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4 floors

no its not a separate dwelling, it is exactly the same thing as was there before. the rooms are bedrooms/offices, on ground and ist floor. the ground floor has french windows to the garden and the 1st floor has an exit door to outside to steps going down to the garden thanks!

thank you. Actually I did put a cooker hood in but it goes up the old chimney and the B.I. man did not like that - he said it must be ducted to fresh air. I suppose there are chimney liners, but it would expensive and dfifficult to put one in now.

I have just had a kitchen built in what was an old bedroom, with a big window to one side and and arch to a dining room the other, and of a window in the dining room. The kitchen installer (one of the big ones) said no mechanical vent was necessary, as the kitchen opened to the outside. The B.I...

my bulder has built a new two floor extension, with 2 internal doors to the main house. . The B.I inspector says they should be fire doors, with 30 minute fire resistance. The builder says fire doors are only needed to garages and similar sites, and anyway the building is a listed building and...