Recent content by JennyC

D'oh, yes that seems a fairly obvious way to get it signed off. Although I don't actually intend to be in there with the door shut often, I'm also curious as to how stuffy it might get if I'm trying to work on a computer for a couple of hours. So I may end up not having a door in the end anyway...

I'm planning on doing a rear extension and as such, I will be left with what was the old kitchen (around 3m x 3m) as an inner room with no openable windows. The plan is to split it into a 1m wide corridor that will allow access between the current entrance hallway and the new extension, leaving...

Thanks all, In the end I went for only a 100mm projection for the chimney breast, so I built it out of lightweight concrete blocks off the floor slab and used some wall ties secured to the existing inner blockwork wall. It worked out cheaper materials wise than going for a frame and board...

I'm looking to build a chimney breast in my lounge to take a wood burning stove, only a small one, around 4kw output maximum. Looking at the building regs regarding solid fuel appliances in AD J, I can't get my head around the closest point at which you can use combustible materials...

Sorry to bump an old topic but I am trying to install an RSJ / UB and I am pretty much in exactly the same situation as the original poster. A structural engineer has designed our steel for us. Although we told him we wanted to remove our wall completely with no piers if possible, his intial...