Is this room even legally a bedroom?

System

Harrysmum03 wrote: »

I also read somewhere in my investigation that to use a window as a form of emergency exit it must be no more than about 4.5 meters off the ground with no obsticals or obstructions like railings etc. this hse has a 2ft side access to garden with a 6ft fence. So would make exiting very awkward in an emergency situation even if you Could get through the window.

But you are looking at current regs and not the regs that were in force when it was done.

E.G. the 2000 regs say that a window in another room can be the emergency exit as long as both rooms have doors to a common area and stairs

Harrysmum03

The room was converted just a few yrs ago, probably since 2000.
If your in a bedroom with a fire outside and no means of escape how do you get out to use the other window?
Who in their right mind would put anyone, be it adult or child in that room?

Yorkie1

Harrysmum03 wrote: »

The room was converted just a few yrs ago, probably since 2000.
If your in a bedroom with a fire outside and no means of escape how do you get out to use the other window?
Who in their right mind would put anyone, be it adult or child in that room?

Those are different questions from your original one, which is whether it is legal to call the room a bedroom. Morality / common sense does not necessarily equal Building Regs or any other regs.

DTDfanBoy

Harrysmum03 wrote: »

The room was converted just a few yrs ago, probably since 2000.
If your in a bedroom with a fire outside and no means of escape how do you get out to use the other window?
Who in their right mind would put anyone, be it adult or child in that room?

I don't understand why you are so keen to prove that the bedroom isn't legally a bedroom.

If you don't like the layout of the house don't take it, it sounds like it will be appreciated more by a family that actually requires a five bedroom house

It's nice to see that your council is actually trying to make full use of all its assets, how refreshing.

Harrysmum03

All I want to know is, can this room be classed legally as a bedroom with a window just 37in wide and 9in high?

DTDfanBoy

Harrysmum03 wrote: »

All I want to know is, can this room be classed legally as a bedroom with a window just 37in wide and 9in high?

The answer is YES :money:

GwylimT

Well my brother lives in a council property and his third bedroom doesn't have a window, houses a boiler and isn't big enough to hold a single bed, so any old cupboard is a bedroom apparently!

Harrysmum03

DTDfanboy
Firstly I'm entitled to a 4 bedroom house under the requirements set out by the council.
Secondly I have always appreciated my homes, more than most, taking great care to decorate them to a nice standard and keep them clean and tidy and if you'd seen the state these properties were in when I took them over you'd know exactly what I'm on about, I also know I am very lucky to have my home but it's taken me 20 years of hard graft and money to get where I am choosing not to sit on my backside while you contribute to my lifestyle, which would have been the easy option,that's presuming you work of course?
Now, Due to no fault of our own, we are reliant on a few benefits as measly as they are and a pittance compared to the £1000 a month in deductions my husband was contributing to society over the last 4yrs to then be bitten with the bedroom tax is just another kick in the teeth.
But While I was overcrowded for years in a 2bedroom flat with 3 children and my step daughter I didn't demand to the council they move me like a lot of people do, and I certainly didn't get a discount for being over crowded. instead I freshly decorated laid new flooring and made it look so nice the people downsizing couldn't really say no.
Now I am willing to downsize that's not a problem, even if I feel I'm being forced to. However I am not going to lose my home I've worked 20years to get, to move to house where I have to use the front room as a bedroom and my kids have to eat on the floor as we can't use our table, just so the council can class it as a 4/5 bedroom house when it clearly isn't.
It's not a 5 bed house it's a three bedroom house that has been converted into a very dodgy four. It just so happens to have a dining room that the council state can be used as an extra bedroom #5
I can use the bedroom downstairs as my dining room that is not a problem but my concern is that fourth bedroom upstairs. The first thing that I noticed was the extremely small long narrow window and just looking at it alarm bells rang. I like this house and it has great potential to be a lovely home that I will look after and cherish like my past homes and the family I would be exchanging with can have a hse big enough for their needs.
I am merely asking if this bedroom can legally be classed as a bedroom with such a small window and no means of escape if there was a fire. That's all,
I've asked for advice not criticism.
I'm not sure what all the fuss is about.

Harrysmum03

GwylimT wrote: »

Well my brother lives in a council property and his third bedroom doesn't have a window, houses a boiler and isn't big enough to hold a single bed, so any old cupboard is a bedroom apparently!

Blimey!!!
I'm presuming that's an electric boiler not gas?

GwylimT

Harrysmum03 wrote: »

Blimey!!!
I'm presuming that's an electric boiler not gas?

Of course not, that would make it slightly acceptable!