Loft conversion company - any recommendations or warnings?

[sdonald]

We really need some advice please from people who have been through the loft conversion process as we are struggling to find a company we can afford to start the work.

Has anyone used Taylored Lofts for their loft conversion and if so what was your experience?

Any other loft companies you would recommend using or avoiding?

Thank you!

[DirtyBox]

We used Taylored Lofts last year and I thought they were great. Job was on time and on budget (we had our second child coming so we couldn't afford for it to over-run).

We had a few issues that became apparent afterwards but they came back and sorted them out no problem and our new bedroom and bathroom are now the nicest rooms in the house.

If I had another loft that needed converting, I would use them again.

We also had quotes from Loft Life, Landmark Lofts, Armadillo Lofts, Absolute Lofts, and another couple that I can't remember the name of, when I looked for reviews there were quite a few negative ones for the rest but I couldn't find a single bad one for Taylored, plus I found someone who had used them before and was willing to answer my questions about them which sealed the deal for me.

Good luck, it's a minefield!

[Monkey]

I have pm'd you re: experience of Classic Lofts. Poor -- and I am being polite.

[Sue Hollands]

Ive just had my loft conversion built by Benchmark Lofts (020 7438 2043) after getting a couple of great referrals from 2 close friends of mine who recently had their lofts converted in Earlsfield last year. Thomas is the guy who runs the company, he is very helpful and straight foward to deal with. Their prices were competitive and the onsite team were very clean, polite and completed our loft 2 weeks earlier than expected! Thomas took care of the drawings and planning permissions from the deposit we transferred once we signed contracts. Im really happy with the finish and would highly recommend getting in touch with them.

[Maribelle]

My neighbour recently had their loft converted by Landmark Lofts, I had a look around as I'm thinking of getting mine done too. It looked pretty good and they seemed very happy with the end result. I'm still going to look at a couple of other companies for comparison but based on my neighbour's experience & the end result I'm swinging towards Landmark.

[edbloke]

AVOID www.loftlife.net

Not good at finishing a job or coming back and sorting out issues which arise when 'complete', despite the guarantee.

[stevie23b]

You will get what you pay for 99% of the time. Lofts are priced to the screw nail so if there are 'extras' be prepaired to pay for them.

[CocoC]

Ours has just been finished (tiny bit of snagging left) and in contrast to monkey our experience with Classic Lofts was pretty good. Good luck with it :)

[bobby's bear]

We had our loft done by Classic last October and we were very happy with them, they finished ahead of time and were very good about sorting out the snagging. We also had a small issue which needed resolving this year (long after we'd paid the final balnace) which they came and fixed without me having to hassle them.

Friends of ours have had a bad experince with Landmark so I would avoid them.

[Waffo]

We're about to use benchmark who are mention above. Thomas is great and his work looks very good too!

[Maribelle]

Update - We've decided to go with Landmark for our conversion after all. They're not the cheapest but I'm of a mind to pay a little extra to get what we want.

Will keep you updated on how it turns out - fingers crossed (not looking forward to the dust!)

[Redpea]

Hi Waffo,

How are you getting on with Benchmark? Thinking of getting them in to quote for our loft too!

Thanks

RP