Laurence737 Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Hi, Following my other post we have found a house that we love however we would need to make some big changes to make it liveable. The property used to be a large hall (build in 1883) and was converted in the 80's. They put low flat roofing on the second floor to create a loft cavity (only around 1.8m cavity) the roof is traditional cut and pitch and was previously open a long time ago when it formed the hall. We would like to raise the roof to match the pitch and fit a velux window in each of the upstairs rooms. We are also looking to add a bedroom to the upstairs floorplan, however this will be on a wall without a window (borders the neighbours garden. Would it be possible to fit a velux in this room to meet building regs? Pictures and plans below. Thanks for the advice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 6 minutes ago, Laurence737 said: Would it be possible to fit a velux in this room to meet building regs? Only if you made the stairwell fully protected for fire, which would need all of the doors to be fire doors, and potentially you may have to include secondary protection such as sprinklers. You may find if you made the upstairs gallery narrower and provide a protected fire corridor to another room, they may let you do that. Would need an understanding BCO. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurence737 Posted July 10, 2020 Author Share Posted July 10, 2020 (edited) 3 minutes ago, PeterW said: Only if you made the stairwell fully protected for fire, which would need all of the doors to be fire doors, and potentially you may have to include secondary protection such as sprinklers. You may find if you made the upstairs gallery narrower and provide a protected fire corridor to another room, they may let you do that. Would need an understanding BCO. Hmm that may be problematic as the staircase is open to a gallery landing so making it fireproof would be near impossible I'd say? The new bedroom would be next to the yellow room on the first floor overlooking the gallery landing. Edited July 10, 2020 by Laurence737 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterW Posted July 10, 2020 Share Posted July 10, 2020 Could you not do this ..? Would obviously need a door somewhere ..! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laurence737 Posted July 10, 2020 Author Share Posted July 10, 2020 I don't think the gallery would be wide enough to fit a corridor in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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