Loft Conversions in Hinckley, priced in writing before anything starts.
The first question on any Hinckley loft is head height, and on the late Victorian housing near the centre the answer is often better than people expect, because those roofs were built with reasonable pitch.
Measure before you get attached to the idea though. A roof can look generous from the hatch and still leave you short of two metres along the walking line once the floor build up and the insulation are in. We measure at the quotation rather than after.
The permitted development volume allowance is forty cubic metres on a terrace and fifty on a semi or a detached house, which sounds ample until a dormer is drawn and it is not. A dormer on the roof slope facing the road is not permitted development anywhere, and in the Druid Street conservation area, where the buildings read as a single tightly dated group, anything that changes the roofline the street can see will be looked at hard. Rear dormers and rooflights are a far easier conversation.
The modern estate housing out towards Burbage and Barwell is trussed, which means the structure has to be reworked rather than simply strengthened. That is normal work and we do it regularly, but a trussed roof and a cut roof are not the same job and should not carry the same price.
Escape, fire separation and stair position are all Building Regulations matters and all easier to solve on paper than after the joists are down. 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 Hinckley & Bosworth Borough 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 Hinckley street to the next.
Most loft material goes up through the house, which suits the narrow frontages near the centre. Steels are the exception, and where they will not go up the stairs they come in through the roof with a lift and a part day road closure. On the Victorian streets that needs arranging with the county in advance, and we price it in rather than springing it on you.
On the terraces and pairs near the centre there is a further step. Where the new floor beams bear on a wall shared with a neighbour, that is notifiable under the Party Wall Act and the notice has to be served properly before work starts. Most awards go through without argument, but the notice periods are fixed, and this is the most common reason a Hinckley loft conversion sits waiting on a start date it did not need to lose.
Part of our wider building work in Hinckley.
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.
