• Starting to talk about a loft extension.

    • 1950s two story semi
    • would need a gable building up on one side
    • no idea how to deal with the stairscase we have one of those funny recessed stairs into one of the rooms.


    Where do we start?

    Do you get one of those all in one firms round to work out ideas? In which case is it a soup-to-nuts affair, or do you still need to get an architect?

    Our main question is how to deal with the stairscase, as that decides whether we loose a bedroom on the first floor, which decides what we need upstairs.

  • Yeah cutting into bedroom 3 as others have said could do it stair wise.

    The way I am doing a loft...

    1. Look up every loft plan on the planning portal for E17
    2. Do 10000000 plans myself based on previous architects drawings
    3. Research cladding for 4 months.
    4. Create extensive Figma and Notion files.
    5. Find cheapest builder
    6. Spend 6 months trying to get blood from a stone (aka an email reply)
    7. Bin off said builder who is a prick to the cost of £2K
    8. Find a more expensive builder thats a grown up that I should have chosen in the first place
    9. Another 6 months deciding on window size and shape.
    10. Get party wall going as neighbours always object to any work getting done because they can.
    11. Get plans redrawn by grown up (actual architect, not draftsman as per loft companies us).
    12. Melt.

    I'd prob do it slightly differently to the above to be honest, just make sure you don't end up with PVC windows and you'll be fine.

    Also everything @Sheppz said.

  • 1.5 use Google maps satellite view to find all the local conversions and help in the planning search?

    An honest question here. For finding builders, does anyone bother with checking bodies such as the federation of master builders, as a sort of quality mark?

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