UK bedroom access regs

moneyistooshorttomention

G_M wrote: »

Try this:

First thought - removal men would love that (not).

Second one being the number of home deliverers that would probably refuse to carry heavy deliveries into the place.

Winter_Phoenix

We once owned a house with exactly that layout.

We took a slice off the bathroom to create a short corridor leading to the third bedroom.

It made the bathroom rather narrow, but putting in a full-size corner bath helped with the room proportions/layout.

And when we came to sell the house, it sold reasonably fast even in the property crash which was happening at the time - so a rather narrow bathroom didn't put off many buyers.

chris_m

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

First thought - removal men would love that (not).

Second one being the number of home deliverers that would probably refuse to carry heavy deliveries into the place.

I "think" G_M meant it as a solution for a means of escape from the marooned bedroom, rather than the principle way into the room, house or 1st floor.

fairy_lights

can you post a link to the house OP?

G_M

chris_m wrote: »

I "think" G_M meant it as a solution for a means of escape from the marooned bedroom, rather than the principle way into the room, house or 1st floor.

Partly.

But primarily I was thinking of giving the bedroom users an alternative access route when the bathroom was in use.

Of course, if kids/teenagers, you might not like them having a night-time escape route........

Arthritic_Toe

Winter_Phoenix wrote: »

We once owned a house with exactly that layout.

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Me too! Maybe its not so uncommon. I did similar - managed to split the bathroom to intoduce a dressing room/corridor

Pixie5740

rjdk wrote: »

It's not in the loft, it's on the 1st floor, it's been built behind the bathroom.

I was imagining someone climbing down a ladder whilst someone else was in the middle of their morning ablutions. :rotfl:

teddysmum

It sounds like my mother-in-law's last house which , originally was three bedroomed .There was a front bedroom off the tiny landing, to one side, and another on the other, leading to the third bedroom.


Having originally been without a bathroom, one was added, as is very common, at the end of the kitchen (same in my parents' two bedroomed terrace).


It appears that, instead, this house had the third bedroom made into a bathroom, then was extended to give a third bedroom again.


If this is the case, the bathroom will already be quite narrow, as the original third bedroom would have been over the narrow kitchen.