Loft ConversionOxfordshire · 2024

Dormer Loft Conversion

A full rear-dormer loft conversion on a 1930s semi — strip-out, steels, new floor, and a full-width timber dormer framed up and sheathed ready for cladding.

/Roof strip-out and chimney breast cut-back
/Structural steels and new floor joists
/Full-width rear dormer — timber frame
/Breathable sheathing and warm-roof build-up
/Scaffold and weather protection throughout

/ The job

How it came together.

The brief was to turn an unused loft into a proper master bedroom with an en-suite, using a full-width rear dormer to maximise head height and floor area.

We stripped the rear slope back to the rafters, cut the redundant chimney breast back to ceiling level on a gallows bracket, and dropped in the new structural steels to carry the loft floor.

From there we laid the new floor joists, framed up the full-width dormer in C24 timber, and sheathed the outside in breathable board ready for the EPDM roof and zinc-effect cladding.

Scaffold and a temporary tin-hat roof kept the house watertight throughout — the family stayed in residence with no exposure to the weather.

/ Build sequence

From dig to dry.

Inside the loft after strip-out, exposed chimney stack and new floor joists going in — 01 — Strip-out, chimney cut-back, new floor joists

Full-width rear dormer framed up and sheathed, viewed from the garden — 02 — Full-width rear dormer framed and sheathed

Inside the new dormer looking out, showing stud walls and ceiling joists — 03 — Inside the dormer, studs and ceiling joists in

Dormer Loft Conversion

How it came together.

From dig to dry.

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