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Planning ahead for a kitchen central island, with in an ideal world extracting either into the disused chimney flue, or to the side wall. Of course, the joists go the wrong way for that. They are relatively large however - 8" at 12-14" centres, for a ~3m span. The whole ceiling will be down...

Thanks all - that's really useful information. The price differential here is staggering!

~42m^2 kitchen/dining room, L-Shape, big sliding doors on one end. Late 30s house. Going to have screeded subfloor with UFH. Want herringbone style top layer. Probably oak. Option a) Engineered blocks glued down. Sounds more stable. Option b) Reclaimed solid blocks. Might look better for...

They're total horse:censored:. The EPC for the house I bought completely missed the fact it had been cavity insulated (despite it being noted on the council building control website, and visible holes where it'd been done). I had to get them to re-state it, as I needed a 'D' to qualify for...

This. In my case, the "extension" is really just rationalising a structure that's already there. You get credited with the glazing area it covers - but not for the fact it's currently really bad glazing. I.E: if I built the same extension attached to a different part of the room, I could...

In case anyone else walks this road : there is some software (downloadable from rusfa.com) which will do the calculations if you feed it the data. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the fact that on its sums, I don't even need to replace all the single glazed windows - the improvements...

Thanks both, that's great stuff.

Good point, he did and it's in the kitchen drawer somewhere. Thanks. I don't mind paying for stuff where there's actual specialist skill and/or equipment required. When 'calibrated and adjusted to be energy efficient' seems to amount to 'wave imaginary magic wand, charge fee, issue...

The 25m^2 is elsewhere in the house, sadly. I may work backwards through the SAP worksheet. Since the values for the majority of the sections will be the same, they'll just cancel out so I don't actually need to be accurate. I'm reluctant to spend money proving something that seems so...

Extension with over-sized windows. When I've done this previously, BCO allowed area-weighted calculation based on the floor area of the final room (25% floor area of room + extension). Seemed reasonable to me as the spirit of 25% is clearly for the actual living space. This time round...

We're having an extension to a room reconciled slightly, with an increase to floor area of, oh, 7m^2. Building Control has this wonderful inclusion on their queries, with regards to our (gas) heating: confirm the existing system will be calibrated and adjusted to be energy efficient and a...

We're having a small extension + kitchen/dining room wall taken out to make one open plan space. The existing building (1938) has mostly vented timber flooring, though in the kitchen a small area is concrete (and I suspect under the cabinets is, too). As ever, the flooring has competing...

Oh, there's pages and pages of detail about other connections, and a blanket 'get the builder to call me if anything is unclear'; but having zero experience I'm merely trying to ascertain what might be normal and how dumb my questions are.

I have a few questions about how structural beams are connected for a project I'm doing. I have all the structural calculations, padstones, joints from a SE, I'm not putting the beams in myself - this is quite probably obvious to any decent builder, I'm just interested to understand - not least...

So my mission to replace old single glazed steel windows continues. Our single glazed windows, unless I'm much mistaken, are like [1]. They are odd-leg frames, in imperial sizes, where the long-leg extends 1/2" more than the short. I am intending to replace them with [2], in I assume in a...

Ok - I might search on those too to get a comparison quote too; currently minded towards the duration royales as they have slightly nicer handles and are slightly slimmer so the other half prefers them. The windows that we currently have, some have a small openers at the top (see pic windows by...

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