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Loft Conversions
In Thurrock, Essex.
Atkins Custom Builds delivers extensions, loft conversions, and garden rooms built for your home. We design with purpose and build with accuracy.
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Quality loft conversions in Thurrock, Essex.
Atkins Custom Builds delivers extensions, loft conversions, and garden rooms with structured planning. Our team focuses on clear design, strong structure, and reliable communication throughout each stage. We assess your property and prepare drawings, specifications, and schedules that guide the entire process. You receive direct information about timelines, costs, and requirements for smooth progress. We coordinate structural details, building control needs, and practical layout decisions for your space. Each project follows organised steps that protect quality and support predictable outcomes. Our builders complete work with steady attention to detail and consistent standards. You gain new space designed for daily use and lasting added value.
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Types of Loft Conversions In Thurrock, Essex
A dormer loft conversion involves extending the current roof structure so that it rises vertically from the sloping roof, increasing usable floor area and ceiling height inside the home. Inside, a dormer features straight walls and a flat ceiling. This is the most popular style of loft conversion, as flat-roof dormers typically create the greatest amount of extra living space.
Full Rear Dormer
Pitched roof dormer conversions are particularly well suited to properties with large roof areas or steep roof pitches. In some cases, especially within conservation areas, they may be required instead of a full rear dormer. A pitched roof dormer can enhance the character of a property and, depending on the design, multiple pitched dormers may be incorporated. Dormers added to the front of a house will require planning permission, while rear dormers can often be constructed under permitted development rights.
Pitched Roof Dormer
Velux loft conversions, often referred to as rooflight conversions, take their name from Velux, the industry’s leading roof window manufacturer.
This type of conversion does not change the external shape of the roof, as the roof windows are installed flush with the existing roof slope. Velux loft conversions are ideal for properties that already have sufficient head height in the loft or where planning restrictions limit structural alterations.
Velux Conversion
A mansard loft conversion, named after the 17th-century French architect François Mansard, is typically constructed at the rear of a property. It features a flat roof and a rear wall that slopes inward at an angle of around 72 degrees. Windows are usually set within smaller dormer structures. Because this type of conversion significantly alters the roof’s shape and structure, planning permission is usually required.
Mansard
A hip-to-gable loft conversion significantly increases both head height and usable floor area within a loft. This process involves removing the sloping hip end of the roof, extending the side wall upward to form a vertical gable, and lengthening the roof ridge to connect with the new gable end. As part of the works, sections of the front roof also need to be rebuilt.
Hip To Gable
The L-shaped dormer loft conversion is another highly popular option and is often regarded as the most effective way to maximise space in a mid-terrace period property. Choosing an L-shaped design typically allows enough room to comfortably create two bedrooms along with a bathroom or en-suite.
L-shaped Dormer
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Housing In Thurrock, Essex.
Thurrock is a diverse borough in Essex, positioned on the edge of Greater London. The area has a rich historical and archaeological heritage, with important prehistoric finds discovered across the borough. Housing in Thurrock includes a wide range of property types, from bungalows and terraced homes to semi-detached and detached houses, many of which are well suited to loft conversions.
If you’re unsure whether your loft can be converted, or which type of loft conversion would be best for your property, please get in touch to discuss your options.
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