Worked on a loft conversion.
What are you converting to a loft? There are a lot of old warehouses around here that are converted to loft condos. They are so cool, with the original brick and concrete. You can really feel the history.
I'm improving the loft of my 2-story semi-detached home to make it more pleasant and to give it more usable space. One of the previous owners of this house had floored most of it and created a room in the central portion, but there was a lot of wasted space in the eaves where it was variously unfloored, filled up with unused pipes and water tanks or only reachable by crawling on hands and knees for up to 10 metres. The central room had been walled with low-density fibreboard, which was in a fairly sad state, and I've removed that. I've also removed the water pipes and tanks, including some old lead pipes from when the house was first built, which has opened up a lot of space. The lead pipes are interesting; they're really, really thick and heavy, but I can easily bend them with my hands and even roll them into a coil.
I'm going to put in new light fittings and wiring to replace the hodge-podge that's currently in place, lay down insulation and flooring where there isn't any, build shelving to take advantage of as much space as possible and to make it easy to access stored items and fill up a ragged gap that was left between the roof and the shared wall when the chimney was removed at some point in the past.
