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I'm about to get a new door opening made between the kitchen and dining room for a double door. The plumber who's doing the heating system next week does general building work too, and will put in the lintel and chop the old brickwork out ready for me. Looking online and in the shops, I...

I've finally received a response to a FOI request for the details, apparently the restrictions come from this section of the original planning application for the development... From what I can work out, Class I of the 1962 Order was "Development within the curtilage of a dwellinghouse"...

I found 2 similar jobs in the house I've just bought, there's 2 floodlights, both running into the house using a bit of bog standard 1mm flex with a twisted and taped joint half way, terminating on a plug top with a 13a fuse :shock: Been there for years, and up until 18 months ago all via an...

Used to work on similar stuff regularly, most BT telephone exchanges have similar vintage installations, full of busbar chambers, massive heating/lighting contactors and big old azzy filled switches. The only thing I disliked about the old installations was tap off systems. Who ever invented...

That's good advice, thanks a lot. There's a load of disposable asbestos removal suits at work so I'll use that as a precaution. Here's a picture of upstairs, the plaster didn't survive very well, so if it was leaking into the main bedroom it can't have done the last owner any good...

I will grab a picture tomorrow from upstairs where I've started pulling some plaster off, the bricks look different where the flue is if that helps As the house has had cavity wall insulation not so long ago should I be looking at filling the flue with some insulating material before capping it?

In the process of doing a complete strip down on my house, it's a mid 70s 3 bed semi. The gas fire in the living room looked about the same sort of vintage so I've stripped it out in favour of an electric one, mainly for show as I've got central heating. The flue is built into the party wall...

How long has it been there? Has it been opened since fitting? Without seeing pictures I would say high resistance on the L terminal which caused it to overheat, I see that so often

Excellent idea, it seems others have had joy by sending FOI requests with regards to Article 3/4 directions. Reading the email I got from the planning department, they treated it as me wanting advice on a planning application before submission which is chargeable. Hopefully the FOI request...

I worked on the Olympic park in the run up and during games time, in the broadcast centre. Electricians came and put a load of double sockets in the corridors (SWA in galv conduit, looked ridiculous) About 2 weeks later, 'plumbers' came and put water points directly above/to the side (no...

Can it be true though that there's a complete lack of PD rights? How far would one be expected to go with it? Should I be applying for retrospective permission for the small shed, greenhouse, etc that's in the garden?

Bugger Found this in one of the officer reports for an identical house in my street This was for a full planning application for a conservatory. I can't understand why the PD rights have been removed, it seems like they were short of work in the planning department and a few quid short.

Thanks for the reply I'm working from their planning map here - http://maps.coventry.gov.uk/connect/?mapcfg=planning If you type in 'Langbank Avenue' and zoom out, all of the private housing estates in the area built after about 1960 are listed as NPD areas. Not surprisingly, this doesn't...

The house I've just bought shows up on the planning portal map as in a 'no permitted development' area, which apparently means some or all of the permitted development rights have been removed. It seems to be quite common as many of the other estates in the general area are the same. It's a...

That's the sort of information I was after, there's many conflicting reports online. Thanks for your pointers everyone. I'll give them a bell when I have the keys and go from there, and report back with my experiences. Nowhere on the council website gives any proper information about...

Does anyone who isn't part P registered have any experience of the whole building control business? I pick up the keys to my house on Thursday, and as I'm not moving in straight away, I plan on rewiring it while I've got the chance. Already have an MK sentry board full of RCBOs and all the...

Down this end, the only mains cable we have is CNE....I've never heard of a fault repair using 4 core. SNE service cable is hidden away in a corner and hardly ever used :shock: So it's quite common in this area for a 'TNS' main to become 'TN-C-S' for a short run where there has been an...

You'd also need to contact the DNO or supplier as your supply would probably need upgrading and would become a non-domestic supply rather than domestic.

I did think it sounded too good to be true that they'd offered you an isolator for free! As I understand it, fitting an RCD would need to be done by an electrician as it could start tripping due to any existing faults with the customers installation. We're not allowed to touch a customers...

I know it varies from area to area, but in my part of WPD, we have been recently told that anything past the cutout, including tails, meter board and box etc, is the responsibility of the supplier or the customer. It also says in documentation that when we fit an RCD it is then adopted by the...