Can a raft slab support a two-storey extension added later?

Only if it was genuinely designed with that future load in mind — a standard raft slab sized for a single storey isn’t automatically capable of supporting a two-storey addition without a proper engineering reassessment.

If a future second storey is genuinely a real possibility, telling your engineer at the original design stage lets them build in appropriate capacity from the start.

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