I am the landlord of a house that I rent out.
A new tenant has just moved in and is complaining that the balustrades (uprights) of the stair bannister exceed 100mm according to the Part K of the building regs.
None of the past tenants have mentioned this before.
As this balustrade was like this when I bought the house 8 years ago I was wondering if building regs were retrospective or they just apply to new builds?
ie they would apply if I ripped this balutrade out and replaced it with a new one but do not apply if built before the regs came into force.
I am also having trouble finding part K regs to download off the web - all the ones I found seem not to load for some reason.
Could anybody point me in the right direction for a good copy that I can download.
Thanks
Paul
A new tenant has just moved in and is complaining that the balustrades (uprights) of the stair bannister exceed 100mm according to the Part K of the building regs.
None of the past tenants have mentioned this before.
As this balustrade was like this when I bought the house 8 years ago I was wondering if building regs were retrospective or they just apply to new builds?
ie they would apply if I ripped this balutrade out and replaced it with a new one but do not apply if built before the regs came into force.
I am also having trouble finding part K regs to download off the web - all the ones I found seem not to load for some reason.
Could anybody point me in the right direction for a good copy that I can download.
Thanks
Paul