Loft conversion progress pictures *UPDATED*

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Hello,
The last 8 months I have been really busy as i`ve working on my new house project:D. With the new baby due in January time is running out! and my daughter already has the back room so my office is becoming a nusery..... so the only way for me is UP.
Some people may have seen my post eairler in the year regarding some loft advice.... well after lost of research i STARTED IT!! :eek:

The hatch,
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Taadaaa... nicly opened up
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The mess
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Window installed plus the mess
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ilikebowens said:
Wow, I'm pleased with myself if I change a plug. looks like it's going to be the best loft in the street.
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lol, Thanks very much.

Jamesbuk said:
Wow thats looking pretty awesome! I'm quite jealous :p Did you have any previous experience of wood work etc?

James
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Thanks, well i`m no joiner nor i`m i in the building trade, but i do enjoy my DIY :love:

couple more for dif angles
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Really really messy this was sanding them down took me a whole day and thats using sanders...but wanted to keep the purlins on show and use them a bit of a feature, Just a light coat of varnish to protect them.
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Cool - so are you planning on fitting a stair case? or are you going for a ladder? The wooden beams in the extra pics look great too.

James
 
Jamesbuk said:
Cool - so are you planning on fitting a stair case? or are you going for a ladder? The wooden beams in the extra pics look great too.

James
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Ive gone for a ladder, would love to have the stair case but ment more building regs and also taking walls being knocked down in my daughters room to fit it.

Plasterers are back on Wednesday hopfully to finish off, Should have dried out by the weekend so will have a few nicks of under coats on the plaster.

i`ll add more pics to this thread as i progress :thumbs:


thanks for looking
 
Looks great - you should fit a slide for when you want to come down, which slides you into a seat at the kitchen table!!

"Dinners ready" - "OK" wheeeeeeeeeee
 
Excellent.

It's amazing how much bigger it looks once it's dry lined.

I think you should re-consider the staircase. I converted my loft a few years ago to use as a darkroom. It's o.k. but as I have to get out the ladder and then pull it up to close the hatch to use it, I find I don't go in there as much as I would like.

Luckily, my son has moved out of the small bedroom upstairs into a spare room downstairs so I now have a room off of the landing with a proper door on it so I can go in and out of my darkroom as I please. It will not have as much space as my loft darkroom as I will have to share it with some other stuff but a simple worktop along one wall will be so much more convenient than what I have at the moment.


Steve.
 
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ianmarsh said:
A mate had a ropeladder for going up to his loft and a fireman's pole for coming down.
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Oh i like the sound of that! lol

Steve Smith said:
Excellent.

It's amazing how much bigger it looks once it's dry lined.

I think you should re-consider the staircase. I converted my loft a few years ago to use as a darkroom. It's o.k. but as I have to get out the ladder and then pull it up to close the hatch to use it, I find I don't go in there as much as I would like.

Luckily, my son has moved out of the small bedroom upstairs into a spare room downstairs so I now have a room off of the landing with a proper door on it so I can go in and out of my darkroom as I please. It will not have as much space as my loft darkroom as I will have to share it with some other stuff but a simple worktop along one wall will be so much more convenient than what I have at the moment.


Steve.
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My budget has been tight and i`ve already overspent :( seriously would love to have a staircase but its just not going to happen......for now.


Plasterers back tomorrow hopfully to finish off, so i`m hoping its dry by the weekend so i can get some base coats done:)
 
very nice , and the best sort of loft to do it in , a purlined one that is :clap:
 
This looks great. We're seriously short of space and I wish we could do something like this but it's just not practical. The roof pitch is fairly low, and the only place I can stand upright (I'm about 5'10") in the loft is right on the centreline.

My brother in law has done several house extensions and refurbishments by himself, with friends in the building trades, and he reckons it would be cheaper to move to a larger house. Property isn't terribly expensive here - rural SW Scotland - but I like it where we are. Oh, well.
 
Steve Smith said:
That's why you have no money left for a staircase. You're paying people to do things which you could teach yourself to do!



Steve.
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Steve,
besides the plaster work + the window everything done in that loft has been by myself, I did however have an attempt at plastering the chimney which was ok if im honest (plasterer said is was v good for first go) but there is just a vast area and doing the chimney took me about 2 hours!! lol
 
Actually, I'm hopeless at plastering. I know how to do it but I can't do it very well!


Steve.
 
Looking good :)

Where are you putting all your "loft junk"
 
Wayno said:
Steve,
besides the plaster work + the window everything done in that loft has been by myself, I did however have an attempt at plastering the chimney which was ok if im honest (plasterer said is was v good for first go) but there is just a vast area and doing the chimney took me about 2 hours!! lol
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lol plastering is the only diy thats massively beyond me, still prefer to pay people (but not at the expense of parts or camera toys so will never happen) but plastering is whooooosh over my head, as is proper woodwork everything I've made is functional instead of pretty
 
Fantastic job! You'd never get me outa there - just pull up the ladder and go deaf! :D
 
Nice job since the last update....

One day... I will be having the same joy as you :D
 
I keep getting the idea to do our loft space, the floor is already boarded but its only 2x4 which is not acceptable any more so would need sorting and it makes the what could be a batton and plasterboard the walls job it so somthing a whole lot bigger so I keep leaveing it.
 
Looks a great space.

I use a woodwork forum and they get quite worked up about the correct way to do things like roofing. I don't know the rights and wrongs myself but I assume you have allowed for vapour barriers, ventilation and all that sort of stuff now you have enclosed the loft space? I take it this new room is unheated as you put insulation in the floor?
 
RobertP said:
Looks a great space.

I use a woodwork forum and they get quite worked up about the correct way to do things like roofing. I don't know the rights and wrongs myself but I assume you have allowed for vapour barriers, ventilation and all that sort of stuff now you have enclosed the loft space? I take it this new room is unheated as you put insulation in the floor?
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Yeah i read up quite abit about all that stuff. I`ve used kingspan between the rafters and in the wall linings also allowing air circualtion.
Correct the loft is unheated and i`m very very happy at how warm it is :)


UPDATE!

TAAA DAAA

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Not long now till i`m done, Just make side doors, Remove all tools, Tidy and Carpet!
 
Fantastic conversion... how did you manage to get the sheets of plaster board and the long beams up into the loft ... just being a nosey git :D
 
moving into a house in feb and there is potential for a loft conversion
frankly that looks amazing
well done mate
very nice use of the space...
 
mxfun said:
Fantastic conversion... how did you manage to get the sheets of plaster board and the long beams up into the loft ... just being a nosey git :D
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I just about managed the beams think they were 9ft lengths, as for the plaster board i just used a size that fit perfectly through the hatch.

DizMatt said:
moving into a house in feb and there is potential for a loft conversion
frankly that looks amazing
well done mate
very nice use of the space...
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Thanks.



Well i`ve made the two hatch doors, Just need to fit them which is proving to be a pain :gag:
Speaker teminals fitted and working :cool:
All my crap (as the other half says) is now up there.
Carpet picked and should be fitted by week end.
 
er....very little of this appears to comply with building regs! What happens if a fire happens downstairs whilst watching a movie? - form an orderly queue to go down the ladder? assuming the overspanned floor joists don't collapse
1st! Neat Job - Structurally unsound & Unsafe though!

Structural Engineer with 20 years!
 
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