Trades & Labour
170 sources in the library on trades & labour, 38 on this page cited in a published note. Each one says what the document covers and what it is good for. Name a source to see which document it is and where to read it. One at a time. Page 1 of 5.
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Building Safety Regulator / HSE (GOV.UK)
The GOV.UK collection that gathers every register and rule for building control in England and Wales after the Building Safety Act 2022 reforms, last updated 23 July 2026. For individuals it holds the guidance on registering as a building inspector, the professional codes and standards they must meet, and the misconduct and disciplinary procedures. For organisations it holds registration as a building control approver, the assessment criteria, operational standards reporting, inspection procedures, professional conduct expectations, and the contraventions and criminal offences that apply. Crucially it hosts the searchable registers for registered building inspectors and registered building control approvers across England and Wales, which is how a homeowner verifies that the private firm signing off their extension is currently registered rather than trading on a lapsed approved-inspector reputation.
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GOV.UK
Sets statutory interest for late payment between businesses at 8% plus the Bank of England base rate. Statutory interest cannot be claimed where the contract sets a different rate of interest, and a lower rate cannot be used in a contract with a public authority. The worked example on a 1,000 pound debt with a 0.5% base rate gives annual statutory interest of 85 pounds (1,000 x 0.085), daily interest of 23 pence (85 divided by 365) and 11.50 pounds after 50 days. A new invoice should be sent if interest is added to the sum owed. This is the rule behind the interest clause in a merchant's trade account terms and behind a builder's claim for late payment of a stage payment, but it applies business to business, not to a consumer paying a builder.
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Health and Safety Executive
The specific HSE information sheet behind the dust advice, with the numbers a note can quote. Names three types of construction dust: silica dust, also called respirable crystalline silica, from concrete, mortar and sandstone; wood dust from softwood, hardwood and wood-based products including MDF and plywood; and other general dust from materials with little or no silica, most commonly gypsum as in plasterboard, limestone, marble and dolomite. States that over 500 construction workers are believed to die from exposure to silica dust every year, and that the main dust-related diseases are lung cancer, silicosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma, most developing slowly though advanced silicosis and asthma can come on quickly. The legal framework is the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations 2002, and the three required steps are Assess, Control and Review. On damping down it corrects a common site habit: water needs enough supply at the right levels for the whole time the work is being done, and just wetting the material beforehand does not work. High dust levels come from high-energy tools such as cut-off saws, grinders and grit blasters.
Cited in How to Insulate a Loft (DIY), How to Tile a Wall or Floor, Interior Finishes: The Complete UK Guide (2026), Kitchen Worktops Compared: Quartz, Granite, Laminate.
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Health and Safety Executive
HSE page (updated 7 October 2025) defining a domestic client under CDM 2015 as any individual having construction work done on their own home or a family member's home that is not part of a business. On a single-contractor project the contractor automatically takes on the client's legal duties; where there is more than one contractor the principal contractor takes them on, unless the client makes a written agreement for the designer to act as principal designer.
Cited in Church Conversion Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide, Project Managing Your Own Renovation.
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Health and Safety Executive
HSE's scaffolding page states that employers and self-employed contractors must assess the risk from work at height and plan the work so it is done safely, providing general access scaffolds wherever practicable. Scaffolding must be designed, erected, altered and dismantled only by competent people under the direction of a competent supervisor, following NASC Safety Guidance SG4 'Preventing falls in scaffolding operations' or equivalent manufacturer guidance for system scaffold. Strength and stability calculations are required unless the scaffold matches a generally recognised standard configuration for which a note of calculations exists, and a competent person must draw up an assembly, use and dismantling plan. Covers guard rails, toe boards, scaffold design, structures needing bespoke design, operative competence and scaffold inspection.
Cited in Scaffolding Costs Explained.
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Health and Safety Executive
HSE's definition of the two asbestos survey types, which is the correction for notes that invent a third or call it an R&D survey as though that were the formal name. A survey aims to give accurate information on the location, amount and condition of asbestos-containing materials, assess damage or deterioration and whether remedial action is needed, provide the information to produce an asbestos register and an asbestos management plan, and identify hidden ACMs to be removed before refurbishment work or demolition. There are two types: a management survey, whose main aim is to let the dutyholder produce the register and management plan and manage ACMs during normal occupation and use, and a refurbishment or demolition survey, which is the one needed before invasive works. Both types are likely to require sampling.
Cited in Building Surveys: Level 1, 2 & 3 Explained & Cost, How Much Does It Cost to Renovate a House in 2026? (UK).
