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Hi all,
First time poster but hoping to use the forums a lot
I have helped friends with kitting out insides of extensions etc but now moving up a step from DIY'er to a garage convertor (not a bit leap but scary enough!) and am doing this for the gf who is on a very tight budget.
She has a flat cold roof above the garage which was replaced for the most part 5 years ago.Now we had Building Control in today and was gob smacked.He was not the friendliest of guys but did help in some areas but when it came to the roof its left me confused.As per the pics i have added you can see there is no vents as it is just boarded up against the house so no soffits for vent strips either side.I asked the BC about this and he just looked at it and went "Hmmmm best off getting a warm deck i reckon".I said the neighbour has the same conversion but was done 15 years back with no vents and he just said was before regs changed but then pointed out a home round the corner that had only been done 2 months back and all he could say is "Cant have been signed off then because its wrong yet plenty of same styles in the area seem to have cold roofs with no vents yet BC just say cant help! Got a builder coming to look at bricking up the door as my brickwork matching to the house is not good enough imho and will ask him but can anyone tell me what options i have ? Could i do the usual 50mm void with 150mm (100 in joists and 50 crossing them) and somehow put in roof vents because i mentioned it and he just ignored me.Luckily he said he was just filling in for the guy who would be doing my stuff in future which i am pleased about but having to break the news to the gf today has shaken her up a bit (added on top of the £1000 to move a gas meter!) . So any help would be really fantastic that i could put back to BC.Wondered if the mushroom type vents would be an option?
Thanks very much everyone in advance.