Loft Conversions in Market Harborough, priced in writing before anything starts.
A loft here runs into the same front and back distinction as everything else in Market Harborough, and in Little Bowden it is decisive.
Because the Article 4 direction there covers front elevation alterations, anything that changes the front roofline is firmly a planning matter. A front dormer is not permitted development anywhere in any case, but in Little Bowden even a rooflight on the front slope needs treating as an application rather than an assumption. Rear dormers and rear rooflights are a far easier conversation and are usually where the space wants to go.
Head height is the other early question and it is the one that most often ends the discussion. On the older housing near the centre the roofs were not built for standing room, and a steep looking roof can still leave you short of two metres along the walking line once the floor build up and insulation are in. We measure at the quotation rather than after.
The estate housing around the town is trussed, which means the structure gets reworked rather than strengthened. Routine work for us and not the same job or the same price as opening up 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 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 Market Harborough street to the next.
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 and they are 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 arranged with the county. On the estates there is usually room to stand the lift on your own ground instead.
We measure the head height ourselves rather than taking a previous quotation at its word, because it is the single most common thing to be optimistic about.
Part of our wider building work in Market Harborough.
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.
