Loft has no building regs. How do we proceed?

davidmcn

BLC1983 wrote: »

So does this change anything?

No. It's still ancient history, just slightly less ancient than previously thought.

Doozergirl

Either buy it or don't.

Leave the Building Control alone. It's too late now. Fact is, regs in 1989 weren't anything like what they are now and so you're trying to measure it against a low standard. They probably didn't even need insulation up there. What's the point?

Is it safe now? Should you be upgrading elements to ensure your own comfort and safety in the event of a fire, given that our standards have improved since then? Those are the questions to ask, whether it complied at the time or not.

I simply wouldn't contemplate building to those standards in 2019 and so I couldn't care less if it complied with those standards. I want my house to be the best it can be right now.

If you want something fully compliant, you need to buy a brand new house. Where's the completion certificates for the actual house? Why aren't people bothered with those? You'll stress for weeks about a missing certificate for a something that's 30 years old but take it for granted that the rest of house, which is older, is fine because no one's mentioned that.

The measure of safety is a survey, not a piece of paper. All sorts of things could have been done over the decades to any house that render the paper pointless. That is why surveys are recommended.

We're going round in circles. If you want to get a structural engineer to look at it, do it.