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Yes the windows are the other side fo the wooden frams and all the openings move away from the frames.

They are wooden frames with metal windows (triple glazed) The frames are about 10cm deep. They are Velfac 200 series http://www.velfac.co.uk/Homes/Modern_VELFAC_200

Thanks John, I am old enough to remember the good old days :) and I often use a bradawl which my dad gave me years ago, trouble is that due to the corner position I cant get it close enough to make a straight hole, I don't want to split the frames so I really want a decent guide hole before I...

Hi I have moved into a new house and we want to fix roller blinds to all the windows and doors, The windows have wooden frames and I am planning to fix the blinds directly to the frames as I think that will look neater and I an place them more accurately. I asked Velfac if it was OK to fix to...

Hi David, that excellent information thanks for posting. Do you have any photos of your building that you could share either here or via email? Thanks. Tim

Guess what I still haven't started the summer house rebuild !!! Just starting to think about it again, we had to demolish the old building as it had become dangerous and we were worried about visiting children playing in it and it falling down on them. I was looking at regulations on...

Thanks for confirmation that running cables with Coax is fine, and also for all the other useful advice. I am putting double runs in most room and 6 in the the study and 3 in the lounge.

I need to install some Cat 6 Cable in a new house, in the past when I have done this I just used any void that was available as both times it was an old house and I didn't have much choice. This time the house is new and still being built, the electrician has already installed most of the...

:D I did think about this but wasnt sure about its safety and lifespan, and I think it may be hard to handle the end in a tidy way.

Now that is nearly perfect BUT ... I need to be able to go round some corners so I need something flexible or which can be joined to go round corners. I have edited my original post to add the need for it to be flexible.

Hi I am looking for a small bore duct/conduit (what's the difference?) for running network cables in a new build house. I want to use a duct so that I would be able to replace the cables at some point in the future. Something thats flexible so that I can have a single run for each cable and...

Well I still haven't started the summerhouse replacement but I am soon going to have to demolish the existing building as its dangerous. Can anyone advise me if I face any planning problems with this summerhouse, I wasn't planning on asking for permission as I was going to rebuild to look the...

DD, the question came up after they had shut on Friday so we haven't asked them yet. We are going to call them on Monday. The regs seem to have been written on the assumption that the ground floor would be the main living floor, but in our new house this isn't true. However both floors...

Hi Freddy thanks for the info, I am not trying to avoid safety just trying to find out what the regs mean. However I am not going to install sprinklers simply because they are expensive and very ugly. The g/f tells me that fire windows cant have restrictors that limit the openings...

We are in the process of building a new house that has bedrooms on the ground floor and a living area above. The front of the ground floor is at the same level as the ground outsides but the back is underground (house is built into a slope). I am trying to work out what the building regs mean...

OK thanks no great hurry as it will probably be August before I can start this. Thanks fro your help.

Hi Customtimber, H 4.8m (ground to apex of roof) W 3.5m L 5m and there is a 3m leanto extension on one end which is 2.8m at the highest point. It will be built of timber with a corrugated iron roof, I am planning to insulate all walls the floor and ceiling. It will...

Just to close out my original question, we managed to start the work in March this year and so didnt have to deal with the prmission lapsing. Its good to know that there is now a way of extending the permission.

Customtimber, thanks for the additional info. The test hole I dug was about 1.5m and that was the deepest I could go with the hand auger I was using (and to get that deep I had to dig a hope about .5 m so that the auger handle would work below ground level! However I know that the...

My garden was once used to extract chalk for making bricks and as such has be dug out to a depth of up to about 10m in some places. On one boundary the depth of my garden is approx 2-3m below my neighbours. The bank is completely unsupported and at a fairly steep angle. The garden has...