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RV Construction are Derby loft conversion experts, serving numerous locations throughout the East Midlands. For a loft conversion in Melbourne you’ve arrived at the right place.
All the builders working for the company are all time-served expert masters that perform the task to an exceptionally high level of quality – every homeowner is left totally satisfied.
We can carry out almost any house improvement scheme. Our core skill is joinery. This enables us to be specialists in the field of attic conversions. However, we are similarly adept at kitchen restoration, house extensions, conservatories, roofing work and staircase building and construction.
Our highly-skilled attic conversion team can transform your home; using the latest methods and materials, into the house of your dreams!
We have no sales facilities, no non-productive personnel- so overheads are very low, meaning that all you need to spend on is the job performed on your home and nothing else.
RV Construction offer the total service from preparing to conclusion. Phone or email us for suggestions or a free site appraisal.
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The expense of a loft conversion will depend upon a lot of options that you make. It is a big project, so the expense bands are quite broad. The main aspect that will affect the final expenditure is the kind of attic conversion you choose to get.
The typical prices for Velux attic conversions are 15,000-20,000 pounds. For a conversion with a dormer, the price upper and lower range is typically 30,000-60,000 pounds. A hip-to-gable conversion will change the shape of your roof and will typically cost ₤40,000-₤65,000. The most costly choice is a Mansard loft conversion. This will change the entire shape of your roof and will typically cost ₤45,000-₤70,000.
A three bed semi with Dorma which would consist of stairs, fire doors, all electrics, pipes – generally everything – would around cost ₤17,500 with the VAT. There is a luxurious plan available which includes, painting, carpets, lighting and sockets for an additional expense determined by requirements of the homeowner.
When you are taking a look at these price totals, keep in mind that the larger the size and the much better the finish, the higher up the expense bracket your conversion will be. There are a lot of decisions you can make to equate your result with the expense. The most crucial thing to do is set a budget plan and after that devise a feasible plan.
According to fact-finding performed by Nationwide, a loft conversion which integrates a double bed room and shower room could add as much as twenty two % to the value of a three-bedroom, one-bathroom house. However, don’t presume that value contributed to your house will always exceed the cost of your conversion.
You will have to do some extensive research study on other surrounding houses before anything else. Take a look at the maximum value of similar-sized homes in the street. Compare this with the current value of your property, sum quoted for the work and additional square footage. Are you likely to recoup your expenditure and increase the value of your house?
If the answer is yes, then a loft conversion could absolutely be for you!
It’s a issue many homeowners deal with at some point. A house that once offered ample space for your growing household all of a sudden appears frustratingly small. Naturally, you ask yourself whether the time is right to sell up and move somewhere bigger.
However determined you are for extra living space, weighing up the expenses of a home relocation can be off-putting. Stamp duty, legal costs, surveys and more could amount to several thousand pounds, and it’s money you won’t see again. There are other factors to consider too, not least your emotional attachment to your home and the possibility of kids changing schools.
So what is the very best way to extend your property – on a budget – without the upheaval of moving, and improve your house’s value? A house extension is the obvious response. This offers versatility of design, enabling you to include the wanted amount of extra space to your property. But for a number of home owners a home extension won’t be feasible for reasons of time and cost.
Rather, you could look skyward for inspiration, towards your unused attic space. Your attic might be appropriate for conversion depending upon various factors. These consist of roof structure and height and the practicalities of putting in a staircase. A loft conversion boasts numerous advantages over an extension. It is less likely to need planning permission and won’t reduce garden size. In many cases, it can be finished in a much shorter timespan and could cost less too. And yes, it may add a tidy sum to the value of your property.
You can ask us to visit your home and check this out for you, however there are likewise a couple of checks that you can perform yourself prior to this.
An easy way to get an concept of whether your attic can be converted is to see whether any similar houses on your street have had attic conversions. If you do find examples, it’s more likely to be a possibility. If you can, it’s also worth going one action more and asking to take a look at the loft of anybody in your street that has had it done.
The minimum height you need for a loft conversion is 2.2 metres, and you can quickly determine this yourself. Take a tape measure and run it from the floor to the ceiling at the tallest part of the space. If it’s 2.2 metres or more, your loft could be tall enough to convert. Victorian houses tend to be lower than those built from the 1930s onwards, so may not have enough head height.
Depending on when it was built, your home will either have roofing trusses or rafters. By putting your head up into your loft hatch, you will be able to know straight away what type of roofing you have.
Rafters run along the edge of the roofing and will leave most of the triangular space underneath vacant. Trusses are supports that run through the cross-section of the loft. Transforming a loft with trusses is possible, however extra structural support is required to replace the trusses, and it’s likely to be more pricey.
Many people neglect to consider changes to the floor underneath the loft space when planning a conversion. It’s worth having a think of where the staircase is likely to go and how much space it may use up. Even a properly designed space-saving staircase could use up a sizeable piece of a space, so make sure you have space you’re happy to lose.
There are 4 primary types of loft conversion: roofing light, dormer, hip-to-gable and mansard. The one you choose is likely to be figured out by a variety of factors, including the type and age of the home you live in, and your spending plan.
Roof light attic conversions are without a doubt the most inexpensive and least disruptive option, as you won’t need to make any changes to the shape or pitch of the roofing. Rather, it’s just a case of adding in skylight windows, putting down an appropriate floor, and including a staircase to make the space habitable. However, you’ll need to have sufficient roofing space currently without having an extension for this type of conversion.
A dormer attic conversion is an extension that protrudes from the slope of the roofing. Dormers, in particular flat-roof dormers, are the most popular type of conversion. They appropriate for pretty much any home with a sloping roofing.
Dormer attic conversions are less costly than mansard or hip-to-gable conversions, however will still include a good deal of extra headroom and floor space.
Hip-to-gable attic conversions work by increasing the sloping ‘hip’ roofing at the side of your house outwards to create a vertical ‘gable’ wall, creating more internal loft space. This type of conversion will just work on detached or semi-detached houses, as it needs a free sloping side roofing.
If you have a detached house with sloping roofings on either side, you can build on both of these to create an even greater large double hip-to-gable extension.
Mansard attic extensions run along the whole length of your home’s roofing and will alter the angle of the roofing slope, making it nearly vertical. These tend to be the most costly type of conversion, however will result in a substantial amount of extra space.
Mansard loft conversions appropriate for many house types, including terraced, semi-detached and detached houses.