DIY Loft Conversion

Waterlily24

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

Just like i said waterlily:T

Would you like to see our bill?:)

cyclonebri1

Waterlily24 wrote: »

Would you like to see our bill?:)

You did well then, when we did a big extension and re roof late last year, I can asure you the scaffold quotes were from £1100 to £1700, maybe your requirement was less. GM will need similar to what we had, hence that cost.

Waterlily24

cyclonebri1 wrote: »

You did well then, when we did a big extension and re roof late last year, I can asure you the scaffold quotes were from £1100 to £1700, maybe your requirement was less. GM will need similar to what we had, hence that cost.

I think we got a good deal, we had scaffolding all round, like you we were doing a big extension. Ours was on the groundfloor ( Large lounge and new bathroom)plus taking the whole roof off including the trusses to make the bungalow a chalet bungalow. The original roof was far too low to build any rooms in. lol I think we must have got a really good deal. Things were a bit slow around here at the time.:)

Gizmosmum_2

How long did it take you to get wind & watertight Waterlily? That's the bit I'm dreading - the minute the roof comes off it's bound to pour down!

Waterlily24

lol That's what we thought. It was quite a long time, we actually gutted the inside so it didn't really matter (we took the ceilings down too, it was only the outside walls remaining really). We moved into a mobile home in the garden, we are still in it, we are just waiting for the central heating to be put in.lol
Hubby and son did all of the roof, we only had help to get the new trusses up. We had to have a crane to do that, they were enormous.

Sorry I can't be more helpful.

darich

Waterlily24 wrote: »

lol That's what we thought. It was quite a long time, we actually gutted the inside so it didn't really matter (we took the ceilings down too, it was only the outside walls remaining really). We moved into a mobile home in the garden, we are still in it, we are just waiting for the central heating to be put in.lol
Hubby and son did all of the roof, we only had help to get the new trusses up. We had to have a crane to do that, they were enormous.

Sorry I can't be more helpful.

Hi waterlily

If you don't mind me asking, how much is it costing you roughly, to get the roof changed?
I've thought about something similar in my bungalow but frightened it'll cost tens of thousands!!

If you'd rather pm me or even not tell it's fine

thanks

Waterlily24

To be honest I can't remember, I know the new trusses were expensive (they were huge and some of the joinery works couldn't make them because they were too big for their premises lol), the crane was too. We recycled the old tiles because they weren't that old so only bought new for one side of the roof, hubby and son did all the work so we didn't have to pay for that. All we paid for was the materials, scaffolding and crane. I can look at the invoices if that's any help. Probably wouldn't be as everything is different lol.

It's almost exactly a year since it was all done.

Gizmosmum_2

Fab news Natural England have retracted their objection so we don't need to spend any precious dosh on bat surveys :j Just a minor change to plans, no objections so should be through in the next couple of weeks :T

Any idea how much roof trusses will be??? I know I should have costed them first but I almost didn't want to know. Looks like I'll need to know pretty quickly now.

cyclonebri1

Gizmosmum wrote: »

Fab news Natural England have retracted their objection so we don't need to spend any precious dosh on bat surveys :j Just a minor change to plans, no objections so should be through in the next couple of weeks :T

Any idea how much roof trusses will be??? I know I should have costed them first but I almost didn't want to know. Looks like I'll need to know pretty quickly now.

Surely it will be a conventional constructed roof rather than preconstructed trusses

Gizmosmum_2

Mmm well sounds like in the panic of costing and finding out I'm going to be skint for the forseeable I'm getting confused

This is the situation. The bungalow is a sixties rectangle and 11.3 metres x 8ish long. When the new roof goes on it will have a gable built on the front and back of the left side of the rectangle (not the bungalow gable but new ones in the roof) and the rest of the roof as normal at 90 degrees. This gives us a huge room upstairs with double aspect picture windows for the view.

The original plans were drawn up with loads of rsj's but when the builder looked at them he said it would be very difficult to get an 11 metre rsj (even in sections) into place because of the sheer weight. We'd need really expensive access equipment and our bungalow isnt in the most accessible place.

Our builder suggested that we use specially made roof "bits" that sit on the wall plates and allow the whole of the space to be used.

Does that make any sense?