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  • Not quite sure where the 2nd room is going on your plan but I went with similar to layout 1 but en-suite.

    It has a proper soil pipe (although there is a small boxing in under the eaves where it goes, the space would be useless for anything else).

    We saw a few examples and the smaller rooms didn't seem worth the money and without plenty of windows they look a bit dark, velux don't seem to provide as much light as full size windows I thought.

  • Layout 1:

    layout 2:

    One's back to front but you get the gist...

    It has a proper soil pipe (although there is a small boxing in under the eaves where it goes, the space would be useless for anything else).

    Does it go round to a stack at the back, or does it connect at the front? With layout 1 the pipe would have to go right from front eaves to back of the house.

    We saw a few examples and the smaller rooms didn't seem worth the money and without plenty of windows they look a bit dark, velux don't seem to provide as much light as full size windows I thought.

    Yeah that's what I'm worried about. I'm stalking old loft conversion planning submissions on the Haringey Council website, going to knock on a few neighbours' doors and say "scuse me, can I look in your loft?".

    Nothing dodgy ever happens in lofts in Tottenham, I can't see any way this will end badly.

  • Soil pipe goes from bathroom near the front out to the back.

    I also spent a considerable amount of time on the Haringey Council website, I'm over near Green Lanes on the ladder though with a fairly wide house (looks like it's about 4.2m wide so main room is 3.1m wide (and 7.5m long with about 3.8m at full height (ceiling is about 2.1m)) and bathroom is 1.1m). I'd definitely look at a few, some of the L shaped ones looked like they'd squashed too much in there, particularly in a narrower house.

    I assume you own the whole house. Haringey aren't keen on approving L shaped conversions if you only own the upstairs flat.

  • Actually got details of my one when i was purchasing it and that was haringey council. let me see if I can find it.

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