Recent content by jarthurs

Regrettably despite the fact this house has virtually no mortgage I cannot get a mortgage on my current self-employed income so moving is utterly out of the question.

Just found the 2013 Part K documents online and it appears a reduced headroom of 1900mm is acceptable at the midpoint of the top stair, down to 1800mm at the edge of the stair. This is assuming the stairs are parallel to the ridge of the roof. Mine will be 90° to the ridge line, however there is...

This is a 1950's terrace house so ceilings are about 2.1m, being a terrace also means raising the roof would have 'issues' ;-)

It would either end up with the 10yo and 14yo up there or as an office for my Wife who is only 1.5m tall. At this point in time, any of them would much rather have a short room rather than share space! We had a guy come in to give a quote who wandered around measuring and muttering and...

We live in a 1950's terraced property and it has a nested roof where the beams come down and actually enter the 1st floor rooms. This means the upstairs rooms have a small 45° section at the top of the exterior walls. The end result is that the highest point of the loft is 1900mm above the...

They don't seem to have any local content, pretty much all the links go back to planningportal.gov.uk. Unfortunately we would be setting the precedent in the neighbourhood, most of the houses around us are owned by the local housing association. The only ones with extensions are semi-detatched...

We live in a terrace of five houses (second from the end), 1950's brick built. We have a small 'outhouse' with downstairs toilet and what was presumably a coal store, this is adjacent to the boundary and projects 2.7m into the garden. We have a sewer pipe (and access cover) which runs across...