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Cheers. They need some hyperlinks in that building regs document.
So I think the running order is:
- Look on planning portal for ideas
- Stalk planning addresses on Right move historic listings
- Contact an all in one jobbie
- Get distracted by life
- See where we get to in June and post more questions here
- Look on planning portal for ideas
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Also 2.5 Ask a few neighbours if you can look at their lofts. We did this and people would also refer us to other neighbours with good lofts (!) so we ended up plugged into a sort of loft network :-/ Used to bring cake to thank neighbours (and @aggi) for letting complete strangers nose round their house.
One person no one else seemed to know but she had the best layout on the planning portal so I resorted to introducing myself one day when I saw her in her garden and asking if I could come and see her loft.
brokenbetty
Options are IMO:
A. Get a mesured survey (plans, sections, elevations) and then pay a qualified architect to do a feasibility study and go from there.
B. Get a loft company who ideally have a track record on the same street and house type - give them a brief, ask for drawings and then review their proposals very carefully before letting them do any work.
You cannot assess loft projects in plan - you have to consider the cross section - particularly the stairs - Building Regs Part K is your guide here.