joe90

How do you plan on doing that?

From memory (which is not great) that thread said linked fire alarms were cited as a means of passing regs and I simply agreed that that would be the simplest suggestion.

That is trespass, tell city fibre their employees broke into a locked building site, remove the overhead cable or it will be brought down by machinery operating on your secure site. Did you install a duct? If so tell them you have already provided a duct between those two poles. Re: Overhead Lines BT, Openreach and or any other Utility Provider be it Telecoms or Power don’t need a Wayleave to span Cables over your property as the Low Flying Wires Act allows to to put wires over the boundary of your property as long as; 1. We don’t need to enter your property to do it. 2. The wires are 3m or more above ground level. 3. They don’t interfere with normal business at the property.

So stud the wall above down to meet the new wooden door frame.

I guess stair suppliers/manufacturers test theirs to make sure they conform. It would be difficult to DIY and prove conformity (glad I bought a kit 🤷‍♂️)

UDL?

UPVC to match the door and frame.

You need to measure it and work out the volume or fill it with water and measure that to work out the volume. (Just buy a couple of bags it ain’t that expensive).

Point taken but it’s still 0.36 not 1.08 ( >3m long timber handrail is too long IMO)

Then that is for your builder to put right at his expense So not a problem. Go cap in hand to the planners for a solution, accessibility is a real need.

Really? I would have thought any point along the balustrade must resist 0.36kN/m so the handrail must resist this (snapping) and midpoint that load would be shared, so 0.18kN/m each, but incrementally raised to 0.36 as you get to each end Newel post. 🤷‍♂️

Drop the frame down and Infill the top.

“Domestic & Residential (Single Family Home), Internal Stairs/Landings Etc. In this case, the handrail must be able to withstand a pressure of 0.36kN/m. However, for external balconies and in light office areas that are not prone to overcrowding, this requirement is doubled to 0.74kN/m.

Depends on the volume of the back boiler.

+1, yes you will have a step but a smaller one that at present and look far better.

Already done.

Then I would ask the builder why he didn’t follow the drawings (which is what you are paying him to do!) and what is he going to do to rectify the thermal bridge. I would not put up with that fault caused by the builder.

How did the architect detail it? And why didn’t the builder do what the architect designed. Well he is not an architect and does not know better.

Yes.

Sorry to here that but stick with it and share with us, we have lots of valuable knowledge about planning.

Ha great minds think alike!!!! I was just going to post the same idea. A short piece of chunky angle iron say 50mm x 50mm as the brackets. Will the heads of the bolts be in the way?

A decent fabricator could do this accurately (a shame you’re not just down the road, I could weld it directly for you). If it were 1mm too big a penny washer would pack it tightly, if 1 mm too tight then an angle grinder would free it up enough 🤷‍♂️

I have replaced several lead valleys with GRP very successfully, I have doubts about patches “sticking” to lead?. Advantages of GRP is no joins as needed in sheets of lead and far cheaper.

And will annoy you forever. I agree option 2 will look better (but then I am OCD) If I understand that correctly you will be bolting the newel post through plasterboard 🤷‍♂️ that would worry me as plasterboard can crush and newl posts can have high loads (think Kids swinging on them) and there is a lot of leverage on the fixings.

Well with my treatment plant I discharged to a ditch that was dry a couple of months a year and the pipe (10m) to the ditch was a “rumble drain” which is a partial drain, I.e. perforated pipe in a stone filled trench to the outlet in the ditch.