Loft conversions
Loft Conversions in Bexleyheath
Rear dormer and hip to gable loft conversions across Bexleyheath, built by our own team. The loft is the one place these houses can grow without losing any garden.
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Working in DA6 and DA7
The roofs
around here
Bexleyheath is where a loft conversion earns its keep more clearly than anywhere else we work. Plots through Crook Log, Northumberland Heath and out towards Barnehurst are tighter than in Bexley or Dartford, so a rear extension costs you garden you may not have to spare. The loft costs you nothing outside at all.
The housing is mixed. Close packed interwar terraces and semis on the tighter streets, and larger detached and semi detached houses nearer Danson Park with deeper roofs and more of them to work with.
On the terraces the roof usually already ends in a party wall rather than a hip, so a rear dormer on its own is the whole job. On the semis and detached houses the hip is normally there and squaring it off is what unlocks the floor.
Head height on the interwar stock here is generally sound. The thing that decides most Bexleyheath conversions is not the roof at all, it is where the staircase can go and what it costs you on the floor below.
Types of conversion
Which conversion
your roof will take
Almost every loft we convert in Bexleyheath is one of these six. There is more on all of them on the main loft conversions page.
Rear dormer
The standard job on a DA7 terrace, where the roof already gables into the party wall on both sides. Flat roof, as wide as the house and the volume allowance permit, and standing height across the useful part of the floor.
Hip to gable with rear dormer
On the semis and detached houses, particularly nearer Danson Park. The hipped end is rebuilt square and a dormer runs across the back, which together give a full width room rather than a strip along the ridge.
Hip to gable
The hip squared off on its own, leaving the rear roof line as it is. Sometimes the right answer where a full dormer would sit badly against the neighbouring roof, and it is worth pricing both.
Rooflight conversion
No change to the roof shape. Insulate, floor, staircase and roof windows. Only viable where the height is already there, which on the deeper roofs near Danson Park it occasionally is. Always worth measuring before anything larger is priced.
Mansard
The rear roof rebuilt almost vertical for the largest possible floor. A full planning application in nearly every case and more common on terraces than on semis, where the roof shape suits it better.
Bungalow loft conversions
Chalet style houses appear across DA6 and DA7 and the roof work involved is a bigger job than a standard loft. The chalet conversions page sets out what that actually means.
Recent loft conversions
Completed Projects
Typical loft conversion £60,000 to £85,000, eight to twelve weeks on site
What it costs
Straight answers
on price
- £60,000 to £85,000Loft conversions
- 8 to 12 weeksOn site, start to handover
- No depositBilled in arrears, free survey and itemised quote
A rear dormer on a straightforward cut roof sits near the bottom of that range. A hip to gable with a dormer, a shower room, a rebuilt heating system and a staircase that needs the floor below reworking sits at the top. What the roof is made of moves it more than the size of the room does, which is why nobody can price your loft in Bexleyheath over the phone. We come and look at it first. More on costs
Local detail
What we find
in Bexleyheath lofts
Four things that come up often enough on these roofs to be worth saying before you ask.
A terrace gets forty cubic metres, not fifty
Permitted development allows a terraced house forty cubic metres of additional roof space against fifty for a semi or detached. On a narrow DA7 terrace that difference decides how far a dormer can come forward, and it is checked before drawings rather than after a refusal.
Two party walls instead of one
Mid terrace means notices both sides, and a dormer that meets the party wall needs the neighbour's agreement as well as the council's. Talking to both early is worth more than any amount of paperwork afterwards.
Everything comes in over the scaffold
On these plots there is often no side access at all, so material goes up the outside and waste comes down the same way. That is actually good news. It keeps the inside of the house usable for most of the eight to twelve weeks.
The loft costs no garden
On a short DA7 plot this is the whole argument. A rear extension takes outside space you cannot get back. A loft conversion adds a bedroom and a shower room and leaves the garden exactly as it was.
We also build house extensions, garage conversions and whole house renovations in Bexleyheath. For everything we do in the town, see builder in Bexleyheath.
Next step
Find out what
your loft will give you
Send us the details and we will come to the house in Bexleyheath, get up into the roof, measure the height properly and tell you what it will take. The survey is free, the quote is itemised, and no deposit is taken at any point.
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