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(Req) Attic conversion in Meath - advice wanted

  • 07-04-2008 9:53am
    #1
    hamiltron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭


    Hi all,

    We are thinking of getting our attic converted and I have been browsing various forums and talking to people about what we should do. I am starting to get in touch with various vendors for quotes and am wondering if any of you could recommend people that do work in Navan?

    Ideally, we would like to get planning permission and convert it into proper habitable space, but if it adds too much to the cost, we may simply go for the old storage space type conversion.

    So any advice on builders and also any advice on architects/surveyors would be appreciated.

    Dave


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  • #2
    sinnerboy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,433 ✭✭✭sinnerboy


    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055207785


  • #3
    hamiltron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86 ✭✭hamiltron


    Thanks Sinnerboy - a good thrashing out of the "material change of use" debate (and I love a good robust debate among people well versed in a given field:)).

    However, my main hope here was to get recommendations for builders to carry out the job and for architects to do the plans and survey the work. However, I guess that the majority of the readership of this forum is involved in the trade and would not like to show bias...

    One new question I have is whether a conversion of an attic in a house with a truss roof would, by proper architectural standards, have to have the whole roof stripped away - as in remove the tiles and start from scratch? One architect I spoke to today (one of the most reputable in the town), said that that would be the case. It seems a bit excessive to me, but he seemed quite adamant on the point.

    Hamiltron


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