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Help! No Building regs??

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  • pulliptears
    pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite
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    sortofok wrote: »
    :confused:

    Believe me, its the worse thing in the world trying to buy a house with a man who knows regs off by heart and studies every single crack.... :rolleyes:
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 50,505 Ambassador
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    Its there, I married an architecht who now works in development. He knows building and planning regs like the back of his hand. Basically you cant have a room opening into another room. Its all to do with "means of escape". If there is a fire in the living room and you are in the bedroom you have no choice but to escape via the living room.

    Interesting, we have a room off a lounge. We had a full structural survey done this summer and no mention was made of this. I don't know if the rules are different if it is ground floor and not a bedroom, but the surveyor didn't mention the escape issue at all. There are windows, but they are not particularly large.
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  • pulliptears
    pulliptears Posts: 14,583 Forumite
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    silvercar wrote: »
    Interesting, we have a room off a lounge. We had a full structural survey done this summer and no mention was made of this. I don't know if the rules are different if it is ground floor and not a bedroom, but the surveyor didn't mention the escape issue at all. There are windows, but they are not particularly large.

    Its not necessarily something that would be picked up. The only reason OH is so up on it is that he deals with social housing and that has to be spot on. Personally I think its a rather daft rule, afterall common sense dictates you would just break the window!!

    Cant find the exact bit in the regs, but this outlines it:
    Rooms which open only through another room (inner rooms) could cause problems for persons if a fire starts in the outer room – this situation arises in open plan layouts. This design is only acceptable for kitchens, utility rooms, bathrooms/toilets and rooms on ground and first floor levels with emergency egress windows.

    Jane
    x
  • pulliptears
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    Oooo, further **weird** update....

    I was early collecting DD from school tonight and happened to be there when the nursery class were leaving, which I usually miss. Who was there? The lady selling the house! Her daughter is in DD's school...

    We had a chat and I asked her about the beam. She told me that it wasnt actually them that knocked the rooms through, but my aunt before them. Now this I wasnt aware of.

    Im in the process of contacting Aunt to ask her all about it :)

    Told you this was a weird one!
  • Gold_Shogun
    Gold_Shogun Posts: 245 Forumite
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    silvercar wrote: »
    The council can only order correction for 1 year in the case of building regs
    Hi SilverCar,
    Would you kindly happen to have an (official site) link for this, please, as I thought it was a longer period.

    Cheers
    Bob
    Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
    Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.
    - Benjamin Franklin
  • smudger1946
    smudger1946 Posts: 645 Forumite
    Sounds a good deal, pay for survey on parts that worry you, at that price i would buy and sort problems later.
    Dont wait.
    Or just give me the addy and i will buy it blind! HA!
    LUCK M8
  • smudger1946
    smudger1946 Posts: 645 Forumite
    Buy Buy, By.
  • smudger1946
    smudger1946 Posts: 645 Forumite
    I LIVE ON THE ISLE OF WIGHT, IF I SAW A BUNGALOW OF THAT SIZE AT THAT PRICE ON THE ISLAND THERE WOULD BE A Q A MILE OR TWO LONG, I GOT A 2 BED BUNG UP FOR SALE £240,000 AND THAT IS A REASONABLE PRICE FOR HERE, SO WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT IS GOOD VALUE.
  • silvercar
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    Gold_Shogun wrote: »
    Hi SilverCar,
    Would you kindly happen to have an (official site) link for this, please, as I thought it was a longer period.

    Cheers
    Bob

    http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/HomeAndCommunity/Planning/BuildingRegulations/DG_4001372
    .....You can't be served with a section 36 enforcement notice more than 12 months after the date of completion of the building work,.....
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  • Gold_Shogun
    Gold_Shogun Posts: 245 Forumite
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    silvercar wrote: »
    http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/HomeAndCommunity/Planning/BuildingRegulations/DG_4001372

    Very Interesting ... Thank You Kindly.

    :beer:
    Bob
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