A. Swales Joinery

15/08/2025

Our parent company specialise in loft conversions and home alterations. A great service with the high quality internal joinery and fitting you'd like to expect with 25 years experience.

If you are looking for more space in your home a loft conversion is a great way to add extra room without losing garden space. We are currently taking bookings for Autumn/Winter next year.

Contact us to see how we can help make your home a better fit.

26/07/2025

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06/02/2024

06/02/2024

18/02/2022

We are building a detached garage for a customer at the moment and this is the view of the twin dormers we built last year for two of their neighbours!

01/09/2021

Thankyou to everyone who follows our page. As our company evolved we ended up doing more larger construction work, especially loft Conversions and house alterations. To better reflect this we rebranded ourselves to Swales Construction.

We still offer the same great workmanship as before but take on full projects rather than just the Joinery and Kitchens. You also get the added bonus that all internal works are completed to a very high standard. We would love for you to join our new page and as always contact us for free advice and quotations.

Still improving people's properties in the Harrogate and district area!

12/10/2017

Choosing to have a loft conversion can be a big decision. It requires investment of time and finances which are not always available. Utilising the space in your roof though can often be essential to free up storage space in rooms and garages.
For one of our customers in Harrogate we came to a solution when space for heavier items was needed in the roof space.
The house was an older property with large ceilings in all rooms upstairs. The ceiling timbers were not suitable for our usual loft access application so a more structural approach was needed.
The customer had already looked into a loft conversion but decided to prioritise renovations to the rest of the property so we decided to install floor joists up to building regs for a habitable room which could be classed as the first stage of their future loft conversion. This would allow for any amount of storage up until the future conversion goes ahead.
Provisions for electric and plumbing were left so the floor could be put down permanently and floor joists were trimmed out to suit their future staircase.

This could be a good option for people who either need storage space straight away, or want to go ahead with a loft conversion but Can't afford to do the complete job in one go.

If you are looking at a loft conversion or storage solution for your roof space feel free to contact us with the details available on this page.

20/02/2017

Loft access package in a trussed roof construction.
-Ladder
-lights
-strengthening of ceiling structure
-insulate
-chip board flooring

15/02/2017

We fitted one of our loft access packages for customers in Harrogate last week. 2 days work and added 24 square meters of easily accessible storage space to their home. That's a lot of boxes! Luckily we've strengthened the whole structure so storage weight is not a problem.
If you are interested in better use of your roof space contact us for free advice from a full conversion to safe easy access storage.

02/09/2016

As well as offering a full loft conversion service there is the option of a "loft access" package.

Many people store items in their loft and this can cause a few problems as the ceiling joists are only really designed to take the weight of the ceiling structure over a long period of time. Storing items in the loft can lead to the ceilings sagging in the rooms below if not done in the correct manner. Plus of course most people have at some point heard a foot/body part through the ceiling story.
One way to solve this is to correctly floor the structure in the opposite direction of the joists allowing the weight to be supported and spread across the whole ceiling. We counter batten the space with minimum 3x2 timbers to allow enough space to correctly insulate the whole ceiling space because squashed rock wool doesn't work properly, and will push down on the plaster surface below.

We then floor the new structure with 18mm chipboard flooring meaning you could probably throw a dance party up there without causing any problems below.

We put a propper light up there! With a light switch right next to the loft hatch so you never have to stumble around in the dark again.
We add a high quality wooden ladder with a large opening and weighted for easy opening and shutting. This means accessing the loft space is now a 30 second event and completely safe to do.

This job usually takes 1 day and will leave you with a large, easily accessed storage room. An average cost for a 3x3m floor area would be around £500 including materials for floor, ladder, light fitting.