Recent content by frankg25

Good effort sticking up for the establishment there, don't get me wrong I'm not critising the need for regulation - I'm critising the nature of the publication know as Part (J). there's no logic or layout to it it skips freeely from one aspect to another and then goes back and refers to other...

After doing research for putting in a wood burner I decided to literally print out part J of the building regs and read it slowly in my own time. It looks like a GCSE mock exam paper - they just sow up everything to be as complex as it can be. Why do they use such dumb grammar? It's...

I didn't think you could use a flible pipe as a flue? I thought it had to be rigid ta

Whats the best type of compact wood burner on the market, any ideas? most heating showroom places are always trying to push their own ones. Also alot of places are willing to install stoves with little regard to building control - has anyone else noticed this? Cheers!

when I say chimney I mean chimney breast inside the house

I have spoken to the local council builidng control dept and they said to rebuild a chimney how it was before after it had been removed by a previous owner does not require building control noticing. Would they put this in writing I wonder? because without it in writing it means nothing...

Thanks for the advice. do you know what jambs are and what they actually do? I thought it would just be a case of simply rebuilding the brickwork?

thanks for the replies I really appreciate it. What does "tying" the new breast in mean? I assume from the plastered up holes in the ceilings that the previous breast was 118 x 41cm. I've spoken to a few builders and chiney people who have both been keen to start with but as the...

I have a 1900's terraced house and the previous owners have removed the chimney breasts - possibly for a more "modern look" leaving the stack intact in the loft. I would like to rebuild the breast and install a wood stove in the living room - hardly rocket science you would have thought? Do I...