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    Parapet wall, box gutter, pitched roof - is this ok?

    I'm having an extension built at the moment which includes a pitched roof down to a box gutter and parapet wall. I've uploaded the section from the building regs drawings which show that the design has the roof joists on hangers and then the box gutter sat on top of the inner leaf of the cavity...
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    Can anyone help figure out a route for this drain?

    It's an L-shaped terraced house. We're have a single storey extension built, filling in the side return and going out by a couple of meters, full-width. The extension goes over the drain. It's a private drain - serves just our house - and then connects in to the neighbour on the right. They...
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    How do you build right against another wall (side return extension)?

    I am just about to get planning permission to build a side return extension right up against our neighbour's kitchen wall like this (boundary on the right hand side): I'm trying to draw the building regs drawings myself, not from scratch, but using a set that I had drawn a few years ago for a...
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    Where can I find copies of building regulations drawings?

    Is there anywhere that you can look at building regulations drawings for different types of buildings e.g. are they published online anywhere like planning drawings are or are there books of them or websites that publish examples? I'm trying to draw my own building regs drawings, not from...
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    Permitted Development - where exactly is the ridge line (highest part of the roof)?

    I'm planning a full width L-shaped dormer loft conversion (to an Edwardian terraced house) under permitted development rights and I'm trying to find every possible cm for head room in the main part of the roof as we're right on the 2m threshold that is, for us, the difference between enough and...
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