Loft Conversions in Rugby, priced in writing before anything starts.
Whether a Rugby loft can be converted is usually settled by the roof structure, and the roof structure is settled by when the house was built.
The Victorian and Edwardian terraces near the town centre have cut roofs: rafters and purlins, an open void, and generally the head height to work with. The post-war and later housing out towards Bilton, Hillmorton and Overslade is much more likely to be trussed, where the roof is a web of timbers holding itself up and a conversion means restructuring rather than simply lining out.
Neither is a no. They are different jobs at different prices, and we tell you which one you have after we have been in the loft rather than before. The scope is on our loft conversions page.
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 Rugby 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 Rugby street to the next.
Many loft conversions are permitted development, but that is a starting assumption rather than an answer. Volume allowances, whether the property is a house or a flat, and whether permitted development rights have been removed all decide it, and a dormer to the front is treated differently from one to the rear.
Every loft conversion is a Building Regulations matter regardless of the planning route, and fire escape and structural work are the parts that drive the design. We arrange the inspections and see the work through to sign off.
A loft conversion is the job where scaffold, not the skip, is the access question.
On the terraces that front directly onto the pavement there is nowhere to stand a scaffold except the highway, which needs a licence from the council before anything is erected. On the semis with a driveway and a side return the scaffold usually stands wholly within the property and no licence is needed.
Inside the house, the staircase opening is the point at which the job stops being contained in the loft. We plan that break-through late in the programme so the house stays sealed and usable for as long as possible.
Part of our wider building work in Rugby.
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.
