building regulations

Hello. My house needs re-rendering and I understand that now under building regs it need to be thermally improved. However the house was built in 1914 and has a narrow cavity wall. The cavity doesnt exist everywhere either. In some places the walls have virtually no cavity and the wall in the...

Hi All, I am in a bit of a pickle and would appreciate some advice. I have an "attached" double garage which I would like to make more habitable as I tend to spend a lot of time tinkering with motorcycles. I intend to tile the floor, install some insulated plasterboard to external walls, add a...

Hi, I have recently made a complaint about our neighbours extension. The extension is built right up to our fence and outwards to what appears to be outside of planning rules. The building is constructed with what could possibly be inappropriate materials. The roof is corrugated plastic...

We recently started our loft conversion in a terraced house. The contractor followed the plans based on a calculation that was provided by a structural engineer. The work progressed to a level that three steam beams were put in place and by this time we heard back from the council building...

i can greatly appreciate some advice. I’m building double story extension and architect told me I need hallway on the first floor which is about half the width of the room. (I’ve attached current design, pls see yellow circled area.) 1) what is the min requirements for building reg for the...

Good morning, I have moved a bathroom wall to enlarge the bathroom. Previously the door was swinging outside and there was a small area in front of it. I have moved the wall bringing it closer to the staircase that is coming from the ground floor but with the door swinging inwards now. My friend...

Hi all, Has anyone here successfully applied for a building warrant for converting a room upstairs into a bathroom? Would you be willing to share the plans you submitted? I'd like to avoid paying an architect/designer if possible but in order to make sure I'm not biting off more than I can chew...

I have got planning permission to divide one larger room into two with a timber partition wall ending in the external large existing sliding doors opening (with concrete lintel above). I am struggling to find any construction details for an external timber pier for this dividing wall between...

Hi Folks, I could do with drawing in the general wisdom please. We are about to take on a full refurb of a semi and there is an external door in the kitchen that we would like to remove / brick up, to make better use of the space for the new kitchen. What are the restrictions on removing an...

Hi there, grateful for some advice on this query. We purchased our house in 2016, with a little conservatory on the back. Apparently this was built before previous owners bought in 2007, and no building regs in place so We purchased indemnity insurance instead in order to get mortgage agreed...

Hi all, We are currently in the process of buying a house that has an indemnity policy for planning permission and building regulations for the front porch and also the extension. However, we are now also considering internal walls that we want to knock down such as that containing the airing...

We have had some issues with our neighbour during our planning application (we tried everything to get them on side). Long story, short, we have approval but we know they are going to cause trouble with the Part Wall Agreement (they already signed up to a Surveyor) so we are looking at ways of...

Hi, I recently had a rewire done by a niceic approved electrician. Trunking was used in 99% of places except behind a plasterboarded wall. This only came to light when I went to have a cat 5 cable fitted (hole shown on top of double socket). Here's a pic, I've circled the untrunked cables in...

Hi I built a garage last year and have just got the building regs certificate for it. We dug the foundation trenches and I phoned the council to notify them and ask them to check the trenches. They went a bit mad and said I had to do a regularisation application which I did , seemed very...

I have recently been granted planning permission to put up an outbuilding in the back of my garden. The size is 5m wide by 7m deep by 3m tall. I plan to create 0.5m deep perimeter foundations and then pour a 0.2m deep slab over the top. I plan to build it out of brick and thermal block with a...

I'm renovating my house, part of which involves knocking through what used to be an external wall, into an existing extension. I've got structural calcs for the works to re-support the wall and am aware that it will need to be inspected by a BCO, but this has led me to check whether the...

Here's videos of my efforts and progress so far I've almost completed the whole ground floor now just the remaining of the hallway I can't do till I remove the old stair but I have completed the entire downstairs central heating pipes all now insulated. So my next project now is building the new...

Hi guys, I just moved into a new place and I am slowly decorating and uncovering slowly but surely odd works that look like they need to be properly redone. Or they seem covered up. the walls simply crumble away it's quite alarming it's like there has been flood damage or something like...

I've started a massive upgrade on my house following finding out I had a cowboy builder who done my loft did everything wrong as he didn't fire proof and insulate the loft which is technically dangerous. Which the building control failed to enforce the regulations at the time and after forcing...

Hi I've bought an 1880s house with no heating, barely any electrics and a bathroom in an outhouse. The outhouse is connected to the house by a now-rotting wooden porch-like structure. This structure could easily be knocked down and removed and the outbuilding would again be completely separate...