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Hi - sorry i mean building warrant. And yes one was a design person & one an architect that i had out re: potential drawings for submission if applying for a building warrant.

Ive posted previously. Adding a loo to existing utility room. Was going to remove external door which triggered warrant but have rejigged plans & simplified so keeping door & believe i can now do the work without warrant. Saving time & ££. Was being quoted £1500 for plans + warrant fee which i...

Planning on changing the utility room into a utility/downstairs toilet. Not much work needed - keeping mostly everything as is. Need the rear door bricked up and an opening under stairs created so we were planning on a brickie/joiner and plumber and doing joinery/tiling etc ourselves with my...

I will give the council a call this week - I need to check out some regs for converting utility to a loo/utility so will ask while im on. Thanks for the advice!

Hi Blup Thanks. I may remove plaster for a look to see. Will get a builder / joiner round for a quote - sounds a safer bet!

Hi! Looking for some advice. I have 2 cupboards under the stairs. One accessed from the hall & the other from the utility room. Im looking to block off the utility cupboard & open it up from the hallway. Hoping i am explaining this right. Are we able to just create a doorway where the wall is...

Thanks for the replies! I allowed him to plough on once you all reassured me. Actually very pleased now as it has freed up alot of space & i can see now how the den could shape up. And yes i think he had ££ in his eyes as he got £200 at the scrappy! Thanks again!

Thank you Nige. He's obviously got it into his head. Bored and likes a challenge... i let him potter about with odd jobs to keep him happy! My husband is not a handy man at all. We are looking to convert loft into a playroom / den for the kids next year. Is there any hazard to this? If he...

Hi Looking for advice please. My dad decided he was going to remove the water tank from my loft today and got straight to work before i had a chance to see. Im really nervous now ive looked that its asbestos. He says its lead and no health concern. I have a son with developmental delays so i...

Thank you. I actually dont think ive mentioned shower problems. Oops! I will get the service guy out and chat with him. Combi boiler downstairs. Combi shower is upstairs. Husband doesn't think we had issue with shower 1st year. But i can't be sure as our premie boy was born the week after showrr...

Is it at all possible to have a small utility / shower room with just a partition to separate them? Room is 3m x 3m roughly. From endless googling it seems there are regs that electricals would be an issue and even if you could work a way round this then you would still need a special type of...

Sorry I can't find any similar information via search. We have a 3 bed semi with 1 bathroom. Boiler is Vokera Unica 28HE. Was only 2 years old when we bought the house a few years ago so now 6 or so years old. We have added a small breakfast room with 1 radiator, a radiator in the utility and...

Hi I have bought some nice Moroccan Encaustic cement tiles online. They can be used on walls or floors. 20x20cm x 1.6cm. Anyhoo I've had a few people round to quote and it doesn't seem straight forward as to how to actually cut/fit them!? One guy wouldn't do job at all for fear of not being...

Hi - thanks for the replies! There is no problems internally at all. Above the lintel is render on outside and the room above is the bathroom. So it's not a problem if the 2 skins of the wall are separating? Thanks again and I will need to show my husband this (reluctantly) - he has won :-)...

Hi Im looking for some advice please. Ive attached a pic of our utility window from the outside. As you can see theres a whopping big crack. There is also a bit of a fine hairline crack on the render above where it looks like the lintel is... but can't capture that on camera well enough to...

Hi It would be great if someone could give me some advice. This past week I cant 'click clack' the waste in the bath... I have unscrewed the top plug and the mechanism below that should click up and down into place doesn't do that anymore... it pushes up and down but wont 'click'. Can you...