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It's fine for you, it's more the next person who will be looking at it thinking do I have to rip that out and start again? What crazies will I find underneath?
(appreciate that can be the case with developer built and signed off works too, but home brewed and left field stuff is rightly or wrongly looked at more sceptically)
Howard-
thinking do I have to rip that out and start again? What crazies will I find underneath?
In our case we weren't thinking that at all when we bought the place with a "professional"-but-not-extra-room conversion that looked all cute and have ended up with a never ending stream of "WTF?!", "WHYYYYYY" and "You cheap f*cking f*cks".
Otherwise you could get a builder to add the new floor joists/beams/rooflights and do the rest yourself?
I wish we had done this when we had the roof redone, but now I can only assume it would be silly money and never going to be legit anyway given the state it's in (staircase emerges in the middle of the floor), but want to make sure it's safe/sensible etc.
Have already vetoed the stupid-heavy futon thing left by the previous owners going back up there or any sort of sleeping arrangement. Just going to run a desk along one of the walls for home office, maybe couple of beanbags/soft chair and bit of storage.
@hoefla going down the diy insulation+boarding+finishing route. We've had the roof replaced, new battens and a breather membrane, also couple of slate vents (not that I understand the purposed of them) and a new Velux. Going with 2 layers of the spaceblanket insulation as we have skinny rafters and we'll only loose 25mm in height compared to the original room. Eaves on one side will be warm storage, other half (with adjoining felted bathroom roof will be cold). Will make sure there's access to check the rafters periodically until I'm confident it's all working. Hoping there should be enough airflow.
Now that I've started thinking about this again, I wish we'd stumped up for a dormer/sacked it all off and turned it back into a loft/bought another house. Thankfully I have things to fix in the cellar this weekend. Hopefully this all passes when we get it finished.
atk
Mine wasn't 'dodgy' or 'weird' - I'm an architectural technician and it was constructed properly (just by me)
I think there are options apart from handing over £££ to a builder and you are happy to take on some of the work yourself