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I think it's more the principle that you don't know how well it was done until you've bought it and found later that it wasn't well done. Maybe that one is fine, maybe not. Taken in context with the rest of the house I would lean towards probably suspect given the lack of modernisation and weirdness elsewhere. i.e. putting a boiler in a lean to with a corrugated plastic roof.
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Ah! I read your comment as 'There is this one terrible thing you should know about loft conversions'.
As it turns out, our loft conversion has ended up being a piece of trash. Along with pretty much everything else in the house. That said, it has been somewhat therapeutic to smash lots of things up and buy a circular saw, so...
atk
Just picking up on the comment about the loft conversion. When you say "not done right", what's the issue here? Our place has a loft conversion and, while apparently put in by a professional in the early 00s, it seems to be a total hack job.