"Hugo Nebula" wrote | Did anyone see last night's Property Ladder about a couple attempting | to convert two cottages into one? What a pair of herberts! Sarah | Beeny should have given them a good slapping!
Yes, a four bedroom 'family' home with a tiny sitting room (and I hate sitting rooms that open directly off the front door) and hardly any garden to speak of. Not exactly guaranteed to appeal to its market. The other rooms appeared to be some very strange shapes as well. SB went from complaining about it one minute to praising it the next.
Never mind, I think next week's herberts blow a third of their entire budget on one tap ...
| What concerned me most was the Building Control surveyor didn't seem | to pick up (or do anything about) the open stair in the middle of the | living room. The moment I saw the guy's plans, I thought, "that | doesn't comply; it's a change of use to a three storey dwelling. The | stair should be enclosed and discharge to a final exit". By the end | of the programme, not only was it open, but there was no handrail or | guarding to it.
I noticed the no handrail too. It seemed especially odd as AIUI they'd had to rip out the first staircase they put in as that fell foul of BCO; so one would have thought the BCO would have made sure its replacement complied.
Owain