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We can transform lofts in various exciting ways. For example, we could turn your loft into an additional bedroom or a combined living room and home office. Whatever ideas you have for your loft conversion, you can let us know.

In meticulously designing your loft space, we can make sure it meets your exact needs. The many options available for your loft conversion range from walk-in wardrobes to eaves storage, allowing you to maximise the usable space. 

While the loft conversion work is still underway, our builders will use tin hat roof scaffolding in place of traditional scaffolding. Therefore, you can rest assured that your house will never be left vulnerable to the elements.

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Types Of loft conversion We Design & Build

L-Section Conversion

Here, two dormers are built to join together at a corner.

Rear Mansard Conversion

This conversion can keep the roof flat while leaving one outer wall sloping slightly inwards.

Hip To Gable With Rear Dormer Conversion

By straightening an inwardly slanted end roof, we can create a vertical wall.

Rooflight Conversion

Without expanding the existing space, we can add in windows and reinforce the floor.

Rear Dormer Conversion

This creates a structural extension that protrudes in a box shape from the roof’s slope.

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Guide For Loft Conversions

This is something we will investigate when we undertake a site survey of your home. As part of the survey, we can study the building’s foundations as well as any beams or lintels that would need to take the extra weight added by a loft conversion.

If your house would need underpinning to withstand this increased weight, we will let you know, as it could significantly affect the cost of your loft conversion.

As we draw up the proposed design for your loft conversion, we will be happy to indicate to you how much headroom the converted loft would provide.

Remember that the loft space will need enough room to accommodate a staircase that leads up into the loft, while we might have to readjust your heating and hot water system, too. An unvented hot water cylinder, for example, would occupy a cupboard-sized space.

Your loft conversion will require Building Regulations approval regardless of whether the need for planning permission applies. However, we can make sure that both are in place before we start any of the building work, enabling us to cite a fixed-free quotation for the whole project.

If your house is semi-detached or terraced, we can also help you to fulfil your obligation to notify your neighbour of your loft conversion proposals.

If so, you should think carefully about how windows should be installed in your loft. We could fit rooflight or skylight windows relatively easily, as they would not entail many structural changes.

Alternatively, you could have us fit dormers – roofed structures that, projecting vertically beyond a pitched roof’s plane, would give you the option of “conventional” windows in your conversion. Dormers would, however, require planning permission if fitted at the front of your house.

Our workers can cut insulation to fit between and on the underside of your rafters. We will use high-performance insulation that nonetheless will be as thin as possible, as we know that we will need to fix the plasterboard to those rafters through the bottom layer of insulation.

It’s not just heat, though, but also sound you want to keep in your loft. We can soundproof the new floor as well as any party walls.

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Your Loft?

In turning to Luxury Nest, you can benefit from a “one-stop shop” for all of your loft conversion needs. For households anywhere in London, we can manage every stage of a loft conversion project – from drawing up and revising the design to completing all of the “little jobs”, like sorting out the electrics and plumbing, as and when the project requires.

If you accept our fixed-fee quotation, we will carry out an architectural survey, taking exact measurements of your loft space and putting together all working drawings and structural calculations necessary for the project. If the work won’t be classed as permitted development and you will need planning permission you don’t already have, we will submit these drawings and calculations to the council to seek this planning permission.

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It’s easy to approach us for an initial, free consultation where you can discuss what you have in mind for the loft conversion – just phone 0203 340 7112. After the consultation, you can then book a free site survey.

At your property, we will use this site survey to discern what could be practically achieved in your loft space. Our findings will inform what type of loft conversion we recommend for you.

Once planning permission (if necessary) has been obtained for your loft conversion, building control has been notified and party wall agreements have been struck, we can commence with assembling, installing and fitting out essentials for your loft conversion.

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Loft conversion FAQ’s

Reassuringly, in many homes, lofts can be converted under permitted development – and so, consequently, no planning permission is necessary. The Government has relaxed the planning rules to make it easier for many people to improve their homes.

However, some loft conversions would require planning permission – and the matter of whether your loft conversion would require it will depend on:

  • What type of loft conversion it will be
  • The intended size of your loft conversion
  • What type of house you live in

Your loft conversion would have to fit within limits including:

  • The use of building materials similar to the existing house
  • A dormer wall set back at least 20cm from the existing wall face
  • Windows that are non-opening if under 1.7m from the floor level
  • Volume not exceeding 50 cubic metres in additional roof space if the house is detached or semi-detached

You can contact us for further guidance about the permitted development rules.

Yes. The permitted development rules define your “original” house as either how it was designed when first built or, if it was first built earlier than 1948, as it stood on 1 July 1948.

Therefore, if a previous occupant of your home has extended its loft, this work would have eaten into your own allowance of cubic metres.

If you are considering a different type of home improvement, such as a house extension, you should carefully research what permitted development rules would apply to this.

A lawful development certificate is a document confirming that your home improvement project was legal when originally developed.

If you apply for and obtain this certificate, you will be able to show it to your local authority to avoid being hit with financially costly penalties in case permitted development rules change. You can also show the certificate to potential buyers of your home to reassure them that the build was legal.  

These certificates can be obtained for various home projects, such as kitchen extensions.

Unfortunately, permitted development rights don’t apply to all types of house. Therefore, you would need planning permission if you wanted to have a loft converted in any of these types of house:

  • Flat
  • Maisonette
  • Listed building
  • Home in a conservation area

Fortunately, obtaining planning permission for your loft insulation in any of these instances would not necessarily be arduous, as you could simply arrange for us to carefully prepare and submit the application for that planning permission.

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