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For what its worth, the BCO said I could do pretty much what I want regarding bathroom fixtures as its not a new dwelling.

I'm keen to be able to read background information woody. Are you able to point me toward the appropriate document?

I did entertain the thought of not notifying but I have new structural openings too as well as alterations to drainage etc so thought I should.

I am doing this under a building control notice. I'm pretty sure that the door on the original bathroom was 30". The door to this room was an odd size (29" I think) but that needs bricking up now.

Thank god for that. I just fitted a 1050mm lintel. Looking at https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/540330/BR_PDF_AD_M1_2015_with_2016_amendments_V3.pdf page 17, I can't see a 686mm doorway. Does this only relate to new buildings or am I looking at the wrong...

We are moving the bathroom from one location to another. Is it permissible under building regs to fit a 27" door?

Good tip noseall.

What size opening should I cut to install a 27" door. I've got conflicting information - 788mm x 2051mm and 749mm x 2051mm.

Ok thanks woody

It's a 60's bungalow woody. Don't think there is a DPM.

I will be fitting a shower into a bathroom and want to embed the waste pipe into the floor. This will mean that the waste will exit the external wall either in the first or between the first and second blue courses. Is there anything wrong with this? Thanks

So the BCO visited today and as expected he pulled up the wall width between the door opening and the window opening. In case someone finds it useful the minimum wall width should be the width of the window opening + the width of the door opening divided by 6. So for me this was...

I have created a new structural opening 900mm wide in a cavity wall. I have 2off 100x65x1200 lintels above 150mm bearing either side. There is only a brick width between the new opening and an existing window so I wanted to check if the BCO will pull it up.

Is there a minimum distance between a window and a door opening for building regs? Built in brick. See attachment.

I think i'll check that out with the BCO cos it would certainly be easier than double joists.

Bco mentioned how heavy a stud wall is so I'm guessing he was thinking about load but also deflection if built on top of floorboards with a void underneath. Good idea to board on top of joists. Solves the problem of lots of ~300mm boards.

No sorry. Working in the opposite direction at the moment.

Even so, as a qualified plumber, he should have been able to find a suitable arrangement. Maybe your swan neck with a mcalpine WC-CON-EXT. Doesn't help your dilemma regarding payment though .

I bet it would only take you 20 minutes to fit that and remove that wood :)

There are so many ways that this could have been done properly quite easily. The swan neck that someone suggested earlier is one way. You can buy flexi right angled pan connectors from Screwfix. At the very least he could have realigned the pipe with a MULTIKWIK MKO100 abeit not very nice...