May 4, 20179 yr Hi folks - just joined up! - aged and decrepit de-registered architect seeks help with Building Control - the guys in the shiny peaked hats, dark glasses and armbands dragged back into the fray by wayward kids and now hopelessly out of touch I joined looking for any help around - in anticipation of lots of queries from BC and it looks like I got this introduction in the wrong place! ed Edited May 4, 20179 yr by jack to add stuff and apologise!
May 4, 20179 yr Morning Ed and welcome to the forum. What's the project...always nice to have another architect to offer a viewpoint?
May 4, 20179 yr Author hi there again - thanks for the welcomes! its a TINY mod to form a kitchen on the GF adjacent to the back garden with a couple IG lintols maybe and some faffing around with support - nothing major - my idea was an engineers calcs and a building notice but NO WAY - so its heads down now - cartridge paper on the dining room table - no drawing board - no autocad!!!
May 4, 20179 yr 6 minutes ago, Ed OHara said: cartridge paper on the dining room table - no drawing board - no autocad!!! Old school!
May 4, 20179 yr Many of us here are young-at-heart decrepit old farts; struggling with how things were done back then and how they are now, shaking our heads in sometimes gleeful disbelief. Downloadable coordinates accurate to a few mm, laser measurement accurate to fewer; overnight deliveries to a post code. And the fast disappearing art of common-sense checking. Hence we 'lost' 157mm recently, and over pressured delivery drivers steer themselves into the rat trap from Hell: our lane. As @Jack says, Old Skool's welcome. Add my welcome to the list. Ian
May 4, 20179 yr Welcome ...! Slight worry if you have BC issues what's the chance of mere mortals ...! All good fun here - ask away and we may be able to assist. I think we even have our own tame BCO in the ranks somewhere...
May 4, 20179 yr Welcome - sounds like fun - thick lines, thin lines, construction lines, the reassuring rasp of a well honed pencil on the cartridge paper, forming those little arrows - filling them in and writing text between two feint lines. I should get a good rubber. CAD is great but symbiosis of man and thinking machine (JC Jones, Design the Seeds of human futures, 1970) it ain't yet, wish I had the time to indulge with a pencil and the space for an A1 drawing board.
May 5, 20179 yr Author At Framlingham, Suffolk (castle, church organ, lots of new houses sitting on an infrastructure as old as the castle - so more digging up of road to come) ed
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