Knocking single bedroom to make another landing or waste of money.

Touchstones2

I will measure the room later I just want the access to loft easier but we use the single room and the landing is already big enough u shape so adding the single room will make it a waste

Touchstones2

I also like to change attic hatch too see through one is it possible to bring light in

Touchstones2

Rough size 11' 3" x 11' 3" (3.43m x 3.43m

Touchstones2

The cost to add staircase is 5k this would mean losing bedroom which could be used as baby room or  guest room. The landing don't generate value to the house. Bedrooms do

Aranyani

Touchstones2 said:

 It would make the house a 5 bedroom with big landing
But in current set up it's 6 bedroom

At the moment its a 5 bedroom with a loft that you've put a bed in.  Nobody would accept that as a permanent bedroom.

theoretica

Is your priority to sell or live in the house?  At the moment you have 5 bedrooms used and an awkward attic.  You are considering changing this to 5 bedrooms and a landing - is the attic (if it had stairs) larger or nicer than the single bedroom? 

newsgroupmonkey_

foxy-stoat said:

Touchstones2 said:

Hi I live in 6 bedroom house.  The bedroom in the loft is accessed by a metal ladder. Building control passed it a long time ago.

I doubt building control would of past this if proper stairs are in place.  Access by a metal ladder doesn't sound very compliant to me for a habitable room.

My thoughts too. Metal ladders and loft hatches aren't bedrooms. Building control is there to ensure whatever you've done is safe, not how many extra rooms you've added.

rach_k

It depends on the loft conversion.  The fact that it's accessed via a metal ladder suggests to me that it wasn't done properly (or at least not properly as a bedroom) so your current single room - assuming it's a normal, safe bedroom - is probably worth more.  If the loft is done properly and safely, you'd have to work out whether it's worth more than the single.  Is it a nice double room?  Is it warm in winter and cool in summer, with decent windows and enough space to walk around, or is it glorified storage space?  

If it's worth more than the single, make a large landing and add a cosy reading nook or office space.  If it's not a room you'd want to sleep in every night, keep it as useful storage or a den for older children.

NaughtiusMaximus

Is it possible to add the staircase but still retain part of the room rather than losing all of it? Even it the resulting room is too small to realistically be used a bedroom, it will still have value to a potential buyer as a home office. I would imagine the vast majority of owners of a 5-6 bedroom house don't actually use all the rooms as bedrooms.

Slinky

Is anybody using the loft room on a regular basis at the moment? You say you're using the single room at the moment, but if you lose that room but gain better access to the loft room, would you use the loft room more?

I would have thought that price/demand difference between 5 and 6 bed houses isn't much difference.

I wouldn't class a room accessed by a pull down ladder as a bedroom.