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HM Courts and Tribunals Service (GOV.UK)
The issue fee table for a money claim in the county court, based on the amount claimed plus any interest: 35 pounds up to 300 pounds, 50 pounds for 300.01 to 500 pounds, 70 pounds for 500.01 to 1,000 pounds, 80 pounds for 1,000.01 to 1,500 pounds, 115 pounds for 1,500.01 to 3,000 pounds, 205 pounds for 3,000.01 to 5,000 pounds, 455 pounds for 5,000.01 to 10,000 pounds, 5% of the claim for 10,000.01 to 200,000 pounds, and 10,000 pounds above 200,000 pounds. If the amount claimed is left blank on a paper claim the fee is 10,000 pounds, so an unquantified claim must be estimated. Help with fees is available on low income or certain benefits using form EX160, alongside form N1 for the claim, returned to the Civil National Business Centre in Northampton. Further fees follow later, for example a hearing fee.
Cited in Snagging Lists & Retention: Getting the Job Finished.
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HM Revenue & Customs
HMRC guidance published 7 June 2019 and last updated 24 September 2020. The VAT domestic reverse charge must be used for most supplies of building and construction services at the standard and reduced rates where both parties are VAT registered in the UK and the supply is reported within the Construction Industry Scheme. The covered services match the CIS list of construction operations, except supplies of workers by employment businesses, and include constructing, altering, repairing, extending, demolishing or dismantling buildings or structures, works forming part of the land such as walls and roadworks, and installing heating, lighting and air conditioning. Points to CIS 340 for contractors and subcontractors. Explains why a subcontractor's invoice to a main contractor shows no VAT while the homeowner still pays VAT to the main contractor.
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HM Revenue and Customs
Carries the actual deduction rates, which explain the difference between two builders' quotes and the numbers on a subcontractor's payment statement. A contractor must deduct 20 per cent from payments to a registered subcontractor, called net payment status or payment under deduction, and pass it to HMRC as an advance payment towards the subcontractor's tax and National Insurance. If the subcontractor is not registered for the scheme, the contractor must deduct 30 per cent instead. A subcontractor who does not want deductions taken in advance can apply for gross payment status, which also registers them for CIS. Registration applies to a sole trader, the owner of a limited company, or a partner in a partnership or trust, and is not required of an employee.
Cited in What an Hour of Labour Actually Costs.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The official list of competent person schemes whose members can self-certify certain building work instead of getting building regulations approval, published 4 April 2013 and last updated 12 March 2018. Named schemes with contact numbers include ATTMA, APHC, Assure Certification, Blue Flame Certification, the British Board of Agrement, BESCA, Capita Gas Registration and Ancillary Services trading as Gas Safe Register, CIGA, Certass, Certsure LLP trading as NICEIC, the Elmhurst Airtightness Scheme, Fensa Limited, HETAS Limited, NAPIT Registration Limited, the National Federation of Roofing Contractors trading as CompetentRoofer, and OFTEC. Two footnotes matter: the Gas Safe Register is not technically a competent person scheme although in practice its installers carry the same building regulations responsibilities, and Benchmark Certification Limited ceased to operate as a competent person scheme on 10 February 2017, becoming part of NAPIT Registration Limited that day. Installers joining an electrical scheme are added to the single electrical competent person register.
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Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
MHCLG's official explanatory booklet on the Party Wall etc. Act 1996, applying to England and Wales, Crown copyright 2016. Explains the Act's effect on the Building Owner who wishes to carry out work covered by the Act and the Adjoining Owner who receives notice of it. Defines 'owner' for the Act's purposes as including anyone holding the freehold title, holding a leasehold title for a period exceeding one year, under contract to purchase such a title, or entitled to receive rents from the property, so a single property can have more than one owner. States clearly that the Act is separate from planning and building regulations control: agreement under the Act does not remove the need for planning permission or building regulations compliance, and neither does planning permission or building regulations compliance remove the need to comply with the Act. Carries a disclaimer that the booklet is a general guide and not an authoritative interpretation of the law.
Cited in Party Wall Agreements for Loft Conversions Explained.
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Office for National Statistics
The ASHE Table 14 dataset gives annual estimates of paid hours worked and earnings for UK employees by sex and by full-time or part-time status, broken down to four-digit Standard Occupational Classification, which is the level that isolates individual construction trades such as bricklayers, carpenters, plasterers and electricians. Released 23 October 2025 as the 2025 provisional edition (zip, about 10.7 MB), with revised and provisional editions back to 2017. A correction dated 19 December 2025 suppressed annual pay estimates for SOC 3312 police officers in some areas; construction occupations are unaffected.
Cited in Bathroom Remodel Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide, Bedroom Extension Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide, Blown Window Repair Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide, Bricks Per 1000 Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide and 30 more.
