Extending upwards?

[Pogle]

Mr P is a bit of a horder - i don't ask if he wants to keep stuff any more, if he's not looked at it for 2 years - he wont miss it. So it gets chucked out.
He is getting better though, he did voluntarily remove his VHS Dr Who collection from the hall shelves recently.
And no - we don't have a VHS player, but he may not have realised that yet

[Support Monkey]

To do a legal loft extension, you need, iirc, 6'10" room at the apex. If you dont have that, you will not get building regulation approval for the work done.

What you can do, is simply do all the work, and don't call the room a room as such, as once you say 'there is a room in the loft', you have to have building regs. If you have plastered out the walls and put windows into your loft, thats all you have done.

Daft rules, but hey ho.

Then when you do come to sell you will struggle because A) you do not have building regs or B)you just lost a bedroom to put the stairs in for a storage cuboard in your loft (its only a room with building regs) so now your selling a 2 bed instead of a 3, and planning may not let you put a different roof on or dormers in (again you will struggle selling with dormers and no regs), if you change the character of the house compared to the rest of the street, your local planning office will get involved

Its a hell of a lot of hassle if the loft space is not already the correct height your better of moving

[alreadypacked]

Mr P is a bit of a horder - i don't ask if he wants to keep stuff any more, if he's not looked at it for 2 years - he wont miss it. So it gets chucked out.
He is getting better though, he did voluntarily remove his VHS Dr Who collection from the hall shelves recently.
And no - we don't have a VHS player, but he may not have realised that yet

[minestrone]

Most of it is husband's crap. I tried to throw out his windows 95 and NT3.5 training manuals at the weekend, but he was having none of it.

If it is as bad as that I would get a new husband.

[OwlHoot]

Most of it is husband's crap. I tried to throw out his windows 95 and NT3.5 training manuals at the weekend, but he was having none of it.

Not sure if it's high enough to make dormer windows practical - I think even at it's highest point it is too low.

I can't believe anyone would be emotionally attached to a load of old Windows manuals, or any dead wood computer books come to that.

If carpy old books and manuals are taking up loads of room, I can send him 200,000 computing ebooks and training courses on a handful of bluray disks.

What about all your clothes and shoes though?

[Old Hack]

Then when you do come to sell you will struggle because A) you do not have building regs or B)you just lost a bedroom to put the stairs in for a storage cuboard in your loft (its only a room with building regs) so now your selling a 2 bed instead of a 3, and planning may not let you put a different roof on or dormers in (again you will struggle selling with dormers and no regs), if you change the character of the house compared to the rest of the street, your local planning office will get involved

Its a hell of a lot of hassle if the loft space is not already the correct height your better of moving

But thats the point: if you don't claim it is an extra room, you don't need building regs, just part P if you have a new leccy board fitted. You also don't need to lose a room to get stairs in. As Building regs aren't needed, you can access it via a pull down ladder.

Dormers can go in, as long as they are x away from the centreline, X away from gutterline and x below roof height. We had an architect plan several ways to maximise a bunglow within current laws, that included doing the 50 sm m extension not needing planning.

There are plenty of ways to get around it, but they're all compromises.

[Old Hack]

Mr P is a bit of a horder - i don't ask if he wants to keep stuff any more, if he's not looked at it for 2 years - he wont miss it. So it gets chucked out.
He is getting better though, he did voluntarily remove his VHS Dr Who collection from the hall shelves recently.
And no - we don't have a VHS player, but he may not have realised that yet

My wife is like this.

She didn't like some of my shirts. One day, I wanted to wear a particularly obnoxious one, when I couldn't find it, she said she threw it out 8 months previously, and if I hadn't noticed by now, I didn't really like it, as much as she really hated it.

Can't argue with womens logic...

[OwlHoot]

How about digging downwards? If you're careful not to undermine the house's foundations, you could have a huge cellar. Very handy for storing home brew, or DIY etc (and a handy bomb shelter if things ever get really fraught).

[alreadypacked]

My wife is like this.

She didn't like some of my shirts. One day, I wanted to wear a particularly obnoxious one, when I couldn't find it, she said she threw it out 8 months previously, and if I hadn't noticed by now, I didn't really like it, as much as she really hated it.

Waste of time to argue with womens logic...

FTFY

[BlasterBates]

I'm seriously considering throwing out my Uniface manuals, oh and also that Vauxhall Viva maintenance manual....oh hmm what about that DOS floppy disc.

Difficult decision though.