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Loft Conversions: Planning, Managing and Completing Your Conversion

Loft Conversions: Planning, Managing and Completing Your Conversion
By Laurie Williamson

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Written by an experienced freelance estimator, "Loft Conversions" describes good practice in the building trade as it applies to home owners when tendering and managing projects undertaken by building firms and contractors.

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  • Amazon Sales Rank: #152621 in Books
  • Published on: 2000-12-22
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 144 pages

Editorial Reviews

Build It Magazine, February 2001.
Anyone seeking advice about converting their roof space will find Loft Conversions a good starting point.

From the Author
Loft Conversions is a step-by-step fully illustrated guide (approx 300 illustrations) written to assist both the competent and less experienced DIY enthusiast manage their project successfully. From initial plans through to completion this book will prove an invaluable guide to good building practice and help to avoid the pitfalls that lie in wait for the unprepared and unsuspecting.
It is not however designed to solve problems where height, in particular, is at a premium, the variables would be too many for one book. In these instances it is always advisable to seek advice from your Local Authority Building Control Department before making plans.

Customer Reviews

No help to the DIYer1
This book may help you if you plan to have your conversion professionally installed. If you want to have a go yourself then it is of little (if any) value.... VERY DISAPOINTING !

Back to basics1
If your thinking of doing a DIY loft conversion then you`ll need to look further a field. This read is back to basics, what is a joist, what is a roof. It has very little useful information. Lets face it if your going to attempt a loft conversion, you`d know what a joist is! I was expecting guides on altering purlins etc...this just disappoints.

BASIC2
IF YOU KNOW ABSOLUTELY NOTHING CONCERNED WITH LOFT CONVERSIONS THEN THIS BOOK WOULD BE A GOOD OVERVIEW OF THE WHOLE PROCEDURE.
HOWEVER IF YOU ARE AN EXPERIENCED DIY'ER OR A BUILDER THE BOOK OFFERS NO PRACTICAL HELP WITH THE TECHNICAL SIDE OF CONVERTING A LOFT.
I ALSO NOTICED IT MADE NO REFERENCES TO SPACESAVER STAIRCASES WHICH COMPLY WITH BUILDING REGULATIONS AND ARE BECOMING EVER MORE POPULAR.