House Extensions, Attic & Garage Conversions in Dún Laoghaire.

Dún Laoghaire · The area

Why house extensions and attic conversions in Dún Laoghaire are a familiar brief.

Dún Laoghaire's Victorian and Edwardian period stock has constrained extension scope shaped by the heavy planning context (significant ACAs, protected structures common, particularly around the seafront and Sandycove). The classic D-L extension brief is a careful single-storey rear extension under the 40 sqm threshold, detailed so it reads against the original period rear elevation and respects the streetscape from above. Side returns feature where plot geometry allows. Original 9-inch solid brick rear walls need engineer-signed structural opening for any wide steel; the work is more involved than a cavity-construction equivalent. Attic conversions feature on the larger period stock where the roof pitch supports it, often involving a rear dormer rather than a side-rooflight scheme. Modern apartments and townhouses by the East Pier carry simpler extension scope but rarely come up for extension work.

House Extensions, Attic & Garage Conversions · How we run it

House Extensions, Attic & Garage Conversions in Dún Laoghaire, the way it should be done.

Extensions are where most clients first speak to us. The reasons vary — a growing family, an attic that has become storage by default rather than design, a 1970s side return that is too cold to use — but the question is always the same: how do we add space to a house that is otherwise lovely, and have it feel like it was always there?

We run extensions end to end. Where you have an architect, we build to their drawings and become the single point of accountability through planning, structural design and construction. Where you do not, we coordinate the architect and engineer ourselves and quote the build to a clear specification before work starts.

Attic conversions are one of our most common projects — adding a bedroom with ensuite to an Irish three-bed semi is one of the highest-value moves a client can make, and it is squarely within our scope. Garage conversions follow the same pattern: insulation, blockwork, plastering, electrics, plumbing and joinery, all run by one team.

The work in Dún Laoghaire runs to the same specification we apply everywhere across Dublin and Leinster. Materials, sub-trade coordination, planning context and final certification are all managed from one studio. If your project is on the dublin side of the city, expect site visits within the working week and same-day responses on WhatsApp.