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  • An extra bedroom & bathroom is going to give us a few extra years in our current place so we're currently all about loft extensions.

    Has anyone had one done / does anyone have any experience of them?

    What can we take on ourselves to save a few pennies?

  • 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.

  • Cheers Andy

    We have an indoor person lined up (for studwork, plastering, tiling, plumbing etc...) - he's done a lot of work here before, and always left things in a pretty reasonable state.

    We're a little wary, though, based on next door's horror story of the past year or so.

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