Loft Conversions in Warwick, priced in writing before anything starts.
Warwick lofts split cleanly between the historic core and everything else, and the core is the harder half.
The post fire buildings have cut roofs, often steeper than a modern roof and sometimes with the original timbers still in place. Where those timbers are historic fabric, and in a listed building they are, the conversion has to work around them rather than through them. That is a design problem with good answers, and it is not a job to price without going up there.
Head height needs measuring rather than assuming, in any building. 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 the insulation are in.
Out at Warwick Gates and Woodloes Park the roofs are trussed, which means the structure gets reworked rather than strengthened. Normal work, and not the same job as a cut roof.
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 the Warwick conservation area, where the roofscape of the post fire town is a large part of what is being protected, anything visible from the street will be examined hard. On a listed building a rooflight is a consent matter too. 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 Warwick 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 in the centre of Warwick, where medieval plots put buildings hard against each other, that applies to most conversions rather than a few. The notice periods are fixed and they are the usual reason a start date slips.
Steels that will not go up the stairs come in through the roof, needing a lift and a part day road closure. On the narrow streets in the centre that takes real arranging, and we price it in rather than springing it on you.
In a terrace of historic buildings, fire separation between properties at roof level is frequently absent and needs forming as part of the work.
Part of our wider building work in Warwick.
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.
