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Hi - thanks for the advice. I guess if we have the paperwork to say that it was all good the first time round, and we show that all we've done is bring elements further up to date, then who can complain? Re. the door frames. I was wondering about that. I was planning on getting a carpenter to...

Hello, when we bought our house the survey said that while the loft conversion complied with all the building regulations at the time (1994) with respect to doors leading to the escape route - it did meet meet current regulations. (Once we bought the house we had all the paperwork to confirm...

All, thanks for your replies! Based on what you've said and what I read elsewhere on the web I questioned the roofer quite a lot yesterday. He said it was not possible to have a single piece of lead go "around the inner corner" in a L-shape. Rather he would have to put in two separate pieces...

Do you mean make it go up and down neatly around the glazing bars, rather than the current frilly looking arrangement that's just sitting loosely along the glass and bars?

Hmmm. Thanks for that. Roofer is not due to arrive until lunch time so I was wondering if he'd really have time to do a proper job of it in just half a day (less than four hours of daylight...). Maybe once he gets here and I explain that I want it doing properly (chased into the wall etc.) for a...

Wow, thanks for a quick reply! So should it also extend "around the corner" somehow too? Is there any special knack to that? The wall of the house is covered in rendering. Sorry for a naive question but how do they find the join in the brick work in which to chase in the lead without...

Hello, I was hoping to get some advice about a leak in my conservatory. We moved into our house about six months ago and the conservatory started leaking shortly afterwards. I've had a conservatory specialist come to fix the leak and after replacing some parts and removing some previous...

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