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I’m going to take my chance with what building control say. If I gotta sling them, then so be it…. It’s worth a try!

Yes it’s permitted development. I’m getting building control in (even though I don’t technically need too?) just to make sure I’m building it right….as long as everything else is up to scratch, then I’m happy. After 7 years, I could apply for a certicate of lawfulness anyway?

What if I fit double glazed pains in?

Everybody wants to save- and recycling windows is a sensible thing!!!! Since posting this, I’ve done a lot of research and you can put together secondary glazing EASILY!!!!!! The trouble with this forum is it’s full of ney sayers and jobbing builders …. Things CAN be done sensibly at a...

That’s all double Dutch to me. It’s an external room that I’m building out of a brick garage. My archictect said install secondary glazing which will be fine. Any ideas on that? Cheers

Not an option. Can’t afford it.

Hi there, Just as the title says- what do I have to do to get building regs to accept the old CRITTALLS in a new build. Thanks Mark

One thing that I will do, is extend it in wood only. Saves the need for mucking around with the wet stuff during Jan, the foundation issue, and keeping it easily insulated at that end.

I’ve carefully read through the comments. The main issue that has been raised (aside from my early comments on foundations) are about the fact it’s a single skin and that will need addressing from an insulation/damp perspective… all of which is easily done with batten, circular saw, tyvek and...

You haven’t read all the thread. It looks sounds. If you can enlighten me with anything else then I’d be grateful, but anymore pseudo dick Emery jokes will be ignored (ps I liked dick emery, but poor impersonators won’t be tolerated) Quite honestly, I’m really suprised at all the...

You haven’t read all the thread. It looks sounds. If you can enlighten me with anything else then I’d be grateful, but anymore pseudo dick Emery jokes will be ignored (ps I liked dick emery, but poor impersonators won’t be tolerated)

You’re a legend mate!! It is, as you say, a single!! AND my shabby measurements with a small level were wrong too. So I took several new levels and they were all straight. It looked ****ed I think because the patio has got a big fall on it and was throwing my eyes out….. you’re...

It can’t be as interior straight, outside sloping, and from the side it’s too wide….

No idea what you mean…. There’s an awful lot of people on here so it seems, who talk bxllox and think we should listen. Total trolls. If only they had a brain to give a qualified anwser…..

Yes, that old beer fridge has been through thick and thin with me. Bought it for £7 over 10 years ago down the boot sale. . Yes, Roof going to be replaced. Crack going to be cut out and putting in salvage 50’s Crittall French doors. It’s going to be an ancillary room. I want to put a...

What’s interesting is that the inner skin (double brick garage) doesn’t seem to have moved…. I’ve cut down bushes in front of it. If you look at the interior brickwork (and exterior) it all looks totally sound to me. The verticals are all correct. Can’t understand why earlier...

Love all the fancy technical knowledge you have quoted. Justify your explanation then you might have a bit of credibility……

Hello all, I have a garage which I’m going to make into a family games room. I’m diy-ing it! Have a few questions that hopefully can be answered here. 1) existing garage has leaning brickwork- just movement that I can work with as is? You’ll note there is a crack in the middle. Going...

Hi all, DIY novice here. Looking for a way forward with altering a full height UPVC conservatory. It’s got full length windows in and it’s bloody cold! Is there a straightforward way of removing the windows and in filling a material that goes say 1m up from the ground, and replacing...