You are right, although I cannot tell you how much we do not want to speak with them any more. I just fear they will tell us to run posts from the ground floor all the way to the loft. The house is narrow as it is so adding another obstacle to the corridor is far from ideal. Plus one of the steel beams is above the porch so we can even put a post there.They need to be redesigning and paying for implementation of a workable scheme.