We have a 4 bed detached house with a roof that needs quite a lot of work. Perhaps needs replacing. All the guttering needs replacing (its old cast iron, cracked, leaking etc). Now I work from home full time and my partner also works from home perhaps 1 day every other week so we are thinking that this would be a good chance to kill many birds with one stone.
We want solar and batteries, we want to completely change the heating/hot water system so we can have a nice waterfall shower and ideally we would like another bathroom.
We're in the process of starting to look into all this but the sticking point at the moment is architects. Those that have done this, did you get an architect who specialises in loft conversions? Go with a company that does everything for you? Just find an independent firm/architect. From looking around there are plenty available but obviously their marketing material on their sites is all "look at this amazing eco house we built" rather than "look at this boring loft conversion".
I'm kind of of the view that loft conversions in general are dull and paint by numbers but this might be completely wrong. I have no doubt there is some complexity to the implementation but I also don't want to be hiring an expensive architect to do something which doesn't require that.
So what are peoples thoughts. What route did you guys with loft conversions go down?
We want solar and batteries, we want to completely change the heating/hot water system so we can have a nice waterfall shower and ideally we would like another bathroom.
We're in the process of starting to look into all this but the sticking point at the moment is architects. Those that have done this, did you get an architect who specialises in loft conversions? Go with a company that does everything for you? Just find an independent firm/architect. From looking around there are plenty available but obviously their marketing material on their sites is all "look at this amazing eco house we built" rather than "look at this boring loft conversion".
I'm kind of of the view that loft conversions in general are dull and paint by numbers but this might be completely wrong. I have no doubt there is some complexity to the implementation but I also don't want to be hiring an expensive architect to do something which doesn't require that.
So what are peoples thoughts. What route did you guys with loft conversions go down?