Beam and Block with timber frame Detail

Makes sense now? If you're talking about how Building Control consider the floor area then it's the internal floor area so calculate your area up to the inside face of the plasterboard.

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Hi
Thanks so much for the info on the floor area. I am not sure how I work out the internal floor area from my architects drawings. I have paid building control now so hopefully I can start to chat to them about what expect.

When you say brick plinth, do you mean like my structural engineer shows in his drawing here?
 

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It does work but on my phone it isn't clear at all.
Sometimes mobile phone networks will deliberately degrade the quality of images to make them smaller, so you don't burn as much of your data allowance.

The images posted on the forum are clear for me on WiFi on an iPhone; the line drawing of the wall detail above is 1164x768 in dimension and 191kb in size, and a JPEG. If you get info on what you see and it's smaller than this it's likely that somewhere between diynot's server and your phone it has been re-compressed to be smaller, by throwing away detail

JPEG isn't a great format to use for drawings, screenshots and other images where there are sharp changes in colour and contrast between adjacent parts because JPEG was designed for photographs of things in the world and relies on gradual colour changes, meaning relatively large blocks of the image can be smoothed to be similar colours without the eye noticing, throwing away detail and making the file a lot smaller. Phone networks hence sometimes take the opinion that jpeg can be compressed much further because the user won't really notice or care
This unfortunately tends to destroy line art and text, blurring them out into blocks of the same colour

I am not sure how I work out the internal floor area from my architects drawings
It's written the drawing; 22.9sqm for the lounge and roughly two lots of 2.7sqm for the en-suite and the kitchen. Critically, it's less than 30sqm and a metre from the boundary, so it's clear your architect has targeted structure building regs exemptions in that regard.. It appears to contain plumbing and will likely need regs approval for that

The foundation and wall buildup is also depicted in the drawing, and very similar to FMT's design
 
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Dear Robin.

Thanks so much for your explanation on the clarity of the images and why I could possibly be having issues viewing them. To be honest, I am dated on how to use files, send files, compress files and zip them etc.

Yeah, I can see the area of the lou ge in m2 and the bathroom, as you say, the kitchen is similar but this also has a wall in the middle separating them so I need to try and interpret the length x width of the walls inside to get the correct floor area which has not been specified.

Again, thanks so much for your help. You guys and this forum are great.

Regards L
 

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