What Type Of Roof Do I have

[DeludedAussie]

I often here that hip roofs are the hardest to convert to lofts - I am wondering what sort of roof I have.

In my loft I have a water tank and a lot of trusses which I presumably will need to replace with steel beams?

Does anyone know a company in London that would do just the structural piece for me and leave me to do the remaining pieces?

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

 

[DeludedAussie]

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[tony1851]

If you have a hipped roof AND it's trusses, then it's hard to convert to a loft though not impossible.
You could extend the ridge out in line with the side wall to make it a hip-to-gable conversion. This is allowed if your permitted development rights have not been removed.
However it's done, you will need a few steel beams.

 

[DeludedAussie]

If you have a hipped roof AND it's trusses, then it's hard to convert to a loft though not impossible.
You could extend the ridge out in line with the side wall to make it a hip-to-gable conversion. This is allowed if your permitted development rights have not been removed.
However it's done, you will need a few steel beams.

The problem is I do not know if I have a hipped roof - I have shown a picture of the house above - Is this a hipped or gable roof?

The roof space is massive and quite easily converted to a loft I would have thought

 

[tony1851]

Is this a hipped or gable roof?

That is a hipped roof.

 

[^woody^]

It's a hipped roof, and you wont have trusses - it will be a cut rafter roof

As it is detached, even a dormer wont help much to make a viable loft conversion, and so you may need it converting to gables at each side, and a rear dormer