Probably a stupid question, before I start wasting people’s time in the real world. 🙂

My house has a funny valley roof, which seems to make having a full-on loft conversion pretty challenging as it would involve completely re-modelling the roof.

I quite fancy taking away the flat ceiling in the master bedroom, creating a very high ceiling following the internal line of the roof with velux windows in the roof and (potentially) a mezzanine platform.

Is that the sort of thing I need to be chatting to an architect about, or is that going to be beneath their interest but within the capabilities of a decent builder to design?

Plus any recommendations for Bristol architects appreciated if applicable.

Many thanks

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Structural engineer (if you’re messing with joists) + builder, I’d have said.

Engineer or Building Surveyor to design + builder.

Jeff

Pop up into the loft and have a look at the timbers. If its a forest of sloping bits of timber then you probably have a trussed rafter roof which makes a loft conversion very difficult, expensive, impossible etc. If you have wide open spaces up there then it should be fairly straightforward. You may need to look at planning permission and you’ll certainly need structural input to keep building control happy (as well as complying with fire safety regulations and all the other parts of the Building Regs)

An architect could do it (and it doesn’t sound too small a job) but if you’re making structural changes you’re going to also need an engineer at some point to provide calcs for building regs. You may also need planning permission depending on the extent of the work/your location etc.

Thanks all.

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Give C+A Johnson a ring – they specialise in design and build loft conversions all over Bristol. They have a tame structural engineer, and can bring in an architect if necessary. Try and get Alan to come round and have a look in the first instance – knows his stuff.

Now for once that will need building control and planning if you’re changing the actual roof pitches.