A hip to gable loft conversion is often a popular choice for semi detached or end of terrace properties that have a hipped roof.
End of terrace attic conversion.
Hip to gable loft conversions.
In this blog post we re gonna cover the top 5 mistakes made when building a terraced house loft conversion that we have come across over the last 20 years or so.
The work involves extending the side roof which is hipped and turning it into a vertical wall making it a gabled roof.
The ridge is extended to meet the gable end and the loft room is built inside the newly created space.
This type of loft conversion is most often carried out on 1930s semi detached and end of terrace homes.
Because of this it can be a challenge to get the conversion fully extended particularly if you have an hip end roof to the side which slopes in to extend the the 40 cubic metres allowance is stretched to it s limit.
Hip to gable loft conversions transform sloping hipped roofs into gabled roofs allowing a loft conversion to be built with good headroom.
The end of terrace conversion has 40 cubic metres to work with rather than the 50 cubic meters available to the semi detached property.
Building a terraced house loft conversion can be a pain due to a few very specific issues to that type of property.
Every loft conversion is different and incorporating the dual design of a roof terrace can add considerations of the permission and planning kinds.
This loft conversion is done to a semi detached house.