Some great work here.
Where abouts in Warwickshire are you? I'm in the process of buying a house in Rugby that needs a lot of work doing. Do you have any tradesmen you would recommend from good work & reasonable cost?
How did you go about getting the steels done? Did you get someone in to sort it out from beginning to end (including calculations, drawings, submitting to BR, installation etc), or did you organise any separate bits yourself, or do any of the work yourself? Would you do the same again? How much did it cost?
I'm asking as I need a similar bit of work done, and trying to decide on the best way to do it!
I got a structural engineer to come look and do steel design
Builder to build
Building inspector to sign off.
In retrospect I would get the builder to open up the reveals of the building and show what's there then get the steels specified (if I had/knew a good builder). This would potentially save getting overspecced steel work. On the long length of larger steels there is two tied together but only one is taking weight.
My only slight concern with the steels is they don't look prestressed to take the weight of one section of roof, which potentially could cause sagging at a later stage if weight is applied . (sub 10mm, might cause a crack in plaster say). Building control spent all of 2 minutes looking at it and thought it was OK.
In terms of locality I'm about 10mins away from Warwick centre but a lot of the work I've had done is from tradesmen in redditch, Halesowen, Coventry.
For cost
£300 structural engineer
£2.7k builder steel work
£216 building control
Also going to cost a further £850 to get the rest of the large open room plastered/skimmed and a section of ceiling reboarded (I also had quotes of 1.1k and 1.8k for plastering).
Edit: if you want some tradesmen ping me an email and I can send some (probably best after it's all done to check they are kosher!) . I generally use ocuk on my phone. Cheers.
One I would recommend to avoid is British gas!!