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Just thought I'd give an update on this. Had a structural surveyor round today and he said roof was fine (there are actually 2 purlins per pitch not 1 as I previously thought). He also said loft probably did comply with regs at time of conversion so I bit the bullet and asked the council...

The indemnity policy will not pay out for shoddy work, only if an enforcement notice is served and like you said, that's not going to happen unless we invite the LA in thus invalidating the policy. My loft looks like this picture (not a photo of my loft) in that the beams have no visible...

They run the entire length of loft (6.45m) and are 28cm x 7.5 cm

I recently purchased a new house. A previous owner had converted the loft without building regs so the seller took out indemnity insurance for the lack of building regs. I had a Homebuyer report done pre-purchase which commented that the pulins in the loft 'appeared to be of adequate size' and...