Morning all,
Very naively when we bough our first house 5 years ago we had a builder do some works and never even knew about building regs. He did say - you should have really got permission for this so Ill just take some photos so if you ever need them you've got them. Now we want to sell our house and obviously it is a problem!
We knocked down an internal load bearing wall between the kitchen and dining room. We have a few pics of the beam installed - a builder friend came and looked yday and said that the Building Inspector(BI) may have issue with the fact that he hasn't use a padstone and also that he has used a really wide steel beam - the BI might say that as it is wider than the thickness of the original wall it sits on it could tip either way. He did say that the other connection at he external wall end though looks fine and is well sealed in so really the beam wouldn't have any room to tip as is tight in at the other end....
Im not aware of any calculations done at the time so literally would be showing the BI the finished pretty work and the pics that we have. The work was done 5 years ago and there are no signs of any movement.
We are planning on waiting until pushed by the buyers to get the regularisation but cant see them accepting indemnity insurance and don't want to lose the sale but also don't want to end up having to redo all the work.
In addition the chimney breast runs through the centre of the house and he knocked a big opening into that for us to have a stove put in - also no regs for this and no pics
Ive tried to attach the pics that we do have.
Any help please??????
Very naively when we bough our first house 5 years ago we had a builder do some works and never even knew about building regs. He did say - you should have really got permission for this so Ill just take some photos so if you ever need them you've got them. Now we want to sell our house and obviously it is a problem!
We knocked down an internal load bearing wall between the kitchen and dining room. We have a few pics of the beam installed - a builder friend came and looked yday and said that the Building Inspector(BI) may have issue with the fact that he hasn't use a padstone and also that he has used a really wide steel beam - the BI might say that as it is wider than the thickness of the original wall it sits on it could tip either way. He did say that the other connection at he external wall end though looks fine and is well sealed in so really the beam wouldn't have any room to tip as is tight in at the other end....
Im not aware of any calculations done at the time so literally would be showing the BI the finished pretty work and the pics that we have. The work was done 5 years ago and there are no signs of any movement.
We are planning on waiting until pushed by the buyers to get the regularisation but cant see them accepting indemnity insurance and don't want to lose the sale but also don't want to end up having to redo all the work.
In addition the chimney breast runs through the centre of the house and he knocked a big opening into that for us to have a stove put in - also no regs for this and no pics
Ive tried to attach the pics that we do have.
Any help please??????