Loft Conversion - Skylights

MrCo

Hi,

I’m looking for some advice regarding my loft. We bought the house 2 years ago and the loft had been converted. It has a skylight, but its really low in the roof, so when you are in the loft its almost at floor level. Looking from the outside of the house, its not too far from the eaves of the roof. Its not really practical and hardly lets in any light. We have a dormer style structure on the other side of the loft which is the back of the house, this has a large casement style window (I think that’s the name for them), which only opens at the top, so a small gap. You couldn’t escape via it

I have two young kids and although there is a safety chain on the skylight, im not happy with it being so low in the roof and they can get easy access to it, if they were up there on their own.

I have a few questions:

- Is the skylight needed? Is there a safety requirement or building regulation which stipulates that we 100% have to have one?

- If I was to have it moved to the middle of the roof and have the old space plastered, insulated and re-tiled, any idea how much that would cost? Assuming the existing window could be re-used, I don’t see why it couldn’t

Thanks,
Neil

Waterlily24

We had a small skylight window in our loft room which was as the passed plans said (weren't allowed to have dormers). When they came to sign it off we had to have a large escape one put in as well.