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In other words, which of the 3 options on the drawing are correct? Or all of them are fine? Please comment.

Thank you Ian for your ideas. To avoid going off topic I'll create new thread with better drawing and photo of the 'difficult' area. Thank you all for your feedback!

It's part 2 I'm struggling to find solution for. Our builder offered solution that won't work - hard to explain, but briefly they want to rest the top end of the vertical beam (as in the drawing) on another existing beam (not shown, but runs horizontally and above the one shown), which is too...

Thanks for explaining. So my LBT's are beams. I called them floor joists (FJs) because they will form floor joists for the converted rooms in the loft. Also they are not existing (old) joists but new ones 7x2's (freshly put). The old ones are ony ~2x2's and you can't see them as they are...

These LBT's are not floor joists (FJs), new FJ's are fixed perpendicular to the LBTs with joist hangers. LBT's are also there to support the roof via vertical 4x2's attached to them after existing support timbers are removed. image attached

Thanks

Hello everybody, We're doing loft conversion in bungalow (1928 built) and it looks like the only option we have to run the load bearing timbers is to cross them over. Phisically it should be doable, but are you allowed to cross-half the load bearers by building regs? P.S. Image attached...

That's how our builder proposed to do this - but so far we've been ok feeding up to 4.8m thru the loft hatch and 5.2m that we ordered recently should hopefully fit as well, thanks

I apologies I' ve mistaken and misguided you - our timber is not oak, it's a soft wood (attahed). Probably pine. JobAndKnock, thanks a lot for your explanations wrt timber rot etc - very helpful indeed!