Is this staircase toooooo narrow?

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  • marc81
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    Sorry it doesn't seem to have liked my picture upload. This is the picture I tried to post...

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  • megaginge
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    Marc's image:

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    Hello There. :beer:
  • glasgowdan
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    teddysmum wrote: »
    A staircase is useless if you cannot move suitable furniture up and down it.


    My son has a new house and is restricted to a bed with it's mattress on a frame, as a divan cannot be taken up the stairs.

    I don't see the need for a divan bed, given how ugly they are, and wouldn't find a problem with only being able to fit a bed with a frame that dismantles.
  • ellie27
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    the_r_sole wrote: »
    ....you should also be able to keep your current stair arrangement without too much hassle, not sure how desirable it would be to have kitchen smells open to a stair?

    We keep the door between kitchen and dining room open all the time for ease of going between the rooms with food/drink/plates etc. We dont get any smells at all going upstairs so I don't think there would be much of a difference when we knock through the wall. True - not desirable to folk when considering a house to buy or when/if it came to us selling on.

    If we blocked off the staircase with a wall, except a door opening at the bottom, the door would open into our dining/kitchen. A door to a staircase to bedrooms upstairs...... is that as bad as open staircase into dining/kitchen. Which is the least 'least desirable'? Thanks!
  • Doozergirl
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    edited 17 October 2016 at 1:52PM
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    They're both undesirable because you have a five bedroom house with stairs in entirely the wrong place.

    Whether you put a door on is not going to make a lot of difference. If you have 20 viewers (or people looking at the details) when selling, a majority will be put off by the location of the stairs. Of those that aren't put off - you weren't - then I suppose more would prefer a door up, but again it isn't orthodox. I might expect it on a 17th Century house, but not a 20th Century one.

    I'd be looking to solve the problem correctly and make it back in the house value and appeal.
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  • ellie27
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    Doozergirl wrote: »
    They're both undesirable because you have a five bedroom house with stairs in entirely the wrong place.

    Any more ideas of where the staircase could possibly go? Thanks!
  • System
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    ellie27 wrote: »
    Any more ideas of where the staircase could possibly go? Thanks!
    in all seriousness you need to get someone in to do a measure survey and look at detailed proposals that would comply with building regs - there's been a few suggestions but you've kind of got to the point where you need a to get a professional involved to solve this problem with all the measurements and structural issues considered
  • Doozergirl
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    the_r_sole wrote: »
    in all seriousness you need to get someone in to do a measure survey and look at detailed proposals that would comply with building regs - there's been a few suggestions but you've kind of got to the point where you need a to get a professional involved to solve this problem with all the measurements and structural issues considered

    I agree. Even something that looks obvious on the ground can be hard to engineer. We've got a real handicap from where we stand.
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