Loft Conversions in Burton Latimer, priced in writing before anything starts.
Lofts in Burton Latimer split cleanly between the industrial era housing and the modern estates, and the two are genuinely different jobs.
On the older terraces the roofs are cut, with rafters and purlins, and the timbers were sized economically for a town building fast and cheaply. A conversion is often perfectly possible, but the structure usually needs strengthening rather than simply adapting, and where a previous owner has cut a purlin to fit a hatch or a water tank the roof has been quietly weakened. That gets found at the survey rather than when the new floor goes in.
On the modern estate housing, which is most of the town, the roofs are trussed. A trussed roof has no usable space until the structure is reworked, which means introducing new structure to carry the roof and the new floor independently before the redundant truss members come out. It is routine work and it is not the same job as opening up a cut roof.
Head height needs measuring either way, because floor build up and insulation take more out of a roof than anybody expects.
The permitted development volume allowance is forty cubic metres on a terrace and fifty on a semi or detached house, and on the estate plots a rear dormer inside that allowance is frequently achievable without an application. Escape, fire separation and stair position are Building Regulations matters. Our loft conversion page goes through the structural options.
Four things we commit to on every job, rather than four things we say about ourselves.
Permitted development is not an exemption from Building Regulations. We arrange the North Northamptonshire Council inspections, meet the inspector on site at each stage and see the work through to sign off. We do not make the application itself, and we will tell you what is needed and when.
Free, and you get it before you commit to us. Party walls and skip licences are raised at quotation stage, not three weeks into the dig.
The same people do the groundworks, the brickwork and the fit out. Nobody hands your job to a subcontractor you have never met.
You get a straight answer rather than a padded price. It costs us a job occasionally and saves you a great deal more.
Process, specification and what moves the price are set out on our loft conversions page.
The answers that genuinely differ from one Burton Latimer street to the next.
On most estate plots a lift or crane can stand on your own ground, so steels that will not go up the stairs can come in through the roof without a road closure, which is a real saving over a town centre job elsewhere.
On a semi, where new floor beams bear onto a wall shared with a neighbour, the work is notifiable under the Party Wall Act and notice has to be served before anything starts. The notice periods are fixed.
We measure the head height ourselves rather than taking a previous quotation at its word, because it is the single most common thing for somebody to be optimistic about.
Part of our wider building work in Burton Latimer.
Send photographs and a rough brief, or call and talk it through. We will tell you if a job is not right for us.
Southfield Construction (Rugby) Ltd, registered in England and Wales, company 14209138.
