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There you go - the prescriptive "should" again! I quoted "climbing" from another poster. It's metaphorical not literal. Obviously you normally only open a door reasonably sufficient to get through, consistent with your size and what you are carrying. If a door opens into a corner it's harder to...

Whichever way the door hangs, if it is left slightly adjar then you get a slim glimpse into the room from outside. If the door is in the middle of the wall the glimpse will be about equally revealing either way. If jammed into a corner the glimpse will be of a bit of wall but the doorway will be...

So you might have an electrified fence, alsatian guard dogs, alarm link to the police and a night watchman, but if you had a downstairs loo with a window too small to climb through you would still have a security risk? I didn't realise Building Control had such a wide-ranging remit - when did...

We are old-fashioned and use plates for eating off. I've accidentally tried once just pouring spag bol straight on the mat but found it kept running off the edge. Is it safe to eat off the table?

It's easier to say than "Sleeve nuts won't work with this kind of door because... and because ... " :)

I can't see any necessary relationship between the side boundary and the length of a rear extension. Our side boundary is about 200 metres away. So we could build an extension 201 metres long at the rear?

So if you left the original bit of roof in place and stopped the new roof at the 2m line with a small gable that would be OK?

When we moved into our house two openings at one end of the kitchen had wooden shutters with no glazing. It was the old dairy and deliberately cold and well-ventilated. I put in normal (glazed) windows. :)

The problem appears to be where to put the scaffolding. It sounds as if the scaffolding is to provide access for work on the inner wall of the passageway, rather than simply uprights to support scaffolding along the front and back of the house? If so, then the scaffolding clearly has to be set...

"You are replacing/repairing more than 25 per cent of the roof area, in which case, the roof thermal insulation would normally have to be improved." That surely means 25% of the total roof area? If it only means the percentage of the bit of roof that is being repaired, then by definition that...

They sound a bit like keel bolts in an old yacht. These have no reliable means of inspecting them, so they should be extracted periodically and checked and replaced as necessary

Fair enough. But that does produce some potentially bizare results with a bendy road and a very long road frontage. A house facing the point of a U-bend for example could have a back garden with a long road "frontage" entirely behind the straight building line as defined.

Here's another moot point: Is the "line you can't be build in front of" a straight line, projected up to the edge of the property in each direction, or can it be a curved line following the bends in the road? Example:- we live in an isolated house on a small country lane. The house is set...

A bit springy to walk on though! On that argument why have any joists - the floorboards take the weight. :)

That's the word - thanks. Also used when cutting a hole to put in a staircase.

Why is there a gap with the joist cut away? Has a section been cut out for some reason, or has it always been like that? Wouldn't it have been a better idea to put in sub-joists (whatever they are called ?) across the ends of the cut off-joist fixed to the two adjacent joists, and then put in a...

3 metres square is 9 square metres.

Why not just chop off the projecting corner of the upper tread? It looks really odd, impedes the new entrance, and that particular tread is longer than the others anyway because it is at an angle, not perpendicular to the wall.

It's gravity that holds the roof in place.

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