N° 013
Extra floor at Edappally
Extra floor or extension · Edappally, Kochi · 2025
A new upper floor on a 1990s flat-roofed house, with an outside steel stair so each floor has its own door. The family lived downstairs throughout.
- Kind
- Extra floor or extension
- Status
- Handed over
- Where
- Edappally, Kochi
- Built for
- A retired couple adding a floor for their son's family
- Built-up area
- 1,150 sq ft (107 m²)
- Floors
- New first floor on G
- Work started
- 4 Nov 2024
- Handed over
- 2 Jun 2025
- Took
- 7 months
- Rate
- ₹2,200 per sq ft built-up
- Old structure
- Columns tested and jacketed before the new floor went on
- Walls
- AAC blocks, to keep the added weight down
- Roof
- Steel frame with clay tiles
- Stair
- Galvanised steel, outside the house
What we did
- Rebound-hammer tests on the old columns, and jacketing of two of them
- Revised permit for the added floor
- Two bedrooms, a kitchen and two bathrooms upstairs
- Repainting the old ground floor outside
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