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Thanks to all! The building company sent out their attack dog to argue with us today. He was impressive actually, I'd have given him a job - I've rarely seen anyone more comfortable with aggressively arguing that black is white. We were called ignorant pigs and sworn at. It wasn't nice to be on...

Yes, the actual loft itself is fine. The issue is the stairs: they should have had 10 stairs then a turn, which would have avoided the roof line. We got 12 stairs and then a turn. We know that this would have worked because the neighbours had the same extension last year, using the same...

Thanks everyone for the very helpful advice and input. I'm away today but will try and get photos and drawings tomorrow. And yes, we are working with a design-and-build company. They are coming out to see us tomorrow (snow permitting!) so I'll point out that this is not what we contracted for...

Thanks Woody. I was presuming that our contract with the firm requires compliance with building regs, which is why I was focusing on that. I was thinking of the buildings control inspector as being the arbiter of whether that's achieved or not. So I should ignore the question of whether the...

Ah yes, a further complication is that the builder is the subcontractor here, who is working to the design company's brief. We blame them for their dodgy drawing, but they blame him for following it and are expecting him to bear the cost of corrections. We feel a bit sorry for him, to be honest...

Thanks and yes, the old pals issue is what is worrying us. I was wondering (although it would cost us money) whether we could sack the current buildings control company and hire a new one. Although we've already paid the current one, so I guess they might just issue a certificate of compliance...

Thanks for your replies. Sorry, my original post wasn't clear: it is currently well below 1.9 in the middle, not just at the edge. My understanding is that head height can go down to 1.8 at the edge, but actually it doesn't comply with this either. We are dealing with a company that did the...

We've been having a loft extension built and have hit a problem with head clearance on the stairs. We think the architect made an error, and it was not realised until too late. The old roof line protrudes into the stairway, which brings the available head height down well below 1.9m on one of...