Thinking of doing this and wondered how easy it is x

well it depends hun ,,, i asked about doing this ( housing association ) and was told pretty much i couldnt down to fire evac issues x x

Erm?

I've never done it myself but my parents remodled their old house and did something similar. It wasn't a massive job from what I could see coz they just put up a studded partition with a bit of plaster and paint - voila!

I suppose it is dependant on the size and lay out of the room in question - where the door/window/electric points/light rose and switch/radiators etc. If you can partition it without having to move anything major then Im sure it would be simple.

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I did this in my first house. It wasnt council or anything so didnt get permission. We basically created a little corridor and put in a partition wall so they each had their own door. It was quite easy actually hun xxx

i love wickes for this!! im planning on doing the same, but to my down stairs. only thing is thou, we were told we need planning permissions, im sure, and it may raise the tax band on ur house cause its an extra room..

u have to think bout doors too, and fire escapes. its easy enuff to chuck a partition up thou
http://www.wickes.co.uk/content/ebiz/wickes/resources/images/gil/7.pdf

I thought that it would increase council tax too laura but apparently it only increases if you increase the square footage of your property - i.e. add an extension and even then it doesn't get rebanded until the property is involved in a financial transaction - i.e. sold, remortgaged etc. We found this when we bought our house last year - the previous owner had put a huge extension on (which is great) but the council tax band he was in wa still for a small two bed - so when we moved in we had the council ringing up within the week wanting to reband us. Happy new home oh and btw you owe us a few hundred pound in extra council tax, nice!

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mara wrote:

I did this in my first house. It wasnt council or anything so didnt get permission. We basically created a little corridor and put in a partition wall so they each had their own door. It was quite easy actually hun xxx

Wht did you do about the window hun?

Spooky I was going to ask the exact same question. MJ's room is 12 foot something long by 10 ft 3 inches deep and was thinking of halfing it with a stud wall so Drew could have his own little space and I was going to ask about windows etc... x

It was a full length room with windows at both ends xx

Its a very easy job if you have windows, electric sockets, light fittings and radiators in the right place!

My parents old farmhouse had a HUGE bedroom that wrapped around the chimney thingy in the wall - they put up a stud wall in but it had everything as above already as it was such a big room.

Of course had they needed to knock a window out and add a radiator etc then the whole thing would have been a bigger job (well my dads a building contractor but you know what I mean!)