Consider whether you are likely to sell your property within 10 years. We
have had loads of people who can't sell because they've something like this
without permission, trying and failing to regularise the works. The usual
big issue is the means of escape layout, but there's the usual
structural/insulation type issues.

You may not consider what you are doing is making the loft habitable, but if
a purchaser's mortgage company does, you could have problems.

IanC




"John Rumm" wrote in message
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Mark D wrote:


I live in a very small 1930s semi and I'm in the process of converting
the loft space to a usable space...floorboards, ceiling and velux
window are installed...

Floor strengthened as well I hope!

I'm currently using an aluminum ladder for access.
I want to install a stairway but there is too little room for it to be
obvious how best to do it.

The rules for stairs into loft conversions are relaxed - more so if there
is only one habitable room up there. A "space saver" stair or even aspiral
may be permissable in these cases.

A friend had their's done professionally and the installers took a
chunk out of their bedroom to run a stairway and repositioned the
hatch at the top of the new stairway. Is this my only realistic
option?

Without drawings / photos it is impossible for us to say.

Have you got any ideas or are there any sites that deal with loft
conversions in small houses?

Try:

www.loftshop.co.uk

My site may also have something of use:

www.internode.co.uk/loft


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Cheers,

John.

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