Turn your unused roof space into the best room in the house.

A complete conversion — whether dormer, mansard, rooflight or hip-to-gable — converts dead roof space into a genuine bedroom, home office or family room, complete with a code-compliant staircase and building control approval. Because much of Camden Town sits within a conservation area, the design also has to hold up to planning scrutiny on how it reads from street level, so we build that consideration into the earliest sketches rather than reworking a rejected application later.

Whether a dormer's added headroom suits you better, or a rooflight's smaller footprint within the existing roofline is the smarter route, comes down to your current ceiling height, the pitch of the roof, and how noticeable the alteration will be from the street. We weigh both against your actual roof — and against conservation area rules for your street where they apply — before making a recommendation.

Leaks, damp staining, decaying timber and half-finished jobs left by an earlier contractor are common across Camden's older housing, where roofs are often altered more than once over their lifetime. We track down where the problem actually starts — which can be several timbers away from the damp patch on the ceiling — instead of just patching the visible mark.

Insulation that's been squashed flat or badly installed is one of the most frequent — and most correctable — reasons a period Camden home still feels cold even though insulation is technically in place. We bring it up to current standards while preserving safe loft access and usable storage, fitting raised boarding so anything stored up there doesn't compress the insulation beneath it.