Buying Property, no Attic bedroom Compliance Cert

futont

Hi,

I am in the process of buying a house and we have had a bid accepted and were on the road to signing contracts. Then our solicitor told us that the attic conversion, which had been advertised as a bedroom, only had a compliance cert as storage. According to the surveyor this is most likely due to the fire requirements, since the size is fine, and there are windows both sides in the roof, with a permit of retention granted. I'm annoyed they misled us when they advertised it as a bedroom, but there is not much I can do about that now.

I am interested in hearing peoples opinions on this situation. The work is good, there is a structural cert for the work, and its finished nicely. But it still isn't technically a bedroom.

Are there potential issues with this regarding our home insurance, if we use it as a bedroom and something was to go wrong? Should we be negotiating the price down based on the work to bring it to standard?

I know every situation is unique, but would love to hear from others experiences.

Thanks,
Futont

Gumbo

Find out what would be required to bring it to official bedroom status.

rodzer

It sounds like it doesn't comply with the habitable room height criteria.
Not an easy thing to rectify, i.e. lift the roof

browner85

Could even be fire doors needed through out the house..

topcatcbr

rodzer wrote: »

It sounds like it doesn't comply with the habitable room height criteria.
Not an easy thing to rectify, i.e. lift the roof

+1

This is most likely the problem.

Gumbo

browner85 wrote: »

Could even be fire doors needed through out the house..

Room height - there's a triangle formula in Part H of the TGD's IIRC (will confirm later)
Protected escape - landing all the way to the front door needs to be protected
Doors - I've seen self closers on doors been accepted.