by extending your home.
Answer the 7 questions in the checklist, apply them to the calculator, and in less then 30 minutes you will see whether your home extension project is viable.
Introducing Our
9-Step Home Extension & Conversion Programme
If you’re struggling with these issues, the good news is that we have a 9-Step signature system that will show you how to Transform Your Home from being too small and cramped for your growing family, to being a roomy, comfortable brilliant space for you all while adding £1000s to the value of your home.
Step 1: Agreeing Your Goals
We'll help you outline what each family member needs from their home in terms of space and usage to make them happy.
Step 2: Where You Live
We'll help you take an in-depth look at the potential your home offers - not just the buildings and land (if you have a garden) but also the outlook from it.
Step 3: Your Dream Design
With our '101 Essential Space Planning Rules for Home Extension & Conversion' guide and 'Bespoke Floor Plan' service you can start turning your dream into reality.
Step 4: Checking Approvals
We'll help you work out if you need Planning Permission or if your conversion falls under Permitted Development, and will "rubber stamp" this for you.
Step 5: Costing & Budgeting
We will help you cost your project line by line, providing you with a Home Extension & Conversion Cost Plan to avoid any unwanted surprises.
Step 6: Valuations, Funding & ROI
We will help you get your home valued both pre and post-development. Our Development Plan will ensure your project is profitable and will help raise funding.
Step 7: Proven Providers
Our team will show you how to recruit effectively and how to brief and manage your own team to ensure you get the best bang for your buck from your project.
Step 8: Brilliant Buying
We will show you how to engage commercially with your chosen providers to get the best from them, plus how to buy materials at value-for-money prices.
Step 9: Proven Process
Using our Project Planning Tool, you will be able to agree construction schedules to ensure your project runs as smoothly and as quickly as possible.
Proof of the Pudding
These are the EXACT same steps that our team of property experts have been using for decades on residential developments throughout the UK and overseas.
We've collated all the tips and tricks that every successful property developer uses to develop great homes. Well designed homes that fit your and your family's needs.
AHIDO is a knowledge base of videos, downloads and support designed to help homeowners who are extending or converting their own homes to avoid a costly and painful learning curve.
You're One Call Away From Adding Significant Space and Value to your Home
Starting your journey has never been easier with a no-obligation 15 to 30 minute progress call at a time best suited to you.
In this session we can openly discuss your needs and what we can do for you.
Simply select when best works for you and click a couple of time slot options in the calendar below.