loft conversion - stair options

Bathrooms with two doors aren't popular. If you were meaning the ability to close off one door and open another permanently, that could leave one bedroom without a WC on the same floor, which would not be popular. It might also not comply with Building Regs, which would have to be applied for when you change the layout.

A bathroom on the top floor with only one bedroom there is fairly private and will suffice in lieu of an ensuite, but provides the flexibility of being used separately if needed (per Sarah Beeny).

Depends on your target market, the locality, and the balance of the house - eg potential buyers for a 4-bed house are more likely to expect

2 separate reception rooms.

If you plan the strengthening beams properly you will probably have spavce to run soil pipe under the new loft floor. Otherwise there's always s*n*f*o.

Keeping the available headroom for the habitable rooms is definately best. You ned a bit of headroom in a bathroom if you want to get a shower in.

Owain

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On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:22:29 +0000, a particular chimpanzee, John Rumm randomly hit the keyboard and produced:

Hmm, not quite. 2.0m where the stair rises parallel to the roof slope; where the stair rises at right angles to the roof pitch, you can have 1.9m in the centre with 1.8m at the lower edge (and by extrapolation, 2.0m at the highest).

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Hugo Nebula

On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:25:13 -0800 (PST), a particular chimpanzee, sm_jamieson randomly hit the keyboard and produced:

No longer applies. Since the revision of Part B last year, all loft conversions have to have fire doors on all habitable rooms off the stairs to all floors. This removes the need for an 'escape' window.

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Hugo Nebula

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