Please help - Loft Conversion

[ziggy1979]

Who would you recommend for something like this ... an architect, a SE or are there any other professionals who could calculate loads, etc.?

Also, what are the likely costs of the different professionals, e.g. i would expect an architect to be more expensive than a SE?

Thanks

 

[Shytalkz]

Architects design the building; SEs make it stand up for them.

::Fans the flames::
Building surveyors do...well, no one really knows . The odd architect can do the odd simple calculation, but generally, if it's not in a trade catalogue, they're stumped. Building surveyors are a bit better than that, but not much, most of them skipped their structures lessons as they found it boring/too hard/the student bar to be more appealing.

SE is your best bet, no they're not particularly cheap. But, as there are "plan drawers", so there are "beam calculators"; you pays your money, you takes your choice.

 

[^woody^]

< casually walks past oblivious with ipod blaring and looking the other way >

Oh, what the hell .....