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The approved documentsThese are a part of the Building RegulationsThese are the legal regulations which govern how a house is constructed. (not to be confused with Planning Permissionthe legal basis for being allowed to do some form of development such as building a house. (not to be confused with Building RegulationsThese are the legal regulations which govern how a house is constructed. (not to be confused with Planning Permission which is about whether you are allowed to build the house at all or what it might look like) see Building Regulations) which is all about whether the building is properly constructed). see more on Planning Permission which is about whether you are allowed to build the house at all or what it might look like) see Building Regulations) which ensure, if you [...] April 3rd, 2013 | Tags: A structure, access for the disabled, archaeological remains, backfill, basements, below ground, brick, brickwork, bridging cavities, brownfield, brownfield site, building land, building materials, building plot, building regulations, building site, cavity, cavity wall, chemical pollution, concrete, concrete floors, condensation, construction, damp proofing, disabled access, disturbed land, DPC, DPCs, DPM, DPMs, drainage, drains, dry lining, Eurocodes, external insulation, external wall insulation, external walls, foundations, french drain, frost protection, ground floor, hardcore, interstitial, Part C, radon, rising damp, roof, roof insulation, sarking, soil, survey, wall ties | Category: | Leave a comment The approved documentsThese are a part of the Building RegulationsThese are the legal regulations which govern how a house is constructed. (not to be confused with Planning Permissionthe legal basis for being allowed to do some form of development such as building a house. (not to be confused with Building RegulationsThese are the legal regulations which govern how a house is constructed. (not to be confused with Planning Permission which is about whether you are allowed to build the house at all or what it might look like) see Building Regulations) which is all about whether the building is properly constructed). see more on Planning Permission which is about whether you are allowed to build the house at all or what it might look like) see Building Regulations) which ensure, if you [...] March 24th, 2013 | Tags: boundaries, boundary walls, ducts, fire protection, fire rating, fire resistance, fire safety, fire spread, flues, garage, ground floor, internal walls, mineral fibre, Part B, party wall, plaster board, plasterboard, recessed lights, roofing materials, roofs, smoke, spread of flame, sprinklered, sprinklers | Category: | Leave a comment Contouring There needs to be a certain amount of planning as to where to store topsoil while the building work is in progress. It is important to carefully keep topsoil from mixing with subsoil. If there is a surplus of subsoil then it may be possible to ‘lose’ it around the site by slightly [...] March 19th, 2012 | Tags: access, backfill, basement, basements, below ground, building site, cellar, checking out land, concrete, concrete floors, condensation, DPC, DPCs, DPM, DPMs, drainage, drains, dry lining, earth, earth sheltered, excavating, expanded polystyrene, flooding, foamed glass, foundations, french drain, garage, ground floor, JCB, levelling, parking, rain water harvesting, rising damp, slope, wall linings, water table | Category: | 2 comments ‘Under the Sun’, a Victorian terrace house in Birmingham is an outstanding example of bringing a fairly typical old building up to PassivhausSee more on the PassivhausSee more on the Passivhaus standard. The PassivHaus Institute has pioneered a standard for low energy buildings. It includes very low energy usage and ways of achieving this. The word is derived from the idea of buildings which are fundamentally low energy and passive solar heated rather than using extra gadgets to heat them. See Passivhaus for the UK branch of the organisation. standard. The PassivHaus Institute has pioneered a standard for low energy buildings. It includes very low energy usage and ways of achieving this. The word is derived [...] May 21st, 2011 | Tags: air quality, building, building contract, building materials, building regulations, building supplies, calculations, certification, Code for Sustainable Homes, Code for Sustainable Homes level 5, Code for Sustainable Homes level 6, construction, consultant, costings, CSH, CSH level 6, damp proofing, decision making, decorating, decoration, demolishing, demolition, demolitions, DPCs, DPM, DPMs, draft excluder, drafts, drawings, dry lining, embodied energy, Energy performance certificate, EPC, estimating, extend, extension, exterior, external insulation, external wall insulation, feed in tariff, floor boards, floor finishes, floors, fuel, fuels, green design, grey water, ground floor, ground source heat pump, ground source heat pumps, GSHP, hard surfaces, hardstanding, health and safety, heat recovery, heat store, heat stores, heating, hot water, internal walls, joinery, lifelong homes, lifetime homes, lighting, lighting design, lime render, maintenance, managing self build, materials, mineral fibre, mortgage, mortgages, natural finishes, natural paints, passive gain, passive solar, Passivhaus standard, phenolic foam, planning, planning approval, planning permission, polystyrene, polyurethane, preservatives, PV, radiators, rain water, regulations, repair, retrofit, reuse, reused, reverse metering, rock wool, SAP, secondary glazing, solar, sub contractor, temporary services, timber | Category: | Leave a comment January ’13 Advantages of timber Constructing with FSCForest Stewardship Council (who accredit timber) timber (or another accreditation organisation such as PEFCProgramme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification. See their web site) is potentially one of the greenest ways of building for several reasons. Timber itself captures and locks up CO² as it grows and keeps [...] March 29th, 2011 | Tags: beech, board, boards, Brettstapel, builders merchants, building supplies, cover strips, covings, embodied energy, engineered timber, fir, frame, framework, glulam, green design, ground floor, handrails, hybrid joists, I beams, internal walls, joinery, joints, joist, joist hangers, kite winders, kits, laminated timber, larch, loadings, local timber, log stoves, logs, mobile sawmill, mouldings, natural finishes, natural materials, newel post, oak, parana pine, parquet, pellets, post and beam, preservatives, protection, purlin, railings, rain screen, recycled, reuse, reused, roofs, roundwood, skirtings, sleepers, softwood, solid timber, span, span tables, spiral stairs, structural calculations, structural timber, structure, supply, sustainability, sweet chestnut, timber, timber floors, timber frame, timber merchants, timber suppliers, timber treatment, tongue and groove, tongued and grooved, truss, Walter Seagal, Walter Segal, window liners, windows, wood block, wood burning, wood chip, wood pellet stove, wood stove, wood strip | Category: | Leave a comment |
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