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    Garden room planning queries

    That's how they moved that well-known caravan, London Bridge, to America.
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    Can I dig up my pavement?

    Can I dig up the pavement? I don't know - it depends how strong you are, and on your stamina. What equipment do you have - pneumatic drill, or just a crowbar and a spade? Or did you mean to ask "May I dig up the pavement?"
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    Building regs for outhouse

    The big orange button is not normally there. If you pressed the Forums button it is not there - you have to select the particular forum you want and then it appears. But once you have had a look at a particular thread in that forum then it disappears again, and you have to start again. It's...
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    Smoke control areas and existing fireplaces

    Don't all dry logs start off as wet logs, until dried?
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    Smoke control areas and existing fireplaces

    It's surely a combination of the two that counts - ie the appliance and the fuel? If you burn old carpets and tyres in a fully-compliant stove then it will belch black smoke and be illegal. Or if you burn smokeless fuel or dried logs in an ancient range then it will burn cleanly and be compliant.
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    Ethernet between two houses

    We also are on a wifi/dish connection to a small mast on the other side of the valley, about 2 miles away in direct line of sight. The local provider said a good guide is whether you can see any windturbines - they always have excellent internet for remote control - and good access for...
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    Principle elevation (aka Building line)

    Is each block a house? Five are numbered, one is unnumbered - is that yours at the end? What do the colours signify? Where are the tree house and gazebo?
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    Garden office on ‘raised platform’

    "The height of things is generally measured from the highest point of the natural ground around it." "the raised platform will be > 30cm above the natural ground level at that point;" There's bit of a contradiction between those statements, or at least an ambiguity. The first states that the...
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    Building control inspection appointment

    Is that 25% of the entire roof, or just of the bit you are replacing - extension or wing, perhaps?
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    How much can you demolish when building an extension?

    There was a "Grand designs" programme recently featuring restoration of a collapsing pele tower. Some of the structure had already collapsed, and part way through a massive internal wall gave way. It was an exiting feature, as the team ran as the wall collapsed. The permissions must have been...
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    Garden Room / Garage

    I don't think putting your car on show in a glass case is a good idea. It would be better to build a rusty corrugated iron shack and pile a lot of old junk around it.
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    Log burner regulations

    250mm is 10 inches! I'm not surprised it costs £200 - cheap at the price, and must weigh a ton. Will the floor take the weight?
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    Extractor fan for cooker hood going into conservatory

    You are using language in a most peculiar way. To clarify, what does the "that" refer to? Do you mean a) the building regs of 2004 state that ducting into another room is acceptable, and there has been no change since? or b) there has been no change since 2004 such as to make ducting into...
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    Milking Parlour Cows Jumping

    We had the electricity people here last year doing routine checks on trees growing near power lines. The very helpful man said they have the power to trim branches to a safe distance, without permission if no one was around. We walked along the length of the wires and agreed a list of all the...
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    AD H - 'Roof' Rainwater drainage

    Where would the rain have gone before the building existed? :)
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    Outbuilding maximum area

    Criterion - singular Criteria - plural
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    Creating a flat roof

    Common sense tells me that could be lethal!
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    Building near a well

    The builder apparently thinks a borehole in some way "supports" a well - "a well has to be supported by several boreholes around it to support?" What do the boreholes do - relieve water pressure from a blocked-up well and gush water like when drilling for oil?
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    Summerhouse pp

    You mean unless it IS built of inflammable materials? You mean non-inflamable?
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    Zero a digital electricity meter

    These claim to have been zeroed: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/100A-Electricity-meter-OFGEM-single-phase-electric-watt-KWH-ZEROED-/362919912127
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