Hi all.
I have rather a challenging renovation task on my hands at the moment.
The property is a 1930s end terrace, last touched in the 70/80s. The previous owner had a fetish for taking walls out and has knocked out the wall between lounge and hallway and a knock through between lounge and dining room.
Both walls were brick supporting and had large wooden beams installed to take the weight above once the walls had been knocked through.
What I want to do is rebuild the walls with stud work but with thicker uprights of about 120mm.
Would I be in contravention of building regs by just leaving the current beams in place and then studding across the openning or would I need to get the walls rebuilt using concrete block?
Also, when first built, the house had a stone and brick built bay window with pitched slate roof. At some point the bay has been replaced with a full UPVC one with flat roof. I want to take this UPVC bay out and reinstate a brick/stone bay in line with the original. Will I need building regs. and building control inspection of this?
Many thanks.
I have rather a challenging renovation task on my hands at the moment.
The property is a 1930s end terrace, last touched in the 70/80s. The previous owner had a fetish for taking walls out and has knocked out the wall between lounge and hallway and a knock through between lounge and dining room.
Both walls were brick supporting and had large wooden beams installed to take the weight above once the walls had been knocked through.
What I want to do is rebuild the walls with stud work but with thicker uprights of about 120mm.
Would I be in contravention of building regs by just leaving the current beams in place and then studding across the openning or would I need to get the walls rebuilt using concrete block?
Also, when first built, the house had a stone and brick built bay window with pitched slate roof. At some point the bay has been replaced with a full UPVC one with flat roof. I want to take this UPVC bay out and reinstate a brick/stone bay in line with the original. Will I need building regs. and building control inspection of this?
Many thanks.