Loft Conversions in Wellingborough, priced in writing before anything starts.
Lofts are the one part of a Wellingborough house that the valley position does not affect at all, which makes them a refreshingly straightforward conversation here.
The older housing has cut roofs, with rafters and purlins and space that can be opened up and strengthened. The purlins are the members doing the real work, and where a previous owner has cut one for a hatch or a water tank the roof has been quietly weakened. That gets found at the survey rather than when the new floor goes in.
Head height needs measuring rather than assuming, because floor build up and insulation take more out of a roof than anybody expects, and being a hundred millimetres short along the walking line is the difference between a bedroom and an expensive storage space.
The modern housing on the newer neighbourhoods 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 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 conservation areas, particularly in the villages where a designation may be protecting the setting of something significant, anything altering a visible roofline will be examined closely. 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 North Northamptonshire 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 Wellingborough 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 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 council. On the modern estates there is usually room to stand the lift on your own ground instead.
Escape, fire separation and stair position are all Building Regulations matters and all far easier to resolve on paper than after the joists are down.
We check the loft for a water tank and for its condition before quoting, because moving to a sealed system changes the job.
Part of our wider building work in Wellingborough.
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.
