Loft Conversion Steal Work?

Question

I have two questions really,
One does every loft conversion require steal work in place?
Two how much would you expect to pay for a loft conversion ?

Answer 1

1.does the architect have steels specced on the drawing.

2.how bigs the loft.10-15 thou for the average(dormers or veluxes?)

Answer 2

Loft Conversion Steel Beams

Answer 3

If you need steel or not really depends on how many internal load bearing walls are in your house and where they are. If you don't have load bearing walls where you need them, it's more than likely you'll need to run bigger bearers that will take your deep floor joist. This will leave you hardly any head room in your roof space and probably not work.



Because most Loft Conversion aren't as big as the floor plan of the building, the bearers for the floor joist of the conversion don't really need to be 10" or 12" x 4" timber, but if you don't have a load bearing walls in the right places they will need to be that size and when you put floor joist of 8" x 2" on top of them, you end up with no head room. That's when you need steel beams, to cut that 10" or 12" to a 5" or so high of steel beam, or in other words if the span between load bearing walls is to great you'll need steel because the timber bearers would be to wide/high, I hope you understand.



Dude your second question can't be answered with out much more info, will you be having dormer windows, what kind of finish you after (High end, average or basic) and alike. It could easily run $100,000++ or an average smallish conversion $40000ish give or take.

Answer 4

not every time do you need steels ..iv done many loft conversion ..majority have had steels ..basicly most ceiling joist run from front to back of a house ..these are too small to make a floor ...to get new joist along side you would need to remove all insulation ..alter most electric cables in loft and any plumbing pipes ...and you still need a load bearing wall in middle of house ..then you might get away with 8x2 joist ..so the new floor may only be 4 or 5" above existing joist ...the steels go the other way...from gable end to gable end or central wall if a semi ..these would fit above ceiling joist and the joist would sit in web of girder ...work it right and your vertical walls can come off top of steels ...you will an escape window ..as well as a proper fire proofed stairs ..as for cost ..every one is different ..but will be nearer to 25 than £15000

Answer 5

No but the floor you have in your loft is only designed to carry the weight of the ceiling below . You could run a heavier timber along side the rafters instead of using steal . floor joists are at least twice the size of the ceiling rafters you walk on in the loft .



Price depends entirely on how long the job will take making the floor strong enough to meet regs is the only real consideration and of course access is sometimes difficult .

Answer 6

boy boy >>basicly most ceiling joist run from front to back of a house << are you for real? Only a person who know very little about building and roof construction would write this. Most ceiling joist run the in the same direction as the rafters or the gable, which would be left to right across the front of the house, very very few houses are built with the joist running front to back.