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Office for Product Safety and Standards and Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
Names the Office for Product Safety and Standards as the UK regulator for construction products and most consumer goods, a role it took on in April 2021, funded by and acting on behalf of MHCLG. Confirms the enforced legislation is the Construction Products Regulations 2013 as amended by the Construction Products (Amendment) Regulations 2022, which gave OPSS its enforcement powers. Records that the Grenfell Tower Inquiry final report was published on 4 September 2024, the Government response on 26 February 2025 accepting all 58 recommendations, and a Construction Products Reform White Paper on 25 February 2026 proposing reform of testing, certification, product information and enforcement. OPSS carries out product testing, site inspections and technical documentation reviews, responded to over 100 non-compliance allegations in 2023, and publishes construction product safety alerts, reports and recalls.
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Ofgem
Ofgem administers the Boiler Upgrade Scheme, and this is the page that sets the deadlines a homeowner can miss without realising. The installer must be MCS certified, which Ofgem treats as the evidence of technical competence and of products meeting the correct standards. The installer submits the application on the property owner's behalf, and the owner must confirm consent within 14 calendar days or the application may be rejected; confirming consent approves the application only and does not commit the owner to proceeding with that installer. Once an application is approved the installation must be completed within three months, extended to six months for a ground source heat pump, and missing that window means a fresh application and a fresh consent. Eligibility excludes new builds other than qualifying self-builds, social housing and properties already funded for low carbon heating. Ofgem carries out routine checks and site audits at any stage including after payment. For problems, the owner should approach the installer first and then escalate through MCS or a consumer code such as RECC.
Cited in LPG Conversion Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Section 20(1) prohibits practising or carrying on business under any name, style or title containing the word 'architect' unless the person is registered with ARB. Section 20(2) preserves the designations 'naval architect', 'landscape architect' and 'golf-course architect'. Section 20(3) lets a company, firm or partnership trade under a name containing 'architect' only where the architecture side of the business is under the control and management of a registered person who does not act in that capacity for another business at the same time, and where the work is carried on by or under the supervision of a registered person at every premises. Section 20(6) makes clear that being employed by another person does not stop someone from practising, section 20(7) defines business to include any undertaking carried on for gain or where services are not provided free, and section 20(8) preserves the validity of building contracts in customary form. This is why an architectural technologist or designer may lawfully do the same drawings but not use the protected title.
Cited in Do I Need an Architect? Architect vs Designer vs Draughtsman.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Section 36(1) lets the building control authority, without prejudice to prosecuting for a fine, serve notice on the owner requiring work that contravenes building regulations to be pulled down or removed, or at the owner's election altered so as to comply. Section 36(2) applies the same power where work was executed without an application for building control approval, despite refusal of one, or otherwise than in accordance with the requirements of a granted application. Section 36(3) gives the owner 28 days, or longer if the appropriate court or tribunal allows, before the authority may carry out the work itself and recover the reasonable expenses. Section 36(4) is the key protection: a section 36 notice may not be given after 10 years from the date the work was completed. Sections 36(5) and 36(5A) bar a section 36 notice where a building control approval application for work that is not higher-risk building work was granted and the work was executed in accordance with the approved plans and any requirement imposed.
Cited in How to Tell If a Wall Is Load-Bearing, Indemnity Insurance for Missing Building Regs.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Regulation 28(1) removes the Part 3 cancellation rights for goods or services whose price depends on financial market fluctuations outside the trader's control, for goods made to the consumer's specifications or clearly personalised, for goods liable to deteriorate or expire rapidly, for certain alcohol contracts, for contracts where the consumer specifically requested a visit for urgent repairs or maintenance, for newspapers, periodicals and magazines other than subscriptions, for contracts concluded at a public auction, and for accommodation, transport of goods, vehicle rental, catering or leisure services tied to a specific date or period. Regulation 28(2) preserves cancellation rights for any additional services or for goods other than replacement parts necessarily used, supplied during an urgent repair visit. Regulation 28(3) ends the rights where sealed goods unsuitable for return on health or hygiene grounds are unsealed, where sealed recordings or software are unsealed, or where goods become inseparably mixed with other items after delivery. The made-to-measure and mixed-goods exclusions are why cut timber, mixed mortar, made-to-order windows and delivered aggregate cannot be cancelled.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Regulation 30(2) sets the cancellation period for a service contract, or a contract for digital content not supplied on a tangible medium, at the end of 14 days after the day the contract is entered into. Regulation 30(3) sets it for a sales contract at the end of 14 days after the day the goods come into the physical possession of the consumer or a person other than the carrier identified by the consumer. Where multiple goods ordered in one order are delivered on different days (30(4)), or goods consisting of multiple lots or pieces are delivered on different days (30(5)), the 14 days run from the last delivery; for regular delivery over a defined period of more than one day (30(6)) they run from the first. Regulation 31 extends the period where the trader has not given the required cancellation information. This is the cooling-off clock for a builder's contract signed at the homeowner's house.
