Do you want to create new living or working space for your household, but without any sacrifice in the land surrounding your home? Look no further than one of our loft conversions. If your loft is a musty, dark storage space that you rarely visit, the time-served team at SR Builders can transform it into a light-filled room tailored to your exact needs. Because this process involves optimising an existing structure, as opposed to constructing a new one, you can preserve your garden’s size too.
As an Eltham-based building company, we cover all neighbouring locations. This includes key service areas such as Blackheath, Brockley, Chislehurst and Sidcup, to name a few.
With a skillset covering all domestic building work, SR Builders converts lofts in every style, including:
VELUX Rooflights
Dormer Conversions
Mansard Conversions
Hip-to-Gable Conversions
It’s important to note that these conversion types do not suit every kind of home. The architectural style of your property will dictate the options available to you.
VELUX Rooflights
While suitable for almost every roofing type, a rooflight conversion best suits lofts with ample space to start with. These loft conversions are the least disruptive and most cost-effective way of repurposing your space. Our builders need to carry out little by way of structural or construction work. The internal conversion takes place within the existing confines of your loft, and we install the windows into your roof’s original slope.
Dormer Conversions
Simple and versatile, we can undertake dormer conversions on terraced, semi-detached and detached houses. It’s little surprise, then, that this is the UK’s most popular form of loft conversion. The process involves alterations to your roofing structure in the form of an extension which rises vertically out of the roofing slope. This addition creates the skeleton for your new room which, when finished, has impressive headroom, ample floorspace and a flat ceiling.
Mansard Conversions
Like dormer conversions, the mansard style is suitable for most terraced, semi-detached and detached homes. However, due to the amount of construction involved, they are more expensive and disruptive, but they deliver a significant amount of extra space. Our builders replace the original pitched roof with a structural extension. This addition runs along the entire length of your property’s roof and alters the angle, making it almost vertical. The new habitable space has a distinctive inward slope at a gradient of 72 degrees.
Hip-to-Gable Conversions
These loft conversions only apply to certain semi-detached and detached houses, as they need a roof with a free sloping side. During the conversion, we transform the sloping ‘hip’ roof at the side of your home into a vertical ‘gable’ wall. While this involves plenty of building work, it creates more internal loft space.
A fast and accurate way to find out if your loft meets basic conversion criteria is to measure its head height. You can take this measurement from the tallest part of the roof down to the floor. Industry guidelines recommend a minimum of 2.2m for a straightforward conversion that creates a comfortable room.
However, this measurement isn’t a regulation, so it’s not impossible to convert your loft if its head height is 2.1m or less. But the process will involve pre-conversion construction work to create a suitable loft. This typically comes in the form of raising the roof or lowering ceilings.
Whether you’re in Blackheath, Brockley or the surrounding London areas, you also have permitted development rights. As such, if your proposed conversion falls within the set limits, you don’t need to apply for planning permission from the local authority.
For an alternative approach to creating new living or working space at your home, SR Builders also carries out property extensions.
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07956 551475
ADDRESS: 796 Sidcup Road, New Eltham, London, SE9 3NS
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