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I’m not sure what bit your trying to comply with. for me I would think to manufacture that yourself and have it all comply I would use. laminated external glass, toughened internal. door lock that has high and low level shoot bolt or hook bolt. on the hinge side anti lift hinges or anti lift pins. must obviously comply with u value for the glazed element.

As said above, you won’t be using tiles or slates. at that pitch you will need a metal sheet of some description or rubber or felt, all of these will actually help as the weight load will be less than tiles, you still need to calculate in snow load on such a flat roof.

Hoggin in London has a lot clay particles in it to make it bind. can leave mess on your shoes if wet.

Cotswold path gravel, needs laying with a bit of a fall as it doesn’t drain as well as you would think, it compacts very tightly.

On a previous post we found some nice cor ten retaining walls you no likey

I would get two cans of illbruck fm330, squirt it in to every little gap and fill it proud of the rafters, then when it’s gone of cut it flush.

Depends what distance this pipe is traveling across the house if the bathroom is on an outside wall you can lift the pipe up in the layers, it doesn’t have to be under the type 1. if the bathroom is in the middle of the house you need to consider the structure of the floor above the pipe. lift the house higher

To knock down a burnt out shell of your house, then get the foundations inspected then re build your house to the spec it was using a principal contractor to do the whole thing will be £700,000 all day long. just because your going to build it cheaper using your head and a bit of carful planning doesn’t mean the insurance company can do it like that. if you suffer a total loss you don’t want to be under insured. have you had a quote to build the whole thing with zero involvement from you, it bet it will be £600,000.

You want your first ic as high in the ground as possible, if your bathrooms are on an outside wall this is easier, if a bathroom is in the centre of the house it will get deeper as you cross the house.

Lengths of cls, spiked into the ground and screwed to the facia then board it in 9mm osb.

I used guttercrest, the quality was spot on i also liked that they delivered it in their own van so no courier problems.

That picture is only showing half the story, the flex in those hollow steel sections will be immense. that staircase will have a glass balustrade to take the flex out at the far end. im obviously not a structural engineer, but just look at that picture, there is not a hope in hell of those steel outriggers holding a man’s weight if he was to stand on a single tread at the furthest point from the wall. be carful of pictures taken halfway through a job.

Do you need to be accurate with your posts you normally pack them up with steel packers and then grout underneath them.

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Stop giving money to fat people to sit at home all day. there money problem solved. the amount of fat lazy dole bludgers over in Tenerife a few months back was staggering. my place doubled in value as soon as we got planning in place, it has since doubled again with a house on it. at least by the time I come to sell labour will be a horrendous memory.

My cills have welded upstands on the ends to prevent water running from the sides and into the fabric of the building, you can’t weld the green coat without damage to the coating.

No, get them folded in aluminium and powder coated in the colour of your choice.

Nerdy dork alert!!!

Whatever you think it needs over engineering Massively I witnessed a large staircase that had a complex curve in it nearly twist off the wall as the temporary bracing was removed. there are some serious forces at play with cantilevers, and there would be nothing worse than a bouncy staircase. steel support structure buried in the wall for me, or a 140mm solid block wall.

Nope do nothing, Natural England have no money, no staff to either enforce anything or anything else for that matter, it’s just like making more laws but not having a police force. the only thing it is doing is making it increasingly hard to get new planning permission, unless you want to build 2000 houses that is.

Silly old England again. we live in the largest catchment area in the country that is not on a mains sewer, hundreds of houses everyone with its own septic tank. Natural England have just put a blanket SSSI status on the area covering a few thousand acres.

2 down pipes and very very little fall even dead flat, you don’t need much fall with modern aluminium gutters or high flow gutters. the weather in this country is changing, gone are the days of 8 hours of drizzle, now it’s. Big fat rain drops, these people specifying this stuff need to stop thinking it’s 1886. Australian regs are an outlet every 6 m, you want the water off the roof not sitting in a gutter unable to get out. we are starting to get more tropical big weather events. I would never build anything again with either hidden gutters or box gutters, recipe for a disaster.

The water from our graff tank is clear and completely odourless, it’s not likely to bung up your drainage field unlike my other septic tank which is horrible.

In this weather you can happily stand and soak the blocks with a hose pipe before laying, just soak the stacks of blocks while the mixer is getting loaded up.