lowri
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HIPS - the 3 bedroom rulingHow big (or small) does a room have to be to class as a bedroom? I am sitting in my office. It is 6' X 6'. You could just put a single bed in it, one way, but with the door opening inwards and there being a window opposite the door, things would be tight. You could put tiered bunkbeds in there, I suppose, but as an adult I would hate it. Access would be tricky.
From the "Health and Safety" angle, is there a minimum size? (one thinks of prison cells, perhaps.) I know with the door opening inwards you could squash someone a treat.
This enquiry is academic (I haven't been thinking of selling and by the time I do, the goalposts will have moved) but there must be some people out there who need information.
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Treacodactyl
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I'm not sure if there is a definition of a bedroom and it would have made more sense if they'd used total room count apart from bathrooms, WCs and Kitchens like some other legislation. There was a fair bit in the news about people classing 4-beds as 3-beds but they said the house value would suffer more than the pack price.
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JB
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I think the usual criteria is that if you can fit a cot in it an estate agent will call it a bedroom.
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gil
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| JB wrote: | | I think the usual criteria is that if you can fit a cot in it an estate agent will call it a bedroom. |
And it has a window ?
Here in Scotland, we have the 'boxroom' concept. More than a cupboard, less than a bedroom. Some houses have two. Wonder how that will be classed in relation to a HIPS ?
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JB
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| gil wrote: | | JB wrote: | | I think the usual criteria is that if you can fit a cot in it an estate agent will call it a bedroom. |
And it has a window ?
Here in Scotland, we have the 'boxroom' concept. More than a cupboard, less than a bedroom. Some houses have two. Wonder how that will be classed in relation to a HIPS ? |
and here in England if it's that large then they will call it a bedroom. (while looking for houses I honestly saw houses with boxrooms down to sizes of 6' x 5' and the estate agents would try to tell you that it was a bedroom!)
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lowri
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I've since heard that in Chelsea a broom cupboard has been classed as a one-bedroom flat and sold at a premium!!
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Helen_A
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We saw a *lot* of places a few years ago where bed 3 was less than 6*8.... 5 by 7..5' seemed to be a constant size...
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cab
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An estate agent valuing the house we bought here in Cambridge told us that if you can physically get a bed in there, its a bedroom. If you can physically get a double bed in there, its a double bedroom.
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Armchair
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| cab wrote: | | An estate agent valuing the house we bought here in Cambridge told us that if you can physically get a bed in there, its a bedroom. If you can physically get a double bed in there, its a double bedroom. |
Is the bed still flatpacked?
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