Does a loft conversion add value to your home?
Everybody thinks that by adding any sort of space to your home - it will add value. Well sorry to disappoint, but that’s not always the case.
Done well, loft conversions can yield vast amounts of space and add value to boot. Done badly, they can cost serious money and add negligible if any value.
Here are some things to bear in mind:
1. Make sure you allow enough clearance for proper head room.
2. Ensure that you have proper insulation retained and also proper ventilation.
3. Getting sufficient light into an attic room is very important. Make sure you get plenty of sky lights in.
4. Ask yourself the question - am I going to get enough useable space to make this worthwhile. If all your doing is creating glorified storage space forget about it and find some where else to put your hard earned money….
READER COMMENTS:
Yes, very good points. I’ve seen a loft conversion where they loft half of an existing bedroom for the stairs and the loft room had too little headroom and only one velux. In short it was dreadfull, the build quality was very poor and I reckon it detracted value from the house. However, if done properly they can create a great room and add value equal to the cost of the work. Sometimes going for cheap is a false ecomony. As a personal interest I run a website about loft conversions, please feel to take a look at it aboutloftconversions.co.uk - I built the site becuase I found there wasn’t much info about conversions on the web, it’s a work in progress and I’m adding new stuff all the time.
Posted by John on Wed 20th August 2008 at 11:44 AM | #