Owning your own home

Did it a few years ago, pretty straightforward, everything was craned to the top of the scaffold so there was little disruption til the builder broke thru the ceiling. Dunno about saving money unless you did the labouring. It's great fun anyhow, I pushed my bed under the sloping roof beneath the Velux windows so it it rains it's like camping, the pitter patter wakes you up so you go "Wassat? Oh, rain, mmmmm, duvet"

This isn't going to save any pennies (the opposite) but Neo windows are much nicer than Velux. Our architect recently introduced us to them.

We'd be on track to fit one if our upstairs neighbours would just sign off on our plans instead of objecting to things which don't affect them :/

We had ours re-done two years ago (it had been done by previous owners but in an arse about face fashion, retaining the original roof line and installing a space saver staircase half way into the second bedroom).

We wanted a full width of the house dormer window put in, which turned out really well, with double doors installed, making it a light and airy space which we really love.

I'm not sure I'd recommend the company we got to do it as the plumber they used put the toilet waste pipe into the wrong pipe, meaning it wasn't connected to the drains. They were swift to rectify the problem when we identified it six months later, but wouldn't you check if there was any uncertainty about which downpipe was connected to the sewer? There was as we said we didn't know if either of them were.