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Thought I was reading my own post for a minute, I bought a house in exactly the same situation last year! No building regs approval suggests that not much of it will be up to scratch unfortunately, if it was just fire regs they needed to get approval then they would probably have done it...

Well I've started removing some of the plasterboard and floorboard, and what I've seen so far is a bit scary. My main concern so far is the state of the walls around the purlins on one side of the house, it looks like they're crumbling away beneath them!! It also looks like it may have been...

Actually I was completely aware it wasn't to building regulations, it was advertised as a 'study room' but had clearly been used as a bedroom, although it's not even legal as a study room. I was able to get a significant discount on the house because of the conversion, it went on the market at...

The lower purlins may be supported by struts, but I need to remove some of the plasterboard to find out (will do that this weekend). The upper purlins appear to have no supports (other than the gable walls), it's possible they were previously supported by the partition wall that runs most of the...

Evening, Last year I bought my first house, a nice detached 1930's place with a few problems due to the previous over ambitious DIYer, the biggest of which is the loft which isn't to building regulations, and basically needs ripping out and starting again (confirmed in another thread I...

Right, got some pics of the place, also done a basic plan of the current garden... There's a drop just in front of the path at the front, about 9" which I want to flatten out. I've mowed the grass in these pics, it's been 12+ months since it was last done, most of the...

I've already made a list of projects (:D), there's only one that may make a mess of the garden and that's reinforcing the attic floor, as scaffolding will most likely be required to get the steels through the wall. For any other projects I can store materials in the garage if required, there's...

Morning all, I need to replace the barrel locks on my conservatory doors (previous owner doesn't have any keys, no idea what's happened to them), and I was wondering whether it's possible to have 2 barrel locks that use the same key? I imagine you could change all the pins to match the other...

Hello! I've just gained possession of my first house, and I'm excitedly planning all my projects, top of the list is sort out the garden, which isn't terrible but I'm after advice on what I need to do with it. Currently the grass that's there is in a bit of a state, lots of moss (almost...

I will definitely be appointing a structural engineer (and an architect and a professional builder) when I get this lot sorted, I intend to do a proper job without cutting corners! I'm just after an idea of the work required at the moment to decide whether to do it now or a few years down the...