Loft coversion asked to be paid by bacs

sean9461

However I recieved no contract from them, no information of only paying by bacs no official job sheet just what I told them I wanted doing. Tbh it's a relatively small job just the flooring and insulation.

I wonder what on earth would happen if I was planning on paying for this on credit card and they have not mentioned how they specifically want payment sooner!

Silver-Surfer_2

sean9461 wrote: »

However I recieved no contract from them, no information of only paying by bacs no official job sheet just what I told them I wanted doing. Tbh it's a relatively small job just the flooring and insulation.

I wonder what on earth would happen if I was planning on paying for this on credit card and they have not mentioned how they specifically want payment sooner!

You'd be making other plans to pay.

Furts

sean9461 wrote: »

Sorry for long wait been a busy couple of days

I forgot to mention this isn't a full conversion just structural flooring and they moved a few posts for now so I didn't have building control.

They had a structural engineer out who said it was possible to remove a couple of Perlins and put in extra support elsewhere.

I have the cash sitting here ready to pay. To be honest I thought it was the norm for most people to pay on card for the protection my mistake.

In this case I have read up for countless hours on what needed to be done to make sure it would be safe and what the structural engineer was saying does seem to be right.

I was just thinking for my own piece of mind if something does go wrong it's always best to pay on card.

I remember reading a Martin Lewis thing a while back where I'm sure it said to be safe always pay by card for s75

I would not be paying a penny until I knew where I stood with the Buildings Regulations. Removing purlins is structural alterations to your roof.

Also your term "structural flooring" means what? I am guessing the old ceiling has become a floor, which needs to be far stronger than it previously was. How do you know if this has been done properly and safely?

sean9461

Install wall plates gable wall and party wall bolted at 400mm centers
- Install joist hangers hangers at 400mm centres
- Install joists to regulations according to the trada table
- Lay three layers of earth wool insulation between joists
- Lay 18mm chipboard flooring
- Structural post to support roof


That's what they called structural flooring.

How would I go about getting this all checked out?

Should I be asking them to provide any documentation to go with it?

System

Do you have any documentation from the structural engineer to cover his advice?
And if you have no contract with them, and "just told them what to do" presumably they will just say that the building regulation compliance are down to you?
Structural alterations require approval, even with an engineers advice - I would be concerned about the paperwork on this one, more than the payments

sean9461

What sort of documentation from the engineer should I be asking for?

Doozergirl

A specification from the engineer that will satisfy building control.

And building control should have been notified before you started!

I hope you took or are taking lots of photos of this happening or you'll be pulling bits of it apart to satisfy the building control officer. Hopefully they will accept photos.

sean9461

Was hard to take photos they did it in less than 20 hours work.

I was told building control wasn't needed as this isn't a habitable room. Urrgh.

Doozergirl

Building control are needed as you have significantly altered the structure and loading of your roof. It needs to be deemed safe.

Your little spec even says 'lay joists to regulations'. What regulations would they be?!

Why would the floor need strengthening if it isn't a room? You're even calling it a loft conversion.

sean9461

It's because I want to do a loft conversion at some point but decided to just go with a storage option for now. Rather than pay 20 odd grand when I may not be staying in this house long. I got the structural flooring incase I do opt for the full comversion later. It would be silly of me to pay for normal flooring to then rip it up for structural.