Dear Group,as threatened in my previous post, here's another ...I have a rather inconveniently laid out victorian terrace with the stairs inbetween the two rooms upstairs and down which means that you have to walkthrough the back bedroom to get to the bathroom - unless you halve the floorarea by making a corridor around the edge - thus spoiling the betterbedroom. the stair treads and risers need replacing anyway (though with luckthis would cost little more than the price of a sheet of MDF and one ofplywood), it has been suggested I might have new stairs made and fitted inreverse at an estimated cost of at least £500.In the process I also get improved use of the alcoves for storage ...I can't predict whether I would be looking to sell or rent the house anytime soon, but I wonder if someone could please take a look at my sketch andtell me if what I am suggesting is an improvement and "worth" the expense.thanks in anticipationJeremy

"brugnospamsia" wrote| I have a rather inconveniently laid out victorian terrace with the| stairs in between the two rooms upstairs and down which means that| you have to walk through the back bedroom to get to the bathroom -| unless you halve the floor area by making a corridor around the edge| - thus spoiling the better bedroom.| think exactly this problem came up on Property Ladder and the advice was*definately* make the bathroom accessible not through a bedroom. Theproperty isn't really a *two* bedroom house without it. In that case thesolution was to put a corridor down one side of the bedroom.For the rental market, two house-sharing adults will not tolerate the onlybathroom (and loo) being through a bedroom, and most families will be putoff it as well. This will also affect the resale value.I would suggest not using a 'folding screen' between the back bedroom andthe corridor but a proper wall. It will probably be required for B Regscompliance anyway.Bear in mind, however, that...

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Rick Dipper 21 years ago

I used to have one of these houses, we sold when the first kid came along, and we struggled to sell it to families, a single guy got it in the end .........

Sorting out the access problem is a great idea .........

Rick

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brugnospamsia 21 years ago

My neighbours crammed 3 children in theirs !

They kept the stairs and hall wall in the original position, split the front bedroom, put a Velux in the new room with no window and put a corridor around the back bedroom - not sure who had which room - the two boys, the girl, or mum and dad - all crammed into three tiny bedrooms.....

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Rick Dipper 21 years ago

One solution is to make the 2nd bedroom long and thin, ie the current bacthroom, and the back of the existing bedroom, making the bathroom the front of the existing bedroom.

Rick

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Colin Wilson 21 years ago

You shouldn`t need to do it more than monthly if you lock the system down sufficiently in other ways (firewall, virus checker updated daily, different web browser - and if poss, a different email program !)

If its of any use to anyone, i`ve got setup instructions in as near to plain english as I could manage for Spybot S&D here:

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link to the other files mentioned too btw ;-)

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