I am hoping that someone could give me some pointers or ideas on converting an old sunroom into a habitable room.
The house was for some time used as a doctors surgery and this L shaped room built at the back was used as a waiting room. When we bought the property it had been converted (sort of) back into a residential property and this room was loosely called a "sunroom"
My daughter has now reached the age of two and I would like to use the room as a play room and possibly later as a kitchen.
Some photos of the room
This face of the room is 5 metres long and has a double skinned wall and has a height of 2.3 metres up to the gutter. All other walls are single skin.
This face is just over 4 metres wide
The room at the moment has a corrugated plastic roof which is worse than useless. Due to this and part single skin walls it is prone to condensation and is very cold in the winter. Surprisingly we have no rising damp on the inside walls.
What I wish to do if it is possible is to insulate the inside faces of the walls and put a proper pitch roof with matching tiles to the main house roof.
There is a very low pitch to the roof at present, roughly about 14 degrees.
Just wondering if I could build a timber frame on the inside of the walls with Celotex insulation and foil backed plasterboard and lift the pitch of the roof upwards by fitting new roof trusses?
Some details of the inside
Note that there are no lintels above the windows just timber, but looking closely might have been at some time.
The room is roughly 2.5 metres wide all around.
This view shows the patio door just visible to the right.
I am guessing that the general opinion would be to demolish it and start again, which I did intend to do originally. But finances have changed, so considering other ways.
I would be grateful if anyone could give their views or ideas which I could take onboard.
cheers
The house was for some time used as a doctors surgery and this L shaped room built at the back was used as a waiting room. When we bought the property it had been converted (sort of) back into a residential property and this room was loosely called a "sunroom"
My daughter has now reached the age of two and I would like to use the room as a play room and possibly later as a kitchen.
Some photos of the room
This face of the room is 5 metres long and has a double skinned wall and has a height of 2.3 metres up to the gutter. All other walls are single skin.
This face is just over 4 metres wide
The room at the moment has a corrugated plastic roof which is worse than useless. Due to this and part single skin walls it is prone to condensation and is very cold in the winter. Surprisingly we have no rising damp on the inside walls.
What I wish to do if it is possible is to insulate the inside faces of the walls and put a proper pitch roof with matching tiles to the main house roof.
There is a very low pitch to the roof at present, roughly about 14 degrees.
Just wondering if I could build a timber frame on the inside of the walls with Celotex insulation and foil backed plasterboard and lift the pitch of the roof upwards by fitting new roof trusses?
Some details of the inside
Note that there are no lintels above the windows just timber, but looking closely might have been at some time.
The room is roughly 2.5 metres wide all around.
This view shows the patio door just visible to the right.
I am guessing that the general opinion would be to demolish it and start again, which I did intend to do originally. But finances have changed, so considering other ways.
I would be grateful if anyone could give their views or ideas which I could take onboard.
cheers