'Bedrooms' & Building reg's
Discussion
I'm looking at building a partition wall in my flat to create an extra room. I plan on putting a bed and wardrobe in. The room will have a door that leads onto the lounge.
Am I right in thinking, unless it has a window on an external wall, if I ever sell the property the room can't be described as a bedroom?
This, as an example, is being sold as a '1 bedroom flat' despite the fact the bedroom is off the lounge and has no external window (the thing on the wall is a picture)...
Am I right in thinking, unless it has a window on an external wall, if I ever sell the property the room can't be described as a bedroom?
This, as an example, is being sold as a '1 bedroom flat' despite the fact the bedroom is off the lounge and has no external window (the thing on the wall is a picture)...
944fan said:
As I understand it (happy to be corrected), any habitable room must a means of escape (e.g. a window) to the outside. Without that it is a cupboard and cannot be described as any type of room in particulars
What happens with the houses we see from time to time on Grand Designs that are built underground?944fan said:
As I understand it (happy to be corrected), any habitable room must a means of escape (e.g. a window) to the outside. Without that it is a cupboard and cannot be described as any type of room in particulars
Sorry but that's not correct. There are no requirements for a room to have daylight, but there are ventilation requirements. Overlay that with the means of escape requirements for the dwelling as a whole and that gives you the framework to design within. In a flat, stage 1 of means of escape design deals with getting out of the flat, stage 2 themselves gets you the staircase and stage 3 down and out. The detail of that has changed as I am showing my age there.
Internal design of the flat basically deals with you getting to the cost entrance door. It's never ideal entering directly into a lounge. That's why so many flats have a little dark lobby just inside the door. All rooms are off that lobby which is fire protected.
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