Build Loft Conversions With The Help Of Experts

Loft conversions for UK houses are subjected to strict regulations

, like most other types of extensive exterior home improvements or renovations. Before any work can be started on such developments, building permissions must be sought and all necessary regulations met. The structural strength and condition of your existing property has a big influence on whether or not you will be granted permission to commence with your loft conversion. Most lofts or attics can be converted in someway into valuable storage or living space, and when completed will often create the largest area of living space in the entire house. Loft conversions are also the top home improvement for adding value to your property. In some cases good quality loft conversions have been known to add up to 40,000 onto the value of a home.

There will of course be some very talented (and some less talented but very ambitious) folk who see a loft conversion as a large scale DIY project. I wish them all the luck in the world but its not a project I would recommend taking on you. I would strongly advise you employ the services of a qualified architect and a builder with experience of similar loft conversion projects, because the additional load you will be placing on an existing floor needs to be professionally assessed. By all means save money in other areas such as sourcing the materials yourself, decorating the new room yourself, perhaps even insulating the room yourself. Ive seen one or two poor quality loft conversions that led to structural damage to the properties, and ended up costing the owners a lot more to put right than the services of a professional builder and architect wouldve done.

Once your Loft conversions plans have been approved and signed by you the homeowner, youll have to submit them to your Local Authority for approval, which normally takes between two and three months to complete. Once youve received approval from your local authority, the next step is to prepare Building and Fire Regulation Plans to submit to your Local Authority Building Control department. This submission will generally take around 6 weeks to complete.

Once approval has been granted you then need to serve Statutory Commencement Notice upon the Local Authority Building Control Department in accordance with the Regulation 14 of the Building Regulation 1985 (amended 1994).

As mentioned above one of the major benefits of, and motivations behind, many loft conversions is that they can significantly increase the value of your home. Should you decide to sell your property the prospective buyer's surveyor will check on the permissions for the conversion, and its compliance with the relevant regulations. Its therefore not worth cutting corners or taking chances. Do the job properly using professional builders/architects. This is the best piece of advice I can offer you. The additional cost of using professionals is offset by the peace of mind you will receive knowing that the job has been properly, to a high standard, and will stand up to the scrutiny of any surveyor.

by: Yogesh Giri

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