Afternoon everyone,
You're all clever souls on here, I wonder if someone could possibly steer me with some advice.
We moved into a small property in early 2002, it's a wooden framed bungalow, with two 'bedrooms' coming off a lounge (which then leads on to kitchen and bathroom).
The previous owners converted the loft to a bedroom, and put stairs in one of the bedrooms (this bedroom is now used as an office - the other is my small studio). A builder chappie came over and said "Do you know if this complies with building regs?" So now I'm worried - The door into it is very small, and I do have to bend slightly to get in. There also isn't a vast amount of ceiling up there (although I am 6'3")
When we moved into the property there was planning permission granted for an extension. Due to several reasons, we let this lapse, but have now submitted plans and have had permission granted for an extension at the side of the house.
Now, my concern: we're now going to appoint an architect/engineer to do the building plans to get through building control, but I'm just concerned that if we have a building inspector to the house he may look at it all and go "Um, and what is this?" It's all in good order, appears very safe, and there is nothing upstairs apart from a bed and a couple of plants. The point I'm making here is that there isn't a load of wardrobes etc, and all we effectively do is sleep up there.
So - should we just assume that it complies with building regs? It's all appears properly done. What's the spec to make it comply? It's been that way for about 10 years I guess now. The irony of course is that there's nothing up there (from a load perspective) that wouldn't be there anyway?
Do you think I'm worrying about nothing? Any advice or opinion would be very welcome!
You're all clever souls on here, I wonder if someone could possibly steer me with some advice.
We moved into a small property in early 2002, it's a wooden framed bungalow, with two 'bedrooms' coming off a lounge (which then leads on to kitchen and bathroom).
The previous owners converted the loft to a bedroom, and put stairs in one of the bedrooms (this bedroom is now used as an office - the other is my small studio). A builder chappie came over and said "Do you know if this complies with building regs?" So now I'm worried - The door into it is very small, and I do have to bend slightly to get in. There also isn't a vast amount of ceiling up there (although I am 6'3")
When we moved into the property there was planning permission granted for an extension. Due to several reasons, we let this lapse, but have now submitted plans and have had permission granted for an extension at the side of the house.
Now, my concern: we're now going to appoint an architect/engineer to do the building plans to get through building control, but I'm just concerned that if we have a building inspector to the house he may look at it all and go "Um, and what is this?" It's all in good order, appears very safe, and there is nothing upstairs apart from a bed and a couple of plants. The point I'm making here is that there isn't a load of wardrobes etc, and all we effectively do is sleep up there.
So - should we just assume that it complies with building regs? It's all appears properly done. What's the spec to make it comply? It's been that way for about 10 years I guess now. The irony of course is that there's nothing up there (from a load perspective) that wouldn't be there anyway?
Do you think I'm worrying about nothing? Any advice or opinion would be very welcome!