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Ok, Work is going to commence under a building notice and will be checked by our BCO along the way. Structural calcs detail roof construction, steel sizes and positions etc. We have asked a few questions to the structural engineer but not tried again as it seems to take an age for an email...

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Yep, full plans gone through all the rigmarole of it with planning permission. BCO assigned and structural calcs aswell but they don't mention how the piers are to be reinforced. Thanks

Hello all, Hoping to get some advice on a few building questions before the new work starts. We are extending above our single brick garage (with double brick piers every 2.4ish M) In order to create the 100mm cavity above we need to build out the existing piers to support an 8M long 203 X...

Thanks for the reply. Looks like ours will be supporting a similar loading above, maybe Less. I'll take a look but I'm guessing at maybe £300 for a 3300mm one.

Looking to install a 2.8M electric roller garage door in a double brick construction wall that will be built. Which lintel is the correct one? We currently have a box with outer leaf type but are making the opening wider. Thanks

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We had a retaing wall built in the garden in 2015 out of 7N dense blocks on their side. I placed polythene behind the wall going down to the footings. This was followed by terram which I formed into a channel that was filled with about a foot deep and wide of pea gravel with a 4" land drain...

Just to update, we got planning permission after submitting the plans that my better half drew up on AutoCAD with minimal fuss. There were some comments about the width looking out of proportion on the permission form but nothing major. We're currently drawing up the building regulations...

This sounds like what we would like to do. As I said some of the plans I've seen that have been approved on the council's site don't seem like you'd need a degree to produce them. The plans that my beloved has made are only missing dimensions and annotations and they'll be be ample. 3.4m, what...

I like your optimism but if we go full width and one brick back at the front the council will be having none of it. If the planning guy I messaged printed off our plans and took it to the review meeting it's on his radar already and he's going to make it personal in getting it rejected. I'm not...

Thabks again, My wife is a design engineer and is auto cad trained she has done some basic plans for the purposes of the initial enquiry which need to be modded. Looking at some of the applications made via our council I don't think we would struggle to replicate the designs we've seen. With...

Thanks for the reply. A few people have now suggested the timber inner skin, this seems to make sense to me and would be less labour intensive and costly than a block inner skin. Am I right in thinking that this would eradicate the need for a cavity as the studwork could be insulated...

Thanks guys, Hindsight is a wonderful thing isn't it. I am in complete agreement that I shouldn't have bothered with an email of the draft plans following my conversation today. So I rang the planning officer and asked about the next steps regarding the plans and to further explain/ justify...

Thanks again, Hopefully I've attached the SPD document which applies to our local council. I see what you're saying and won't include that in the discussion, it's just frustrating that the cost and complexity of the extension will be unnecessary high for a lot smaller gain in room. The...

Thanks for your helpful reply, I appreciate that I need to include a lot more detail and will do so if things progress. The document is the generic "extending your home" planning document which speaks of subservient extensions and I can see some of the logic but not the width reduction. I...

Hello again, looking to getting things progressing on the extension. So from last time, building control were happy with all foundations and a new small foundation has been placed where the small garage access door stands to the required depth to build upon. We submitted our plans to the...

Thanks for the reply, it was more a question as to which is the best financially viable method to build the extension. For the cost of calculations and steelwork I might as well cut the garage floor and do the inner skin in blockwork, but was unsure.? The only new foundations going in are in...