Loft Conversions in Crowborough | Covering Sevenoaks, Uckfield and the East Sussex Area
Has your house started to feel tighter for space in recent times, or has a work-from-home position begun to impact your productivity? Moving probably won’t be an option, and why would you want to relocate from a home you love anyway, especially with the costs involved? One way to gain habitable space without major construction work is to optimise part of the build that already exists but which, as with many properties, is most likely underused.
Yeoman Building Contractors, located in Crowborough, can undertake loft conversions for customers in the surrounding Sevenoaks and Uckfield areas, and in all locations across East Sussex.
Customers can choose loft conversions in 4 basic styles.
Rooflight Conversions
Our entry-level loft conversions at an attractive price point in attics that have the floorspace and headroom required already. Our builders and trades can install Velux windows into the roof so that natural light floods in. This creates the welcome impression of extra space and affords a much roomier feel.
Velux is a market-leading brand in the field of rooflight manufacture.
Dormer Conversions
These conversions see our builders extending roofs with box-shaped additions that rise vertically to achieve more headroom and optimise the floorspace that already exists. Because the dormer style creates natural right-angles, the box has a flat style but can be built into an existing roof with a slope easily.
Windows face onto the world outside to give you excellent views.
Mansard Conversions
As we move into mansard loft conversions, the building work becomes a little more extensive. Yeoman Building Contractors essentially creates what is a new flat roofing structure by elevating the rear walls and extending the roof backwards. This produces spacious rear walls with slopes at an angle of 72°.
This style adds the most amount of extra room to your attic space.
Hip-to-Gable Conversions
With this design, our builders remove the hipped side of the roof then extend upwards on the outer wall so that it is restructured at a 90° angle. This turns the hip into a gable, but with a dormer also added on some jobs so that it faces out from the rear of the home to allow views onto your garden space.
This style is unsuitable for mid-terraced properties with no gable ends.
Reasons to Convert Loft Space
It isn’t uncommon for the homeowners we meet to feel torn between having a property extended or the loft converted. If you are planning a project in Crowborough or the surrounding Sevenoaks and Uckfield areas, or any other location in East Sussex, we would advise you to think about how much the loss of valuable garden space would affect you, and to consider that work on extensions will run for much longer than work on loft conversions.
Cost is also a factor. With a conversion, you are optimising space that exists in the home already rather than increasing the property’s footprint.
Loft conversions also offer other benefits, which include:
- Most conversions fall within permitted development and won’t require planning permission from your local authority
- The early stages of a conversion happen through the roof. You won’t see our builders inside until the later phases
- Should you ever sell your home in the future, loft conversions attract buyers and add to market resale values
- You can use a conversion for any purpose imaginable, from an extra bedroom to a mancave or a new cinema room
The only limit to what you can do with a conversion is your own imagination.