Whats the legal size limit for boxroom to be then classed as a bedroom?

tanith

Why would you buy this house if you already had serious misgivings about the supposed 3rd bedroom? why did you not just walk away?

southend

ILW wrote: »

Why did you buy the place if it is this bad?

please read the worry about the safety etc not just about mis-selling or mis guided informationas people seem to think this is soley about

southend

Our daughter was younger then and no we had not measured room size. We had taken their word and advice. We did tell them our concerns, yes. They insisted we can. Stupid maybe.
A complete average door that opens would create a danger and would not fully open, hence folding doors, even if a bed would fit in there.
We have live in this house since 1984, like area and have family around. As far as this property is concerned, the rent costs more than a mortgage.
As i said a lot of the bed was inside the wardrobe, the remainder using floor space.
We have contacted them since. They consider a bedroom to be a bedroom if a cot can fit in there. No we did not have her cot in there when she was younger. They only changed the room as our son was legally too old to share a bedroom with a girl of her age then. Even if we did we have realised that we would not even be able to walk around it.

Emmzi

Again, who are this mythical "they"? Who do you feel you have a case against? Did you have a solicitor an a surveyor and what did they say at the time?

No one can help unless you explain things more clearly. As far as I can tell you are just having a rant, we need facts!

If you cannot do this on a forum, then maybe a face to face with a solicitor is the best option.

tanith

Do I understand you correctly? you've lived in this house for 28yrs and now you want to complain about the size of the 3rd bedroom? It beggars belief to be honest..

Frogfish

Slightly confused - who is "they?" Who is your complaint actually against here?

If you think you're living in a fire hazard, well you bought it in 1997 and you were living in it before, so you've had enough time to put some of these things right if they were so big an issue?

You presumably rushed to complete on the house because of the discount, which is understandable. But it sounds like you bought the house at a discount, now want to sell and are concerned that the house is "worth" less than you thought. As a result, you want to bring in a mis-selling complaint against a property you voluntarily bought a decade ago.

I was initially under the impression that you had bought the house after a hasty viewing and it would be possible to misinterpret the size of a room (my living room was smaller than I remembered, we only did one viewing before we bought!), but if you lived there before you bought can you really moan about this?

The discounts currently being offered to new buyers have got absolutely nothing to do with this, I don't know why you mention it. If you are feeling envious then it may be worth remembering what has happened to house prices since 1997...

southend

Some people are only reading part of my post. It was later we bought a 3ft bed, then we found out. No no-one held a gun to our head, but we could not of keep up paying the rent as it was increasing dramatically. The mortgage payments are lower. Health and Safety, welfare of our children is a big concern. Yes we are quearying about mis-selling/guidance etc but also the above.
May i add the total size of her mattress is 2ft 6inch.
We had nothing from our solicitor as far as room sizes etc goes and our surveyor from the bank told us about changing it back into a 2 bed to make it easier to sell. Room sizes were not mentioned, from them.
We may of lived in this house all that time it was a 2 bedroom house the majority of that time and was used as a 2 bed. We had our daughter many years later.

cattie

A friend of mine owns a 3 bed house, bought from council at a huge discount. Smallest bedroom can't take a bed so they have had to have one specially built in. No room for anything else in room other than small chest of drawers. Door is folding plastic one because of limitations of space, but they accept that this is how they bought the house so knew perfectly well that if they wanted a house with a better 3rd bedroom, they would need to look on the open market and find one which would cost way over what they were going to buy for.

Any other issues you have with the house apart from the bedroom, it was up to you to pick up on them before the sale and if you weren't happy, not to go ahead with the purchase. You were not forced into the sale, it was your choice to buy this property and properties are sold as seen.

Going4TheDream

Is this a wind up?

You lived in the house before buying it - you knew or should have known the issues about size and potential safety - yet you still bought it.

Why or how is that someone elses fault?

BitterAndTwisted

You lived in the housefor a long time and then you bought it: nearly fifteen yeats ago. Any quibblsd you may have had should have been voiced before you handed ove the cash and before you took advantage of the discount availalbe. Anybody who doesn't check the room-dimensions, most especially when they have been living in the for some time, is a fool. Any nonsense about fire hazards because of folding doors or whatnot are yours to deal with now and were from the day you completed.