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You're too quick!!! :lol:

I assume that is the same as triso super 10? Is the alufoil available in the uk?

Not sure if I will get the foil passed with BC Will give it a try!

hi I am just writing up my specs for building regs and am trying to work out the best insulation to use. I will have 50 x 100mm roof rafters and I need as much head room in the roof as it is like a loft. Any ideas would be a great help. Cheers Guy

Just had a chat with BCO and he was very helpful. Said I would need a new application and would tell me everything that he needs to know once I send him the drawings. The insulation/heat loss/glazing will be the hardest to work out.

Had the plans already done. But the architect wanted £800 +vat for the regs on top of £500 for the regs plans and structural calcs. So I figured that I must be able to sit on the computer for a day on the approved regs site and find out everthing I need????

Hi Currently building an extension at home and have finished one section ie garage with bedroom above. The next bit was going to be conservatory but building regs said no because it didn't have enough glazing to the side walls. This now becomes an extension and not a conservatory which makes...

The white side that doesn't have the numbers on it.

Hi Not sure about the joists. But the plasterboard can be two layers of normal board or one layer of pink fire protected board, which I think is 15mm. I assume you are doing this because it is a garage below a habitable room, thus slowing fire spread from a vehicle etc. If not you should...

We wanted to change the original design, and I just didn't have the time to amend them. He has come up with what we wanted and is going to achieve this with certain specs that I wouldn't have been able to think of. We asked him to do the redesign and the building regs, but he has already used...

It gets worse! Just realised that the drawings are wrong because existing elevations refer to the site before I starting building. So now that I have finished building one part of the build, this now becomes the existing and not the proposed. What has this man done? NOTHING Really spoilt my...

Thankfully I haven't paid him anything yet! Just waiting for his response as to why I am being charged so much for just the planning drawings and getting nothing else. Like you say, I won't be paying anything!

I have the drawings for planning, which are Ok ish. He wants the the whole estimate for just those, and not the whole job for the estimate price.

The trouble is that I haven't got any tech drawings or specs yet, but he still wants all the money for just the drawings for planning applications.

It gets worse when I think about it! The architect is just handing over the plans for me to submit and pay the fees which are not included in the price. I bet he drives a Porsche, the b#####d! I'm not a happy bunny.

Been on to trading standards today and was told to quote the goods and services act 1982. This specifies that work must be done with care and skill. I don't think that he qualifies for that as he can't properly cut and paste his drawing onto my existing plans.You can see lines on the paper...

Richard I put in a full application for the whole plan. I have built one section already with no problems. The other section is just a bit more complicated with the roof design and how it attaches to the existing. This is why I went with an architect. We originally had approval for a...

Richard I got stuck on the spec side of it, the wife was pushing me to get someone to sort them out. He was the only person I could find locally to do them. If I carry on to spec stage it could be twice the estimate, that is just a licence to print money! Cheers Guy

Hi There are some additional expences like photocopying that were added. I just think that even though it might be an estimate, he is estimating the overall charges for the whole job as £600- £750 +vat so to charge me that for just the drawings which my five year old could do, is plain...

Hi Just thought I would run this by you all and see what you thought. I drew some plans myself and got them passed. I got a bit stuck on the building control side with my specifications so I thought I would employ an architect to see what he would come up with design wise and specs. I aggreed...