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Hello,
I was wondering if anyone had any advice about applying for regularisation for a re-roof. Long story short, bought a house, spoke to a lot of roofers to redo roof, it was a busy and stressful time and I didn't know I would need Building Regs approval and none of the roofers mentioned it, including the one I instructed. Now, after a family emergency, which means we need to move abroad I started to look at what we need to do to sell the house and found out that I should've applied prior to the works. Gutted and angry. Roof was done in Febuary.
We are probably going to lose money on the house due to buying in'22 and selling in'24 and this is just something that's making me incredibly anxious. Especially uprooting a family, visas etc.
Now, I 100% would like to go for retrospective approval but I want to know how intrusive it's likely to be and also not sure how much additional work will be needed to get it up to approval standards. Roof comes with a 15 year guarantee and the roofers seem good and do so much work around the area, sponsor events etc but they're not really giving me much back when I ask them questions. When i called him he said "it'll be fine" and to apply but I just don't fully trust him. I want to be pretty certain it will be fine before I go ahead and do it. I will be in a bit of a bind if we have big delays with selling the house as got so much to arrange abroad.
House is approx 110 yo and semi detached. Work was essentially re-tile and and new breathable felt.
Main concerns are:
- It was a slate roof and now has concrete tiles. But no mention of load bearing. Roofer says it'll be absolutely fine but he hasn't mentioned any calcs etc.
- The back bedroom roof is a lower pitch and you can't see it from the loft so not sure what the inspector would do here if wanted to check insulation and timbers etc.
I'm thinking of arranging a structural engineer to do the calcs then see, if that is fine I would more than likely just offer indemnity (and an explanation), as don't want to open up a can of worms with building regs needing access to the lower pitched roof void. But I am worried the SE will find issues and not sure where I stand if that's the case and not sure if they can complete the survey without being able to look at the back roof void either!
Any advice appreciated.
A very anxious soul.
I was wondering if anyone had any advice about applying for regularisation for a re-roof. Long story short, bought a house, spoke to a lot of roofers to redo roof, it was a busy and stressful time and I didn't know I would need Building Regs approval and none of the roofers mentioned it, including the one I instructed. Now, after a family emergency, which means we need to move abroad I started to look at what we need to do to sell the house and found out that I should've applied prior to the works. Gutted and angry. Roof was done in Febuary.
We are probably going to lose money on the house due to buying in'22 and selling in'24 and this is just something that's making me incredibly anxious. Especially uprooting a family, visas etc.
Now, I 100% would like to go for retrospective approval but I want to know how intrusive it's likely to be and also not sure how much additional work will be needed to get it up to approval standards. Roof comes with a 15 year guarantee and the roofers seem good and do so much work around the area, sponsor events etc but they're not really giving me much back when I ask them questions. When i called him he said "it'll be fine" and to apply but I just don't fully trust him. I want to be pretty certain it will be fine before I go ahead and do it. I will be in a bit of a bind if we have big delays with selling the house as got so much to arrange abroad.
House is approx 110 yo and semi detached. Work was essentially re-tile and and new breathable felt.
Main concerns are:
- It was a slate roof and now has concrete tiles. But no mention of load bearing. Roofer says it'll be absolutely fine but he hasn't mentioned any calcs etc.
- The back bedroom roof is a lower pitch and you can't see it from the loft so not sure what the inspector would do here if wanted to check insulation and timbers etc.
I'm thinking of arranging a structural engineer to do the calcs then see, if that is fine I would more than likely just offer indemnity (and an explanation), as don't want to open up a can of worms with building regs needing access to the lower pitched roof void. But I am worried the SE will find issues and not sure where I stand if that's the case and not sure if they can complete the survey without being able to look at the back roof void either!
Any advice appreciated.
A very anxious soul.