Service
Villa extension
An extension is the scope where what you are permitted to build governs everything else — and it is established before anything is designed or priced.
Adding to a villa engages the plot, the permitted built area, setbacks, height, the applicable authority route and, where the property sits inside a master community, the community route as well. None of that is negotiable and all of it is property-specific. We establish what is permitted for your address before scope and price are put in writing, because a design produced before that is a drawing rather than a plan.
How we work
- Dubai villas and townhouses onlyWe work on villas and townhouses owned and occupied by the people who commission the work.
- Written scope before priceThe existing condition, the requested work, and what is deliberately included and excluded — written down before a figure is attached to any of it.
- Exclusions stated in writingWhat the price deliberately does not cover, visible before you commit rather than after.
How we work
Proof before promise
Know the scope. Know the price basis. Then we build.
We do not compete on a headline figure or a headline duration. We compete on whether you can see what you are buying before you commit to it.
- Existing condition, recorded. What is physically there, written down at survey.
- Findings, stated. Including the ones nobody wanted, because those are the ones that move the price.
- Scope, defined. Item by item, so that "included" is a document rather than a memory.
- Inclusions, exclusions and assumptions, written. What is in, what is deliberately out, and what is being assumed until something is opened.
- Approval considerations, identified. Which permissions apply to your property and who issues them.
- Price drivers, visible. Measured items, named allowances and stated provisional sums rather than one absorbed rate.
- Construction and hidden work, evidenced. Recorded before it is covered.
- Finished result, against the document it started as.
Scope
What villa extension covers
Scope is set per property. This is the range the service works within, not a fixed inclusion list.
- Feasibility against the permitted envelope — establishing what the plot and the applicable rules actually allow for your specific property.
- Approval route identification — which permissions apply, who issues them, and what each requires.
- Substructure and structure — foundations, slabs and frame to an engineered design.
- Envelope — walls, roof, waterproofing, insulation, glazing and external finishes.
- Services extension — power, water, drainage and cooling extended to serve the new area at the capacity it needs, rather than borrowed from a system already at its limit.
- Interface with the existing villa — the junction where new meets old, which is where movement, water and level differences all have to be resolved.
Inclusions, exclusions and cost drivers
What moves the figure
- What is permitted
The permitted built area, setbacks and height for your plot define the scope before anything else does.
- Ground and substructure
What the foundations have to be, which follows from the ground conditions and the structural design.
- The junction with the existing building
Structural connection, waterproofing continuity, level matching and movement provision at the interface are detailed work, and they are priced as such.
- Services capacity
Whether the existing incoming supply, distribution and cooling capacity can serve the extended property, or has to be upgraded.
- Approval requirements
What the applicable route requires by way of design, submission and inspection, and how that shapes the programme.
Process
How the work runs, stage by stage
- Inquiry review
We read what you have sent, check the property type and the community against what we actually take on, and tell you plainly whether it is work we should be quoting for. An inquiry we should decline is declined here rather than three meetings later.
- Site survey and existing-condition record
We attend the property and record what is physically there: service capacity and routes, wet-area construction, substrate condition, structural arrangement, access and waste routes, and whether the household stays in occupation. This record is the input to everything after it.
- Findings and defined scope
What the survey found is written down, including the things that were not what anyone assumed. From that, the scope is defined item by item — what is being done, to what, and to what standard.
- Price basis: inclusions, exclusions, assumptions
Each item is priced as a measured item, a named allowance or a stated provisional sum. Anything deliberately left out is written as an exclusion. Anything that cannot be known until something is opened up is written as an assumption rather than buried in a rate.
- Approval path
We identify which permissions your specific property and scope require and who issues them — authority, master developer, community or utility — and build that route into the programme instead of discovering it during construction.
- Mobilisation and protection
Work areas are separated from living areas, routes and finishes that are staying are protected, and the waste route, working hours and service-shutdown windows are agreed before the first tool comes out.
- Controlled construction with written changes
Work proceeds against the agreed scope. Anything that departs from it becomes a written instruction stating the scope change, the cost effect and the programme effect, and it is carried out only once you have accepted it.
- Hidden-work record
Waterproofing, first-fix services, substrates and anything else about to be concealed is recorded before it is covered, so that what is behind the finish is documented rather than remembered.
- Snag list and clearance
We walk the completed work with you, write the snag list down, clear it item by item and record each item as closed rather than treating completion as a verbal agreement.
- Handover and documentation
You receive the completion record for the work: the defined scope as built, the written changes, the hidden-work record and the cleared snag list.
Workmanship
What the finished standard looks like
The images below show the type of space and the standard of finish this service is built to.
Evidence
Published records for this service
Evidence slot pending
No project record is published for this service yet.
A published Rawdha record has to carry the project code, the community and property type, the customer objective, the before condition and findings, the scope with inclusions and exclusions, the approvals, price drivers and changes, the hidden-work and completion record, and exact written publication permission. Until a project completes all of them, this slot stays visibly empty rather than being filled with an anonymous interior.
FAQs
Questions people ask before they write
Can we extend our villa?
That is answered by the permitted envelope for your specific plot and the applicable approval route, not by the size of the garden. Establishing it is the first piece of work, and it happens before any scope or price is written.
What approvals does an extension need?
Typically an authority route, and where the property sits inside a master community, a community route as well. Which ones, and what each requires, is established for your address during planning.
How long does an extension take?
The approval route usually governs the programme more than the construction does, and its duration is not within our control. A programme is issued for your specific project once the route and the scope are established. We do not publish a headline duration.
Can we live in the villa during an extension?
Often yes, because the work is largely outside the occupied envelope until the junction is opened. The phasing, the isolation at the interface and the service-shutdown windows are written into the scope.
Where do the materials come from?
Structural, envelope and finish materials are specified in the scope document. Where a selection is still open, a stated allowance is carried rather than an assumed one.
What happens if the approval is refused or changes what we can build?
The scope is revised to what is actually permitted, and the price basis is reissued against the revised scope. This is exactly why the envelope is established before construction is priced and why we do not take deposits against a scope that has not been established as permissible.
Related
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Enquiry
Ask about villa extension for your property
Tell us the community, the property type and what you want the finished space to do. We will tell you whether it is work we should be quoting for, and what a survey would need to establish.
What happens after you write: your message is reviewed against the property type, the community and the work we take on, and you get a straight answer either way. If it is work for us, we set out what a survey would need to establish and propose a date — no figure is issued before that survey.
Or email info@rawdhaalaqsa.com.
Next step
Start a scope review
Describe the property, the community, the areas involved and the outcome you want. That is enough to begin a review.
Standard of finish
The standard of finish we work to
Drag the handle to move between a dated existing condition and the finished standard we build to.
