Reply to: National minimum bedroom size

[FatLazyContractor]

If I couldn't see those trees outside I would have sworn this room was on its side, with the bed and lampstand sticking up from the floor

Special effects for the maid innit? She gives me extras in return for that sort of treatment

[OwlHoot]

Dear AtW,

I just converted my outhouse into a bedroom for my maid. I have attached the photo after conversion.

I don't charge her for staying in it. Will I be alright?

Thanks,
FLC

If I couldn't see those trees outside I would have sworn this room was on its side, with the bed and lampstand sticking up from the floor

[BrilloPad]

Let's solve the housing crisis by kicking people out and making them even more desperate!

Anyone kicked out of the UK ought to be grateful.

[greenlake]

If you put a sofa in it rather than bed, then I reckon it will be ok...

I'm guessing that would depend on how big it is....

[AtW]

Where's the curtains? I wonder if people would be able to claim that rooms under 6.5sq.m are not bedrooms for the purpose of bedroom tax calculations?

If you put a sofa in it rather than bed, then I reckon it will be ok...

[MicrosoftBob]

Where's the curtains?

I wonder if people would be able to claim that rooms under 6.5sq.m are not bedrooms for the purpose of bedroom tax calculations?

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Presumably for the purposes of state benefits they will be deemed to be the correct size based on a hypothetical building that the claimant could be living in if they owned their own property

[GJABS]

Where's the curtains?

They're probably in the laundry after FLC wiped a certain part of his anatomy on them

[FatLazyContractor]

Where's the curtains?

I wonder if people would be able to claim that rooms under 6.5sq.m are not bedrooms for the purpose of bedroom tax calculations?

Curtains are old school. They are Electro-photo sensitive windows

[chopper]

Where's the curtains?

I wonder if people would be able to claim that rooms under 6.5sq.m are not bedrooms for the purpose of bedroom tax calculations?

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[FatLazyContractor]

Dear AtW,

I just converted my outhouse into a bedroom for my maid. I have attached the photo after conversion.

I don't charge her for staying in it. Will I be alright?

Thanks,
FLC

[centurian]

The smallest bedroom in my house is now the study - it's 2.4m x 2.4m, which is about 5.75sqm, so would be considered too small by this definition.

Yes, it's on the small side, but it was a bedroom before, could quite comfortably fit a single bed and a wardrobe. Little room for much else, but quite live-able.

Geek mode - the room is also 2.4m high, so the room is very close to be a perfect cube.

[AtW]

I can see a workaround for this: Have large rooms 6.5 meters square. But have them only 2 feet high, flat as a pancake.
You could fit five rooms each on top of the next in the space of one existing room.
Like Japanese capsule hotels, only larger (horizontally).

[GJABS]

I can see a workaround for this: Have large rooms 6.5 meters square. But have them only 2 feet high, flat as a pancake.
You could fit five rooms each on top of the next in the space of one existing room.
Like Japanese capsule hotels, only larger (horizontally).

[AtW]

That's going to hit ICT's if they can't live 20 to a room

It's not 6.5 sq meters per PERSON, it's PER ROOM.

So MFs Plan Z is still a go ...

[NibblyPig]

Let's solve the housing crisis by kicking people out and making them even more desperate!