Hello,

Does anybody know whether it is a big job to move a staircase that is partitioning the groundfloor front room and back room?

We want to shift it over to the side of the house, firstly to make the ground floor room open plan and light and secondly so that the stairs go straight into the upstairs bathroom (at the moment you get to the bathroom through the main bedroom).

How much? and is it a complicated job?

I lived in a terraced house where the stairs had been moved to the side of the living area to make on large open plan room. There were 2 large steel beams across the living room ceiling to support the walls of the upstairs rooms.

One thing I will say is that it took a long time for the large living room to heat up, especially as I was next to the alley, but it was lovely to have the space.

Generally when houses are built that way, there are walls on either side of the staircase, and both of them are usually structural. If this is the case with your house, then you are talking about a pretty major job. Especially since you'd probably want to take one of the walls down upstairs as well, since otherwise you'd end up with a random pointless corridor. Sorry, I don't know about cost, but I imagine it wouldn't be cheap.

Thank you,

I think I might abandon that idea. But can you tell me what you think of this new one.

I want to change the stairs because the bathroom can only be reached through the main bedroom.

Do you think it would be a difficult job to keep all supporting walls but just change the direction of the staircase within the existing structure?