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I once had the responsibility of getting an electronics company through BS 5750 and the best piece of advice I had from the inspectors was to provide the minimum info necessary to meet the requirements. Anything more detailed just boxes you into a corner you may struggle to get out of.

The best educational H&S video I have seen. Ahem.

I'm starting to pull together the information I need for submission to Building Control company, Then I realised I don't actually know the full extent of the information required, could someone enlighten me?

The missing part you liked IS the one your missing The last one I did was offset with iirc a pair of single socket 45's, but 15's or 30's would do the same thing as its down to how much offset you require. You should be able to get the offset with one double socket fitting and one single socket fitting inserted into each other ( M&F ), or a pair of singles. Bit hard to say without being there holding a cold beer and pointing at it repeatedly.

Ive put these in my double headed tripod work lights. They're not as bright as the original bulbs but as you said they blow for a pastime. http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p28889?table=no the 78mm version is here: http://www.toolstation.com/shop/p52367?table=no

oh, just as an aside to this, lots of big sites have actually banned halogen worklights due to the fire risk associated with the heat, may be of concern as there are lots of timber frame builders on here, I dont know the exact details, but apparently a site went on fire one night due to sawdust settling on a now turned off halogen light, and the latent heat ignited it. this was probably about 10-12 years ago iirc.

I've got one of these wired to a plug ... 1200x300 LED (Not from this supplier...) It's like daylight when it's on ..! I plan to get some of the 600x600 ones of the 'bay and use those as work lights inside.

Personally all my plumbing is under the floor in solvent weld and coming up ( hidden) to basins etc. I would even feed the toilet up from under the floor but I am a bit OTT on pipework showing ? Edit to add I am not sharing any pipes, other than 110mm, they all feed back to the soil pipe in either 50mm ( long run) or 40 ( shorter)

Glad it was of help. I wasn't asked for any structural calcs at all, but that's because MBC sign off the whole structure using their SE, and in our case that included a large laminated ridge beam plus a smaller laminated beam for the gable (which also uses ridge-hung rafters and no purlins or ties). I think your best bet may be to call the senior building control officer and ask. I did this after I'd submitted our application and found our chap was extremely helpful and pragmatic.

As above, we went for "full plans". MBC will send you drawings, but more importantly, they sign off the whole structure, foundations, frame, the lot, so there's no requirement for any Part A stuff for Building Control, our LABC just accepted the MBC structural sign off as evidence of compliance. That's mainly what made going for the "full plans" route attractive, as it meant I hardly needed to do any more than would have been needed for a Building Notice application.

Sure will need to dig it out and scan it.

The bits of paper I sent them are here: http://www.mayfly.eu/housebuild/part-fifteen-the-site-is-finally-ready/ I missed a couple of details, about Part P sign off and linked fire/smoke alarms amongst others, so had to send them an addendum pointing out that I'd be using a competent electrician and that I'd be fitting linked alarms, etc; all those docs can be downloaded from that link. When it came to the final Completion Inspection, then I ended up providing a load of stuff that the inspector didn't want to look at! The details of that are here: http://www.mayfly.eu/housebuild/part-forty-three-completion-and-getting-the-vat-back/

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Very true indeed, my partner and I are building an extension, she spent over 70 hours on the planning drawings and about an extra 100 hours on drawing details for the builder. In the end, the builder does not even read them, we have had to make him take down an entire wall because he missed the bridging detail. I have spent about 200 hours on sourcing materials, calling manufacturers etc (not including reading this forum) because in order to build within our budget, we agreed a labour only deal with the builder. We hired a structural engineer which I initially complained was too expensive, after all his input, i think his industry are just not charging enough! Pretty much everyone around me is an Architect (except me), not a single one of them is profitable, in my opinion, they spend 2-3x more time on projects than they bill the client, same goes for structural engineers. I have come to the conclusion that no other profession (lawyers, doctors, bankers, accountants) would do this. For a bit of fun, I would love all members to bill every hour spent on their project from inception to completion at the per hour earnings of your day job (if retired, then earning just before retiring) and add it to the project, you may find your time to be worth a lot in monetary terms. Not to mention, by the very reason you are on this forum means you have gained so much knowledge and advanced insight of how buildings work. I doubt a builder, after spending all day on site grafting would not have the time or energy to go home and spend another 3-4 hours researching new products, bridging details and ideas. On my project, i have found good ideas have come from the everyone all the way down to the labours.

Sounds lethal to me (Sorry, just couldn't resist!)