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BCO changed for another- no reason given by LPA. New BCO said will ask wall taken down to remove old wall plate - "we do not build off timber". Builder response "show me in BS or other standards where says timber is not acceptable". BCO says passed round office but no one has suggestion how to...

The BCO for this site lives six doors down the road and I wonder if he did the same when he put a similar top on his own bungalow about five years ago. Will have to wait and see what happens on his next visit. I'm really not making this up.

Thanks for the contributions so far. They confirm what I as a none builder had suspected. I guess the new blocks can't be bonded to the wall below either as the wall plate is nearly the full width of the blocks? I imagine correctly used timber in a building can be seen and replaced without...

My neighbour is adding a first floor to an existing bungalow and just built directly on to the existing timber wall plate with eight courses of concrete block! This on the inner wall (which will receive an outer skin of facing bricks) and will have a new wall plate fitted to carry trussed...