changing a house from non standard construction

jasonkurtsdad

hi,, my house is non standard construction. its about 110 years old and is basically a kit house thats been clad in sarking boards, felted, then wire put on the outside and pebble dashed.

heres the question.....instead of putting a block skin round the outside...i think the house would look amazing clad in timber.

id strip off all the pebble dashing and replace all the sarking with new ply, building paper, 2"x"2 strapping, insulated, then clad in timber. would this change the status of the non standard construction? Then it would be a kit house clad in timber instead of brick work

would also be cheaper too!

ormus

no.
standard construction means brick or stone , with a pitched roof, of tiles or slate.

jasonkurtsdad

short but sweet eh!

phill99

You would need planning permiaaion as this would be clsssed as a 'material change'

27col

I doubt whether there were kit houses 110 years ago. It's probably just a house built up on site from materials available at the time.
I had a wooden bungalow which was framed with wood and clad in ship-lap board. It had no insulation whatever, in the end we pulled it down and built a traditionally constructed house of brick, blocks and concrete roof tiles. It was riddled with wood worm so we decided not to try to improve it.

jasonkurtsdad

the house is very much a kit house, 110 years old and in the highlands of scotland. you see new houses built the same way with the wooden cladding on them. i`m asking for mortgage purposes....i.e. would it be easier to get a mortgage if i had the harling taken off and reclad in larch?

keystone

Ask the mortgage company or their appointed surveyor.

Cheers

Mankysteve

As the first reply states it still would be considered non standard construction.

Gloomendoom

27col wrote: »

I doubt whether there were kit houses 110 years ago. It's probably just a house built up on site from materials available at the time.

Kit houses were very popular 110 years ago... especially in Scotland. They were also exported all over the world. You will see many in Australia and New Zealand. A timber frame clad in corrugated iron was the usual method of construction.

Corrugated iron buildings were once a common sight in the Highlands around the turn of the century, but have now become something of a rarity.

Originally known as portable houses, they first appeared around 1830, but only became widely adopted toward the end of the 19th century. In those days, corrugated iron was a more substantial material then the flimsy sheet metal product we know today, and the houses produced then were of significantly better quality than similar structures produced today. The original so-called corrugated iron was actually wrought iron, much thicker and robust than the thin, flexible sheet material the term refers to today, and galvanised to resist the weather.

The houses were usually purchased as fairly inexpensive kits, able to be erected quickly, and capable of serving the needs of a small community, being available as ready-to-assemble kits for domestic houses, offices, stables, ballrooms, churches and hospitals, as described in the catalogue of one the suppliers of the time, William Cooper Ltd.

Source

27col

There you go then! As I keep on saying, it is amazing what you can learn on this site.