We are in the process of selling our house and the buyers solicitor raised some queries about some work we had done to the house when we bought it 7 years ago.
The works involved removing the UPVC doors between the kitchen and conservatory, making the opening a bit wider (1.92m wide) and installing steel to support the remainder of the back wall of the house. We also have the polycarbonate roof on the conservatory replaced with lights weight synthetic tiles together with insulation and plasterboard.
The bit that has cropped up is that we didn’t get building regs approval for the steel supporting the back wall so the buyers solicitors have asked for a regularisation certificate.
The issue is, having spoken to our councils building control dept, as we have also replaced the roof on the conservatory, the conservatory will now need to conform to building regs entirely so they have said they will need to:
1) Check the foundations of the conservatory to ensure they can adequately support the new (7 year old) roof.
2) We need to provide thermal calculations for both the kitchen and the conservatory.
3. We need to install a new fire alarm system with a linked heat detector in the kitchen.
4. Check the steel of the opening to make sure it’s adequate.
What I’d like to know is, can I reasonably request from the council for building regs just to inspect the opening and not the conservatory?
If not, how do I go about getting thermal calculations for the kitchen and conservatory and how do I know what’s good and what’s bad?
Kinda feel like we are opening a can of worms here but I suspect any future sale is going to be problematic unless we get this sorted.
The works involved removing the UPVC doors between the kitchen and conservatory, making the opening a bit wider (1.92m wide) and installing steel to support the remainder of the back wall of the house. We also have the polycarbonate roof on the conservatory replaced with lights weight synthetic tiles together with insulation and plasterboard.
The bit that has cropped up is that we didn’t get building regs approval for the steel supporting the back wall so the buyers solicitors have asked for a regularisation certificate.
The issue is, having spoken to our councils building control dept, as we have also replaced the roof on the conservatory, the conservatory will now need to conform to building regs entirely so they have said they will need to:
1) Check the foundations of the conservatory to ensure they can adequately support the new (7 year old) roof.
2) We need to provide thermal calculations for both the kitchen and the conservatory.
3. We need to install a new fire alarm system with a linked heat detector in the kitchen.
4. Check the steel of the opening to make sure it’s adequate.
What I’d like to know is, can I reasonably request from the council for building regs just to inspect the opening and not the conservatory?
If not, how do I go about getting thermal calculations for the kitchen and conservatory and how do I know what’s good and what’s bad?
Kinda feel like we are opening a can of worms here but I suspect any future sale is going to be problematic unless we get this sorted.