Building Regs

[Gumbo Robot]

I can't believe the number of bits of paper you need to have to cover the most trivial thing when you're selling up.

I can understand why there should be mechanisms in place to stop amateurs installing gas central heating but needing building regs for fitting a replacement window?

It's £120 a pop round here for building regs. It's also very telling that all these regulations seem to have come in post 2002

Edit: It gets scarier. Looking through the list I have in front of me it seems you need building regs even for putting up/ taking down a stud partition Yes, I should have been more diligent & I've got the paperwork for all the other stuff I've had done but there are some things that seem so trivial you don't even bother thinking about building regs.

Hopefully I can get some indemnity insurance to cover this....

[MarillionFan]

You did apply for planning permission before you changed the wallpaper, didn't you?

Do you get wallpaper in a cardboard box?

[Gumbo Robot]

You did apply for planning permission before you changed the wallpaper, didn't you?

Nope.

I put in a new internal doorway and the local regs say it has to be self closing ( to stop a fire spreading)

This is an 18C cottage not a frikkin' old peoples home FFS!

[MrMarkyMark]

Edit: It gets scarier. Looking through the list I have in front of me it seems you need building regs even for putting up/ taking down a stud partition

If you have put it up and taken it back down, whats the problem

[d000hg]

Nope.

I put in a new internal doorway and the local regs say it has to be self closing ( to stop a fire spreading)

This is an 18C cottage not a frikkin' old peoples home FFS!

I thought they'd back-tracked on that particular rule, some friends converted their loft and had to do the same thing. Seems daft new houses have to do this but old ones do not have to be retrofitted - or even that their existing doors didn't have to be retrofitted at the same time!

Maybe the rules are still in place and they just took all the chains out as soon as it passed!

[fullyautomatix]

Nope.

I put in a new internal doorway and the local regs say it has to be self closing ( to stop a fire spreading)

This is an 18C cottage not a frikkin' old peoples home FFS!

Welcome to New Labour's nanny state. Now, have you gained permission to take a dump ?

[Halo Jones]

[QUOTE=Gumbo Robot;2172067] It's £120 a pop round here for building regs. QUOTE]

That’s cheap – I just got a fee for £15k!