Recent content by charlm

and just to verify what i have done so you are fully informed, my front bedroom is the full width of the house (excluding stairs) and is 17' wide, i have partitioned at the 10' mark creating a larger bedroom and a box bedroom, i have then extended my landing into the back bedroom via 4' to...

i currently live in a council property and am allowed to modify it upstaits to turn it into a 3 bedroomed house but the (supposed) tech inspector came out to look at it and see about adding an additional window (the window will measure 3' wide by 4' high), now he has told me that i need planning...

i have never removed these before but i am having a new toilet and basin, and didnt want to change the bath as there is nothing wrong with it, except 2 horrible hand grips, if i remove these will there be a hols left??? if so ia there anything i can buy to cover these up??? any suggestions...

it is still a council house and as we make the modifications someone from contact liasons/quality control has to come out and see regularly how we are progressing, i have a different one each time but this is the first one who picked up this, but he also picked up flaws with items on the house...

i'm struggling to find building regulations that i dont have to pay for, what is the minimum doorway width i can put on a bedroom. i have recently had some work done, and one of the doorways leading to one of the bedrooms only measures 2'1" wide, when i had the plans drawn up and requested this...

try wickes they do narrower ones, we have just put a doorway in a stud partition wall, we used 47 x 47 timber, 12.5mm plasterboards and then the plaster skim on the top brought it level.