• 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?

  • TBF I didn't.
    I checked their sites, Google reviews, and any personal recs.
    The federation of master builders isn't something I have much knowledge of so would be hard to gauge standards?

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