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'Loft room' not to current regs
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It doesn't matter if it doesn't meet today's regulations, it's whether or not it met any regulations that applied at the time it was built or converted that matters.
It's like wiring - many times we see prospective buyers come on here panicking because the surveyor has said that the wiring doesn't meet current regulations - probably 90% plus of houses over 5 years old won't meet the current regulations but met those in force at the time they were built or last rewired and are still perfectly safe. If every house had to meet the current regulations at all times we'd have a dire shortage of sparkies to do all the work every time the regs changed.
I was under the impression that you could not advertise it as a bedroom if it didn't meet current regulations? There probably were not any regulations when it was built!
It would be good if you are correct.
I suppose it doesn't matter anyway if it is original and not a conversion.
Just a bit more info as to why we think it is original. Our house, although terraced, was built around 1857, about thirty years before all the others which were joined on in about 1890.
When we had the loft room replastered, the plasterer found the remains of a window in what would have been the gable wall before the house next door was joined on. You could still see the window shape, it had just been bricked in. Coupled with the type of plaster that was on the walls, and the type of stairs, the age of the floorboards etc, that is why we think it is original.
We have all the original deeds, they nothing about the number of bedrooms as far as I can see.
Maybe we should ask a surveyor to give their opinion. It would certainly be good to be able to advertise it as a three-bed.(AKA HRH_MUngo)
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