hahaha. So let me try to explain. Its an old terraced house with a ton of weird DIY jobs done on it - (9ft x 6ft opening from bedroom wall to the landing for example) It had a tiny kitchen as on outrigger and then an extension built on to square off the back of the house. As i say the extension is about 10ft x 8 and open to what was the dining room and with the old external door from the kitchen removed and another hatch cut into that same wall of about 4ft x 3ft. So to all intents and purposes it was one room. For some reason, the floor heights of both the extension and the kitchen were raised by 8 inches so there was a step up from the dining room into the extension. The roof was leaking and turned out be a bunch scraps of OSB screwed on top of the older roof and topped with visqueen and roofing felt.
All in all a dangerous, damp mess.
I stripped everything out with a view to putting in steel, putting in a glass roof on the extension (its not really overlooked much other than by 88 year old Terry next door who would have a fine view of the back part of the extension but i can live with that.) and making it safe.
I was told, wrongly i now see, that BC would just be interested in the steel, so thats the path i followed.
the inspector came when i wasnt there and then went off ill and is due to be off until the New Year.
so i called a few times, and finally someone looked at the notes and told me i was building an extension.
Fair enough, ignorance is no defence. So ive paid the extra fees and will know better next time. So now im looking at doing it the right way and praying that all the other work im doing to fix it up (insulating the loft for example - there was nothing up there but dust and a can of ancient rat poison) will get me the SAP pass i need.
and no one cares but a little part of me does want to say 'this was a ****hole held up with fence posts and spliced 4 x 4's and hot water pipes running unsupported the full height of the lower floors.....
and, worst of all, carpet in the bathroom
but ive learned my lesson and would love to get some advice on how to pass a SAP test