What's the point in spare bedrooms?

[Randomface74]

Robot hoover ftw

 

[rG-tom]

there is if your on the dole,you get punished

you cant have asmany as you like the government says NO!

its ok though aslong as you breed like rabbits and fill the rooms

who are you? my parents paid all mine in the past

it just encourages breeding imo

its easy to mock cos your in your private house

you don't pay mine

mind you own

im against it as its a scam

its if you have a spare room while claiming housing benefit so its an excuse for bedroom tax??

as in a room that's big enough to fit a single bed in

unless you're disabled you should think yourself lucky that you get any benefits; you have no right to complain about anything like this! You're paying this so-called "bedroom tax" with money that you didn't even earn in the first place?!

This kind of sense of entitlement from lazy job shy mouth breathers really is disgusting in my opinion. Get a job.

 

[Feek]

It makes the house more valuable.

My house is a three bedroom semi but I've had one of the double bedrooms converted into two singles, stud wall, doors, separate radiators, light switches and everything.

So technically it's now a four bedroom.

Does that make it more valuable?

 

[Dr House]

Robot hoover .

I did think about it buts I would need too many of them and we have hard floors so they need to be mopped.

We are selling anyway the new place will be 700 to 1000 sq ft so much easier to manage.

 

[Spook187]

Spare rooms have one purpose to make into man caves for us

As for the bedroom tax thing it's totally unfair with people who have children or partners with special needs, but that's the Tories for you

 

[kitch9]

its if you have a spare room while claiming housing benefit so its an excuse for bedroom tax??

as in a room that's big enough to fit a single bed in

You appear to have no idea how it works?

 

[V F]

Is there such a thing as posh nowadays except those of the land of gentry…

 

[mattyg]

My house is a three bedroom semi but I've had one of the double bedrooms converted into two singles, stud wall, doors, separate radiators, light switches and everything.

So technically it's now a four bedroom.

Does that make it more valuable?

Yes.

We did this with a renovation and added £20k to a £150k house. Went from a 2 to a 3 bed and sold in 3 days

Not a bad return on the £1k it cost to do.

 

[kwerk]

you dont have a guest house on the grounds?

 

[Efour]

Its a British thing get over yourselves.

No one in Sweden measures houses by bedrooms. its Square Meters or No. of rooms.
The more i live here the stupider some British things seem.

 

[Spook187]

Can't people with different needs get an exemption..?

Just Googled and there's quite a list of exemptions/measures to safeguard people unfairly affected,

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/...-removal-of-the-spare-room-subsidy-fact-sheet

There was a few stories on our local news about the carer side or special needs people who only stay now and again in the house with the extra bedrooms getting booted out of their homes.

 

[Dj_Jestar]

My house is a three bedroom semi but I've had one of the double bedrooms converted into two singles, stud wall, doors, separate radiators, light switches and everything.

So technically it's now a four bedroom.

Does that make it more valuable?

Actually, yes it does. It's a common "trick" to spend a few grand to convert even a moderate sized double into two box rooms to get an extra £10k-20k on the asking price. It's not uncommon for estate agents to recommend sellers do this.

Likewise for people that "convert" their garages by nailing some plaster board to the walls, painting them, and putting a lamp shade on the light and some cheap carpet down (but skip doing insulation and heating) to call it another bedroom.

 

[Spook187]

Booted out of their homes..? You'll have to show instances where that happened.

Trying to re-housed to a smaller house with less bedrooms, oh wait you can't because the Tories sold them all off and never replaced social housing.

 

[bitslice]

Spare bedrooms are for women to decorate to look like some magazine article, because they fantasise about being the glamorous hostess holding weekend parties for all her glamorous friends.

Or as a dumping ground for an obsessives collection of cushions and popurri

 

[V F]

Its a British thing get over yourselves.

No one in Sweden measures houses by bedrooms. its Square Meters or No. of rooms.
The more i live here the stupider some British things seem.

Heh…

 

[Spook187]

They're not forced to move, are they?



And Labour didn't sell them off, or did replace them?

There is no where for these people to go, of course Labour made mistakes, the whole extra bedroom thing is flawed, you can't move people to smaller houses with less bedrooms if there is no houses in the first place.

 

[arc@css]

In case someone comes to stay.

Can't be bothered to read the rest of the thread.

 

[DXP55]

Spare rooms are awesome dumping grounds

The right answer

Dave

 

[SDK^]

Our spare bedroom is used fairly regularly for when family and friends stay over.
The bed has been changed now to a more comfortable leather sleigh bed.

...and our 2nd spare bedroom is my office with a Sofa bed for more sleeps

 

[Haggisman]

They're not forced to move, are they?

Well, they sort of are... If they're suddenly being forced to make up a shortfall of £x which they can't afford, then they have 2 choices:

A) Move somewhere cheaper with less bedrooms
B) Don't pay the shortfall

Since there is a severe shortage of cheaper/smaller properties, option A isn't really an option for many people, leaving them with option B, meaning extra costs in administration, evictions, etc...

I do agree in principal with the "bedroom tax", and people on benefits having to live within their means (after all, people who aren't on benefits have to), however the way it was implemented was terribly short-sighted and poorly thought out!