Loft Conversions in Leamington Spa, priced in writing before anything starts.
Leamington lofts are unusually varied, because the town has three quite different roof types and the Regency one is the awkward one.
Behind the parapets of a spa era terrace the roof is often not the simple pitch the street elevation suggests. Valleys, hidden gutters and roofs that drain inwards rather than to the eaves are all common, and a conversion has to work around drainage that is already there and already the weakest part of the building. It is entirely doable, and it is not a job to price from the pavement.
Victorian and Edwardian housing gives cut roofs with usable space, subject to head height, which needs measuring rather than assuming. 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 insulation are in.
Later housing out through Lillington and Whitnash is trussed, which means the structure gets reworked rather than strengthened. That is normal work but it is not the same job as a cut roof and should not carry the same price.
The permitted development volume allowance is forty cubic metres on a terrace and fifty on a semi or detached house. A dormer facing the road is not permitted development anywhere, and in a Leamington conservation area anything altering a roofline the street can see will be examined closely. Rear dormers and rooflights are a much easier conversation. 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 Leamington Spa street to the next.
On a terrace or 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. In a converted Leamington townhouse there may be several parties rather than one, and identifying them takes longer than people expect.
Steels that will not go up the stairs come in through the roof, which means a lift and a part day road closure. In the centre of town, with controlled parking, that needs arranging well in advance and we price it in rather than springing it on you.
Part of our wider building work in Leamington Spa.
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.
