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A surveyor hasn't seen the property as we bought it at auction, even though it's our first property this is what we could afford. We did discuss with quite a few to bring them in but a few advised there's no point at this time as we already bought the property... so we paid for asbestos surveys...

@Doggit at the moment there are two steel beams which sit on the chimney breast, one tied into the party wall and one from an internal wall (as there is no wall downstairs to support the one separating the mansard bedrooms, just the chimney breast, see photos attached which might explain it a...

@Doggit I appreciate your reasoning on the square room, I'm thinking the same, but as we're on quite a tight budget at the moment and this is not the most important part of our project we will have to deal with it in the future, maybe before it gets to selling.

@Doggit Thanks, I'll see what needs to be done before continuing to work on it so we don't have to open up things later. The biggest issue was (still is to some extent) the mansard bedroom where the cupboard is, trying to make some space there, we initially planned for taking the whole thing out...

Thanks a lot for the input, I'll try to clarify some things. There is a builder involved who is doing the work, a structural engineer has also been involved but I forgot to mention the cupboard at all until now and I'm the only one being worried about the party wall at this point. @vinn the...

@cjard thanks for the concerns but I'm not undertaking the work myself, the reason why I'm asking here is to figure out what my builder would need before he can start the demo

Hello guys, We moved into an old Cornish unit type 1 house and we're in the process of renovating it, but we're stumbling upon some things which are starting to worry me, maybe one of you has any experience with this type of property and can shed some light on some issues? - we removed the...