Tumbleweed wrote:
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
...
snip

there's nothing new about Building Regs. I've looked at the site,
and
I can certainly replace a pane of glass myself without being a
member
of anything. What's involved here is _replacement installation_,
not
repair. Replacement windows and doors have to meet new
requirements,
that's all: and that's a very good thing. A sample from the site:

Where a window or windows is/are completely replaced (as opposed
to
repaired) in existing dwellings, they must comply with Approved
Documents Parts L1 and N (safety in relation to impact).

And you don't have to be a qualified electrician to do electrical
work. You have to meet the regs, that's all. It's been true all my
life, give or take a detail or two.


Whats the site? I've just replaced a number of internal doors,
would
be interesting to see what regs apply to a door! I wonder if a
door
purchased from a DIY store would anyway meet the regs? And how
would
someone buying my house in say 5 years time know if they had been
replaced/met the regs?

The site is:
http://www.fensa.co.uk/faq.html#1

I can't imagine what relevance it might have to _interior_ doors.
Well, I suppose there must be something to stop idiots using ordinary
glass at child height in interior doors, but you wouldn't have done
that.

I don't know when you last sold a house, but these days purchasers'
surveyors are extremely picky and own-arse-covering (I bear the
psychological scars a year later!) It helps a lot if you've got
evidence of Building Regs approval, too; a certificate from a FENSA
member is apparently equivalent.

--
Mike.

"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
...
Tumbleweed wrote:
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
...
snip

there's nothing new about Building Regs. I've looked at the site,
and
I can certainly replace a pane of glass myself without being a
member
of anything. What's involved here is _replacement installation_,
not
repair. Replacement windows and doors have to meet new
requirements,
that's all: and that's a very good thing. A sample from the site:

Where a window or windows is/are completely replaced (as opposed
to
repaired) in existing dwellings, they must comply with Approved
Documents Parts L1 and N (safety in relation to impact).

And you don't have to be a qualified electrician to do electrical
work. You have to meet the regs, that's all. It's been true all my
life, give or take a detail or two.


Whats the site? I've just replaced a number of internal doors,
would
be interesting to see what regs apply to a door! I wonder if a
door
purchased from a DIY store would anyway meet the regs? And how
would
someone buying my house in say 5 years time know if they had been
replaced/met the regs?

The site is:
http://www.fensa.co.uk/faq.html#1

I can't imagine what relevance it might have to _interior_ doors.
Well, I suppose there must be something to stop idiots using ordinary
glass at child height in interior doors, but you wouldn't have done
that.

I don't know when you last sold a house, but these days purchasers'
surveyors are extremely picky and own-arse-covering (I bear the
psychological scars a year later!) It helps a lot if you've got
evidence of Building Regs approval, too; a certificate from a FENSA
member is apparently equivalent.

But in an old house how would anyone know if the fittings were not
original, and who would keep builders bills from 20 or 30 years ago?

--
alan

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Alan Holmes wrote:
"Mike Lyle" wrote in [...]
I can't imagine what relevance it might have to _interior_ doors.
Well, I suppose there must be something to stop idiots using
ordinary
glass at child height in interior doors, but you wouldn't have
done
that.

I don't know when you last sold a house, but these days
purchasers'
surveyors are extremely picky and own-arse-covering (I bear the
psychological scars a year later!) It helps a lot if you've got
evidence of Building Regs approval, too; a certificate from a
FENSA
member is apparently equivalent.

But in an old house how would anyone know if the fittings were not
original, and who would keep builders bills from 20 or 30 years
ago?

Well, I suppose a professional surveyor could sometimes tell, and
sometimes not tell -- I quite strongly suspect he'd get it right more
often than not (in a really old house it would usually be obvious to
anybody, of course). It's not so much the builder's bills as the
Building Regs evidence; but it would be rash to not to keep the
bills, as you might want to make a claim.

But having just sold a partly-new and partly-old house under the new
rules, I very strongly urge everybody to take these things seriously.
I lost my first potential purchaser because of an over-cautious
surveyor's report: thank Heaven, the next offer came from people
whose surveyor expressed himself differently though describing the
same things.

--
Mike.

"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
...
Tumbleweed wrote:
"Mike Lyle" wrote in message
...
snip

there's nothing new about Building Regs. I've looked at the site,
and
I can certainly replace a pane of glass myself without being a
member
of anything. What's involved here is _replacement installation_,
not
repair. Replacement windows and doors have to meet new
requirements,
that's all: and that's a very good thing. A sample from the site:

Where a window or windows is/are completely replaced (as opposed
to
repaired) in existing dwellings, they must comply with Approved
Documents Parts L1 and N (safety in relation to impact).

And you don't have to be a qualified electrician to do electrical
work. You have to meet the regs, that's all. It's been true all my
life, give or take a detail or two.


Whats the site? I've just replaced a number of internal doors,
would
be interesting to see what regs apply to a door! I wonder if a
door
purchased from a DIY store would anyway meet the regs? And how
would
someone buying my house in say 5 years time know if they had been
replaced/met the regs?

The site is:
http://www.fensa.co.uk/faq.html#1

I can't imagine what relevance it might have to _interior_ doors.
Well, I suppose there must be something to stop idiots using ordinary
glass at child height in interior doors, but you wouldn't have done
that.

I don't know when you last sold a house, but these days purchasers'
surveyors are extremely picky and own-arse-covering (I bear the
psychological scars a year later!) It helps a lot if you've got
evidence of Building Regs approval, too; a certificate from a FENSA
member is apparently equivalent.

But in an old house how would anyone know if the fittings were not
original, and who would keep builders bills from 20 or 30 years ago?

--
alan

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