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I dont have a picture on me, I do have a copy of a plan of the ground floor. The house is 1890s or older.

I have two supporting walls either side of my staircase. In one wall is a door too storage underneath. The other side sounds hollow in a door shape, solid everywhere else. Can I just swap the door over, sealing up one hole and cutting out a new one?

So I should expect conditional approval? Or is it the kind of thing they ask for halfway through a build? The lintel is across my kitchen so I'm thinking about the mess/difficulty and the possible time and cost if they have to do something halfway though my build

The architect/SE has put 'check existing lintel' on the plans. He says, there's not much extra load so he's happy. But... 1. Does it mean it's MY responsibility to instruct the builder to check? 2. The councils responsibility to ask me? 3. What actually has to happen to check a lintel...

Wall, floor, ceiling celotex. Electric heating would probably blow my amperage. If it becomes an issue I might get a small stove, or upgrade the power which I'd like to avoid until I can afford a hot tub installation.

Not sure I get you. If I get a 3rd party to do it they'll give me a compliance certificate. If the planning control people sign it off they'll give me the same. I have some of the basic test kit, enough to tell me the circuits are good. I'll have to do a bit of maths to make sure I get the...

I was hoping to avoid running something to the CU, I can it's certainly not complicated from where my CU is, just takes longer. I'm not sure I agree that I can't run it as a switched spur. I'm often running the same stuff (TV, box + powertool) when I do DIY in the garden off an existing...

It's radial. Office loads: 2 double sockets, likely a TV chrome cast or OTT box and occasionally a power tool. One or two lights. The RCD and a switched spur actually is just so I can isolate the office if I trip the breaker ever. CU the same for the lights and sockets.

I'm looking to cable up an external office. All the current kitchen sockets are in use, but found this under a kitchen counter. I think I can use this old socket, put an RCD switch on either end (in kitchen or in office) and then just lay the cable and connect it up. If I put a lighting...

I'm converting my bathroom into a smaller bathroom and a study room. I'm happy with most of the plumbing and building work, apart for moving and adding a radiator - moving the bathroom one off one wall and to another and then adding a radiator to a new wall. I'm happy to get this done by a...

My large spare room is used by number one child. Looking to split it in half and create and second door for a nursery for number 2 child. I'm fine withe removal and addition of stud wall. But, one if the rooms won't have an external window. Do I have to get one added for UK regs and child...