Loft Conversion From Colchester

Hi,

Having a website for my business and putting work pictures on it with basic write up about them, i realised a
blog would accompany it quite well so..........

Loft Conversion

This was a major undertaking, it was a roof with a small loft conversion already in and it gave an added
bedroom however more space was needed. so the house went from looking like this.......

View from in the back garden











View from the front.










A you can see the original loft conversion wasn't any great affair, in fact about as basic an, well, lets face it,
about ugly bugly as you can get for such a construction. I am sure it suited its purpose when it was done originally but the now owner needed a little more space.

To gain what was wanted the roof needed some fundamental changes made to it, it needed to go from a
four sided pitch to a two sided pitch with gable ends. Making that change from four to two makes a big
difference on the area that can be used.

The old roof was deconstructed from right to left looking from the front as you can see

Once so far along the new construction began

The pictures show just how much work is involved in such projects, as its an awful lot! and coupled with the
time it takes to complete its certainly not for the faint hearted.

Once the rafters are all in place the dormers are constructed.

Jumping on a little further with the roof constructed and the dormers all in place, covering the roof and
dormers in felt and battoning for the tiles.

Once at this stage the worst is far behind, and now showing just how much of a transformation the property
has undergone. As the tiles were put on it only got better.
Original plan was to tile the dormers the same as the roof, however, life is flux and a different finish was
decided on.

Finished in black Hardi plank it gave wooden plank look and works very well. Although I'm not a real fan
of the fake wood there is no arguing with it, once its done you don't need to touch it again.

The piste de resistance is the gargoyles adorned on the dormers, wonderful.

This conversion took several months from start to finish, and although not privy to the all of the costs
i would say around £40k wouldn't be too far out and maybe a little under. This one was defiantly a
Don't Move, Improve! as it added value to the property with its size and quality.

For more info in work done visit my website  www.jdppropertymaintenance.co.uk

JDP

 

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