Recent content by Lawson101

Sounds to me like your robbing yourself of increasing the value of your home, your doing all the neccessary to make it a habitable room compliant with building regulations but because its storage your right in thinking you don't need it. My advice is to pay for the work to be done under...

Ther is no minimum height however you do need 2M clearance over the pitch of the stairs

Do consider that Building regulations aside, the kitcehn is a high risk area and should a fire start in there anyone in the upper room will be trapped! Also protected fire escapes, need to stop the passage of smoke, though I'm sure you'll gave fitted an interlinked smoke dectector to landing and...

you can do it on a notice, always worth letting them know exactly what your doing, as a property surveyor may pick up an it when you come to sell. Basically as long as the plumbing is right and you fit an extractor fan you can't go far wrong

Well our original BCO passed it fine, then his superior came around and said it couldn't be passed as he couldn't see how the tile was suitably fixed! The tile is a double roman pantile

Having a problem with a project i'm managing in that the roofer hasn't left a wide enough tile to the side of the velux window. The BCO will not approve the tile slither for fear of in adequate fixing. We used leadmate to fix them down the side drainage verge and still the BCO is not happy...