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Old Market Loft
Many people, certainly in the UK, are not moving house at the moment because of the economic woes and because, quite simply, there is very little on the market. Everyone is sitting tight. But when a family of three small boys becomes a family of three large teenagers and two of them don’t want to share any more, an extra room needs to be found. And fast, if family harmony is to be maintained. So consider converting the loft.
Can All Lofts Be Converted?
If the loft at the top of the house has a headroom in the centre of at least 2.4 metres (UK regs), then it most likely will be possible to convert it into living space. Under 2.4m of headroom, and it won’t, unfortunately.
The steeper the pitch of the roof, the better. And UK houses built before 1960 tend to be more suited to loft conversions because they had traditional rafter-and-purlin construction, rather than W-shaped supports that span the roof cavity. The latter make a conversion more difficult.