Loft Conversions in Nuneaton, priced in writing before anything starts.
The first question on a Nuneaton loft is which roof structure you have, because the town has both in quantity and they are different jobs entirely.
The Victorian and Edwardian housing around Chilvers Coton and Stockingford has cut roofs: rafters and purlins, with space that can be opened up and strengthened. These make the better conversions where the head height is there, and head height needs measuring rather than assuming, because floor build up and insulation take more out of a roof than anybody expects.
The interwar, post-war and modern estate housing at Weddington, Whitestone and Attleborough is trussed. A trussed roof has no usable space until the structure is reworked, which is a proper structural job rather than a matter of boarding out. It is routine work for us, and it is not the same price as a cut roof.
The permitted development volume allowance is forty cubic metres on a terrace and fifty on a semi or detached house, which sounds ample until a dormer is drawn. A dormer facing the road is not permitted development anywhere, and in the Abbey conservation area the Article 4 direction tightens things further.
Escape, fire separation and stair position are all Building Regulations matters and all far 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 Nuneaton & Bedworth 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 Nuneaton street to the next.
Where new floor beams bear on a wall shared with a neighbour the work is notifiable under the Party Wall Act, and on the tight Victorian terracing here that applies to most conversions rather than a few. Notice periods are fixed and they are the usual reason a start date moves.
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.
On the older cut roofs here the purlins are the part to look at first. They are the members doing the real work, they are frequently undersized by modern standards, and where a previous owner has cut one to fit a water tank or a hatch the whole roof has been quietly weakened. That gets found and dealt with at the survey, not discovered when the floor goes in.
Part of our wider building work in Nuneaton.
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.
