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We have a 5m x 5m conservatory (double glazed glass roofed) which gets very hot in the summer (even though we have roof vents) with the additional problem that glare from the sun is also almost unbearable for most of the day in the summer. Clearly roof blinds would be a good (albeit maybe...

I'm handling the building reg submission for an extension to my daughter's house consisting of both ground floor extension and loft conversion. I can easily show that we comply with L1B for the ground floor extension using the area-weighted approach. However, I am having some difficulty in...

Hi I have a Reillo RDB burner in a Warmflow boiler which has started to malfunction in that it doesn't light up and the lockout light comes on. I believe myself to be a reasonably competant engineer and have regularly serviced the boiler myself but this time I am unsure what to do next...

I know that sockets should be 450mm above floor level, but is there anything in BS7671 (or best practice etc) which states how far down from the ceiling FCUs (Fused Connection Units) on the main ring should be ? Thanks Ron

Thanks Guys ... as a qualified electrical engineer but not C&G qualified and NICEIC certified, I feel that I am competant to do the installation myself. However, my building control guy has said that he won't issue the completion certificate without a NICEIC certificate and registration. So, I...

I have just added a new room alongside my existing lounge and wish to extend the ring main from the lounge to the new room. The wires in the lounge are inaccessible so the easiest way to do this would seem to be as follows: - Convert an existing 2 way 13 amp outlet in the lounge into a...

I'm clearing the site for my daughter's new extension for which the structural engineer has specified a raft foundation to handle the difficult soil condiitions (6ft of clay!). He has specifed on the drawings that there sould be min 225mm of 'type-2 fill' under the raft. We have a lot of...

My daughter (call her D) is in the final planning stages of a first floor extension which will abut about 1.5m of a wall of a neighbour's (call them N) house and about 7m of a garden wall both of which are on N's side of the boundary line. N's back garden is about 4ft higher than D's house so...

We're digging the footings for my daughter's single storey, timber framed extension (3.5m x 7m) and the architect/structural engineer has specified a concrete raft foundation with steel reinforcement and a ring beam around the edge (presumably because strip foundations would need to be over 2...

My daughter is having a new extension built and her architect is recommending chipboard or engineered wood directly on top of 100mm insulation laid on top of the floor slab. She wants hot water under floor heating and the architect says that it is possible to get insulation pre-rebated for the...

I'm starting to draw up some plans for a new extension and would like to do it on the computer rather than a drawing board. Can anyone recommend and free or reasonably cheap software to do this please ? I suppose that I could use Powerpoint at a pinch but there must be packages available...

Thanks Guys ... I think that I will take 'freddymercurystwin' advice and get a structural engineer involved although I am still of the mentality that it should be able to do it all myself given enough book and web reading. I am still interested in how to solve this problem and in response to...

Hi .. I'm planning a 4.5m x 3.5m 'family room' extension to our house which I want to be as comfortable as possible in the winter months. Our house is standard oil-fired with piped hot water (15mm piping) to radiators in most rooms. I can extend the piping to the new extension fairly easily and...

hi guys ... this is my first append to what seems to be a useful forum. Hope that you can help me with a issue relating to the design of the roof for a small single storey extension. I am in the process of drawing up the plans for a small 4.5 x 3.5m single storey extension which is intended...