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Getting Started Costs & Budgeting Planning & Permissions Structural Managing the Project Loft Storage Loft Conversions Extensions Roofs & Roofing Kitchens Bathrooms Renovation Essentials Outdoor & Conversions Foundations & Groundworks Brick, Block & Mortar Steel & Structural Timber Floors & Screeds Roofing Materials Insulation & Membranes Cladding & Render Windows, Doors & Glazing Merchants & Buying Materials – Interior Heating, Plumbing & Electrics Trades & Professionals Heating, Energy & Eco Garden & Landscaping Rooms & Spaces Flooring Decorating & Paint Repairs & Problems How-To & DIY

All collections Every reading path in one place Loft conversion, start to finish Thirteen stages, from working out whether your roof takes one to signing off the completion certificate, with the notes and the tools you need at each. Planning your extension Thirteen stages, from a first cost per square metre to the final account, in the order an extension actually happens. Planning permission, decoded What needs permission, what is permitted development, and how building regulations fit in: the six steps that settle the rules before you design anything. Hiring a builder without regrets Eight stages, from writing the scope to releasing the retention, and the checks at each one that keep you protected. Renovating a house: where to start Thirteen stages, from surveying what you have bought to signing the job off, and the order the works themselves have to happen in.

All templates Paperwork you can fill in and send Party wall notices The four documents the 1996 Act asks for, with the dates worked out Letter to the neighbours Dates, hours, skip and scaffold, and a number to ring Planning comment Object or support on grounds the council can actually weigh Cancel a contract The fourteen day cooling-off right, and your real deadline Defective work letter Put it right at their cost, under the Consumer Rights Act Retention release Ask for the money held back, once the period has run

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