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It's pretty obvious, because you can see the half brick wall between ours and the neighbour's door. But I honestly do not think the architect would have spotted it and if he did, I still don't think the calculations would have been different. When BC asked them to justify the load they resend...

I agree with both of you. We will try to engage in dialogue with the architect, we've already draft him an email, but we will firmly stand our ground. We are not confrontational but equally we want this to be done and from your advice it looks like we can expect them to take responsibility for...

Sorry you mean the one in the loft! There was only a plasterboard, no bricks, our contractor upgraded it as you mentioned

Fair point, there is a lot in here. The problem is that we are stuck half way through building a loft and need advice on how can we progress it so it gets approved by BC. We do not want to incur additional costs, our budget is limited. So maybe someone knows how to justify added load on a half...

This never came up, not even mentioned by BC

Could you expand on that? You mean they would pay for whatever work is needed to comply with building regs? They can tell us we shouldn't have started work before BC inspected the site and approved the plan

Previous owner removed too much of the chimney breast, left around 800mm while the stack is 1100mm. So we need to build it back. However, the loft is small as it is, and where we need to build it back we planned to have a shower. I got another SE to design support with a steel and a post that...

You are right, although I cannot tell you how much we do not want to speak with them any more. I just fear they will tell us to run posts from the ground floor all the way to the loft. The house is narrow as it is so adding another obstacle to the corridor is far from ideal. Plus one of the...

This is an old house build in 1913, so I am not sure if the foundation would be sufficient. Please tell me more about it, do we need to open the floor and examin foundation? What would BC ideally like to ses? You mentioned costs, why would it be expensive?

Chimney breast is another story, but this is not on the half brick wall.

I have no idea, I hope someone will tell me that it's not an issue and explain how we can prove it. Is it because of the hight i.e. because we are inserting the steel at the loft level which has impact on stability? Our contractor completed two jobs recently which had the same problem except...

Yes, to make it worse, even the architect who did the drawings never visited the site, only send his assistant to measure the house. Which I don't think it's a big deal if he did a good and thorough job

I really hope this is not the case

Not exactly, we submitted our drawings and calculations, but the drawings incorrect indicated that there was a single brick. Our application was validated. We had a BC inspection and this is when he noted the half brick issue. By then we already installed 3 steel beams.

The engineer works with the architect, so we never really spoke with him. Everything is through the architect. The source of the problem is with the architect not realising that there is a half brick between us and the neighbours. Although it is very obvious; you can see the brickwork from...

We recently started our loft conversion in a terraced house. The contractor followed the plans based on a calculation that was provided by a structural engineer. The work progressed to a level that three steam beams were put in place and by this time we heard back from the council building...