Loft Conversions in Kenilworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
Kenilworth has some of the better lofts in the district, because the Victorian and Edwardian villas were built with roofs that had proper pitch and proper height.
On those houses a conversion is often the best value space available, since the roof and the walls already exist and the structure is generous enough to work with. Head height still needs measuring rather than assuming, because floor build up and insulation take more out of a roof than people expect, but the odds here are better than on most stock.
The conservation area is the constraint. Around Avenue Road anything that alters the roofline the street can see will be looked at closely, and a dormer on the principal elevation is not permitted development anywhere in any case. Rear dormers and rooflights are a far easier conversation, and on these plots the rear is usually where you want the space anyway.
The twentieth century housing across the rest of the town is trussed, which means the structure has to be reworked rather than strengthened. Normal work, and not the same job as a cut roof.
The permitted development volume allowance is forty cubic metres on a terrace and fifty on a semi or detached house. Escape, fire separation and stair position are all 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 Warwick District 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 Kenilworth street to the next.
On a semi, where new floor beams bear on 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 and this is the usual reason a start date slips by a month.
Steels that will not go up the stairs come in through the roof, needing a lift and a part day road closure. On a villa plot there is generally room to stand the lift on your own ground, which makes this considerably simpler here than in a town centre.
Almost every villa loft here has a cold water tank in it, and a conversion has to deal with that rather than build around it. Moving to a sealed system is usually the cleanest answer and it frees the whole roof space, but it changes the pressure and flow everywhere in the house, so it is a decision to make deliberately rather than one to discover halfway through.
Part of our wider building work in Kenilworth.
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.
