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I would just fix soem hangers in place to be 100% sure

Personally it would bother me, in my eyes you should see an equal amount of frame on all windows. If you do accept it just ensure you dont look at it everyday and think 'its a shame'

Hi, We are having an extension build, just got upto damp and I noticed the inner leaf is totally level, but the outer brickwork runs out and is 40mm higher at one end, over an 11 meter wall. Obviously where we have no openings it would be noticable but we have some large sliding doors...

We just did the same on an extension, we used reclaimed tiles, looks 100% better, cost a few thousand but glad I did it

We had a similar situation, but instead of replacing "most" doors with firedoors BC allowed us to have smoke alarms in "most" rooms. So could be talking about meeting the regs in different ways Hope it helps!

Hi, I am having a couple of Velux Veluxs fitted, the roofer is not using the 'transverse drainage gutter' as he said its for counter battern roofs only. Ours has horizontal batterns only on the rafters. Whilst i agree cutting the felt for the gutter does seem odd, but any thoughts? thanks

I can only speak as I found. Having used both the council are far more helpful, I felt had our interests at heart (not profit) and made as many vists as we wanted (we use them for advice), the private firm did nto wish to visit then wanted to charge extra for advice. The council did charge...

Thanks to all for your responses, I still feel the BCO should justify with calc's that it ok, as it was his decision alone to move away from the regulations. I am only concerned as looking at the regulations, a strip foundation should overlap 300mm or twice the step. Trench fill overlap...

I have asked the BC company, they have refused saying "in their professional opinion its fine" and they are providing the certificate. Upon checking both the 'approved documents' and 'NHBC guidance' all state >1m. It's a concern as not sure if to build on top, as it will be expensive to...

Hi, My builder was constructing some steps into a trench fill foundation. The building inspector (private company) said the overlap had to be 300mm, so the builder made the overlaps 300mm. Reading the Approved building regaulations they say minimum 1m overlap. When questioning the...