Minimum Roof Height For Loft Conversion

The minimum head height for a loft conversion is around 2 3 to 2 4 metres.

Minimum roof height for loft conversion.

No matter how creative or unique you wish to be with your tiny house you are required to allocate a minimum level of 6 8 for your ceilings. You need to have enough room to stand up and move around. If you can stand up in your loft you are doing well. In most cases you would want to allocate a few more inches as well giving room for any lighting beams and other obstructions on the ceiling.

The ideal scenario is if you can stand upright in the centre of your loft and raise your arm above your head without crunching your hand on the inside of the roof. Don t be shy measure the height with a tape measure. The ridge is the centre point of your roof this will be where you measure from and down to your feet. Otherwise there is little point in converting the space at all.

Where a property already has a steep pitched roof the eventual loft conversion will be much easier and ideally you are looking for headroom in the loft of around 2 2 to 2 6 meters. Take a tape measure and run it from the floor to the ceiling at the tallest part of the room. This will make best use of the available height above the staircase. If it s 2 2m or more your loft should be tall enough to convert.

Adding a staircase to a loft conversion the ideal location for a staircase to land is in line with the roof ridge. The minimum height requirement above the pitch line is 2m although this could be reduced to 1 9m in the centre and 1 8m to the side of a stair. The minimum height you need for a loft conversion is 2 2m and you can easily measure this yourself. Of course it is entirely up to you.

In relation to ceiling height 2 2 metres across the central part of the room is preferable in bedrooms and living room conversions while a minimum of 1 8 metres usually 2 metres from floor to ceiling is required by law at the top of the staircase. If the roof space is less than 2 3m don t throw away your dreams of a conversion as there are other options available. But building regulations use this figure as a recommendation when the room will be habitable.