The room furthest away
The loft is an office now. The router did not move with you.
An attic conversion is often where you need the steadiest connection, and it's the room wifi finds hardest to reach: two floors and a staircase away from wherever the router lives.
Where to start
Is it the loft, or the line?
Height makes wifi worse, but it isn't always the whole story.
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Every room is slow, including the one with the router.
That's a broadband fault. Your provider needs to look at the line before anything else.
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One laptop struggles up there while your phone copes.
Check that laptop: its wifi card, and any dock or adapter it relies on.
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Everything's fine downstairs and patchy under the roof.
Two floors of brick and timber are in the way. A cable up the outside wall goes round them.
What we fix
Worth checking: stream a video on the landing below the loft, then carry on at your desk. If quality drops as you climb, distance is the problem.
The job we do
Up the outside wall, into the loft.
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Free survey
We check the outside route up to the loft, including how ladders can safely reach it.
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A fixed price in writing
Height changes the job, so the figure reflects it. You see it before we start.
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One day, most of the time
The cable climbs the gable and passes through a small sealed hole to a socket near your desk.
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Tested under the roof
We prove the connection works at your loft desk before packing the ladders away.
From our first install, in Levenshulme
Loft jobs need safe ladder access to the outside wall. If that isn't possible at your house, the survey will say so and it costs you nothing.
Does your house fit?
Loft offices need a clear outside wall.
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Semi-detached
Usually straightforward
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Detached
Usually straightforward
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End terrace with side access
Often straightforward
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Mid terrace
Front rooms only
A gable end or side wall is ideal. Tell us what's there and we'll say whether it can work.
Show us where the router is and where the loft is.
We'll check the climb, the access and the route, then put a fixed figure in writing. Loft rooms start from £450; height can add to that, and you'll know before you agree.