Insulating rafters

[Shytalkz]

So it's an ifs and ands and pots and pans approach from LABCs is it? Are we going to have to design loft timbers in your area for 5kN/m2, because someone might choose to stick half a camper van up there?

Fortunately, down here in carrot land, they have a more enlightened approach. No fixed stairs, no problem, whether lined out or not. Surveyors will generally only raise it in any event, if they think that there might be a structural issue: and that's only because they don't want a claim on their PI, not because of their philanthropic mindset as to future occupants. Thus, your species are odds-on never to even learn of its existence.

Btw, you don't need to hurl your quals, such as they are, at me, as I think you may have mistaken me for someone who gives a sh*t.

 

[bcsurveyor]

if you must know i'm part time, i run my own business for the rest of the week. Oh n freddymercurystwin - ur a w*nker

 

[cooperphilip]

if you must know i'm part time, i run my own business for the rest of the week. Oh n freddymercurystwin - ur a w*nker

I Just want to know if it wrong what I am doing ?

There is yes's and no's ?

 

[Shytalkz]

Heheh, bite on McDuff.

 

[Shytalkz]

Seems you have a divurgence of opinion from the pragmatic to the dogmatic. Take your pick

 

[freddiemercurystwin]

if you must know i'm part time

Like all public sector workers!

 

[Shytalkz]

Ooi, what's your part time biz then?

 

[cooperphilip]

bcsurveyor. So is it against building regs what I am doing ?

 

[Shytalkz]

Mikric is also a BCO. you could ask him for his opinion as well. But, at the end of the day, just like mine, bcs's and anyone else's that's all it is: just an opinion.

If he's put the fear of God up you, go check with your actual LABC. Being Liverpool, it could go either way . Whatever, it would never be a potential issue unless and until you came to sell, they won't come around your house on-spec and demand entry. The Tin Gods' powers are not that draconian, much as some would have you believe otherwise.

 

[stuart45]

There must be some clear regs of when it becomes a habitable room. With an EPC it needs a window and a fixed staircase. I can't see that you would be only allowed to board the floor and not board the rafters.
As far as I know when selling you can't advertise it as a habitable room, but that is the only problem. If someone wants to stick their kids up there, that is their decision.

 

[noseall]

bcsurveyor:

So, if i wanted to store 'sensitive' stuff in my loft, stuff that was sensitive enough to warrant insulation, plasterboards etc, you are saying this contravenes a building code?

....and why are conservatories exempt? why don't you have your pound of flesh here too.

...and sheds!

 

[Shytalkz]

Ban All Sheds

 

[hotrod]

So, if i wanted to store 'sensitive' stuff in my loft!

woody stores his 'sensitive' stuff in his DIYnot album .

 

[Hughie]

I am replacing the roofing felt on my garden shed this weekend.

Just in case there are any part-time BCOs reading this I would like to state here and now that this does not mean I am planning to live in it - or move my mother-in-law into it in 10 years time. (Though that thought is tempting)

This thread has the makings of a TV sitcom!

Hughie

 

[cooperphilip]

Does it say anywhere in black and white in the regs that what I am doing is not allowed. Bcsurveyor are you still alive ?