Loft Conversions in Lutterworth, priced in writing before anything starts.
The first question on any Lutterworth loft is head height, and on the older houses in the middle of town the answer is often disappointing. A steep Victorian roof can look generous from the landing and still leave you short of the two metres you want along the walking line once the floor is built up and the insulation is in. We measure before we quote rather than after.
Where the height is there, a conversion is usually the best value space in the house, because the roof and the walls already exist. The permitted development volume allowance is forty cubic metres on a terrace and fifty on a semi or a detached house, which sounds like a lot until a dormer is drawn and it is not.
A dormer facing the road is the one that causes trouble. Permitted development does not cover it on the principal elevation, and inside the conservation area the council looks hard at anything that changes the roofline the street can see. Rear dormers and rooflights are a far easier conversation, and on the burgage plots the rear is where the space is anyway.
Modern estate houses north and east of the town are a different job: trussed roofs, which means the structure has to be reworked rather than simply strengthened. That is normal and we do it regularly, but anyone quoting a trussed roof at the same rate as a cut roof has not been in the loft.
Escape, fire separation and stair position are all Building Regulations matters and all of them are easier to solve on paper than after the joists are down. We arrange the Building Control inspections and see the conversion through to sign off.
Our loft conversion page goes through the structural options and the order the work happens in.
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 Harborough 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 Lutterworth street to the next.
Loft work is the one trade where a narrow Lutterworth frontage helps rather than hinders, because most of the material goes up through the house in manageable pieces rather than round the side. Steels are the exception. Where a conversion needs beams that will not go up the stairs, they come in through the roof, and that means a lift or a crane and a road closed for part of a day. We establish which of those you are looking at before quoting, because it is a real cost and it is not one to spring on somebody.
Part of our wider building work in Lutterworth.
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.
