living with building works?

Davesnave

I thought those sort of staircases went out with the Victorians!

Oh, hang on, I see it's a renovation and the new build is on the rest of the plot.

Ah, well, folks were smaller in those days. I was in a Victorian cottage last week and 'compact' would describe most of it, despite there being 3 floors. The staircase was like something out of a commando training course....

Never mind, there's a perfectly good, reasonably proportioned property out there somewhere for you.

moneyistooshorttomention

One of the (more minor) reasons I sold my last (Victorian) house was that there was an aspect of it that was fine for standard size people. However, I could see people on the whole had got fatter since I bought that house (in the 1980s) and it looks likely that that trend will continue for some time yet and it just wasnt a suitable house for an obese person. I'd spotted that when watching an obese friend "navigating" my house.

So - part of the reason for selling was to do so before an even higher proportion of people would find the house unusable to some extent.

I know what Dave means about how staircases can be in older properties - I've visited a couple like it and my mind boggled and I was more than a little nervous about the stepladder type staircase I had to use.