Cited in Builders' Merchants: The Complete UK Guide (2026), Solar Panels for Your Home: Cost & Payback (2026).
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Section 75(1) gives the debtor under a debtor-creditor-supplier agreement within section 12(b) or (c) a like claim against the creditor for any misrepresentation or breach of contract by the supplier, making creditor and supplier jointly and severally liable. Section 75(2) entitles the creditor to be indemnified by the supplier. Section 75(3) sets the limits: the section does not apply to a non-commercial agreement, nor so far as the claim relates to any single item with a cash price not exceeding 100 pounds or more than 30,000 pounds, nor to certain short-period running-account credit agreements. Section 75(4) preserves the claim even where the debtor exceeded the credit limit or breached a term of the agreement, and section 75(5) lets the creditor join the supplier to the proceedings. This is the basis for claiming a builder's default from a credit card issuer where any part of the payment was made on the card.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Section 20(4) lets the consumer reject goods and treat the contract as at an end under the short-term right to reject (subject to section 22), the final right to reject (subject to section 24) or the section 19(6) right. Section 20(5) and 20(6) say the right is exercised by indicating rejection to the trader in words or actions clear enough to be understood. Section 20(7) then imposes a duty on the trader to give a refund and on the consumer to make the goods available for collection or return them as agreed, and section 20(8) makes the trader bear any reasonable costs of return except where the consumer chooses to return them in person to the place they took possession. Section 20(15) requires the refund without undue delay and in any event within 14 days beginning with the day the trader agrees the consumer is entitled to it, section 20(16) requires the same means of payment unless the consumer expressly agrees otherwise, and section 20(17) forbids any fee for the refund. Applies to materials bought from a merchant by a consumer, not to a trade account purchase made in the course of a business.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Section 49(1), in Part 1 Chapter 4 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015, states that every contract to supply a service is to be treated as including a term that the trader must perform the service with reasonable care and skill. Section 49(2) directs the reader to section 54 for the consumer's rights when that implied term is breached. This is the single provision that makes poor workmanship by a builder a breach of contract without the homeowner having to prove anything was written down, and it cannot be excluded to the extent it would stop the section 54 to 56 remedies applying.
Cited in Snagging Lists & Retention: Getting the Job Finished.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Section 55(1) defines repeat performance as requiring the trader to perform the service again to the extent necessary to complete it in conformity with the contract. Section 55(2) requires the trader to provide it within a reasonable time and without significant inconvenience to the consumer, and to bear any necessary costs incurred in doing so, expressly including the cost of any labour or materials. Section 55(3) removes the right where completing performance in conformity with the contract is impossible. Section 55(4) says what counts as a reasonable time or significant inconvenience is judged by the nature of the service and the purpose for which it was to be performed. This is the legal answer to a builder who offers to come back but wants paying again for the return visit.
Cited in Snagging Lists & Retention: Getting the Job Finished.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Section 56(1) gives the consumer the right to require the trader to reduce the price by an appropriate amount, including a refund of anything already paid above the reduced amount, and section 56(2) allows the reduction to be the full price where appropriate. Section 56(3) restricts the choice: a consumer who also has the right to repeat performance may only take a price reduction where repeat performance is impossible under section 55(3), or where the consumer required repeat performance and the trader failed to do it within a reasonable time and without significant inconvenience. Section 56(4) requires any refund without undue delay and in any event within 14 days beginning with the day the trader agrees the consumer is entitled to it, section 56(5) requires the same means of payment unless the consumer expressly agrees otherwise, and section 56(6) forbids any fee for making the refund.
Cited in Snagging Lists & Retention: Getting the Job Finished.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Section 34(1) imposes a duty on any person who imports, produces, carries, keeps, treats or disposes of controlled waste, or who controls it as a dealer or broker, to take all reasonable measures to prevent a section 33 offence or a breach of regulation 12 of the Environmental Permitting Regulations, to prevent waste escaping, and on transfer to pass it only to an authorised person or for authorised transport purposes together with a written description of the waste. Section 34(2) exempts an occupier of domestic property in respect of household waste produced on the property, but section 34(2A) still requires that occupier in England or Wales to take reasonable measures to ensure any transfer of that household waste is only to an authorised person. Section 34(3) lists authorised persons, including waste collection authorities, waste management licence holders and carriers registered under the Control of Pollution (Amendment) Act 1989. This is why a homeowner must check a waste carrier licence before paying for a clearance or grab lorry.
Cited in Skip Hire Costs & Sizes.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Regulation 3(1) makes it unlawful for any person to carry out work in relation to a gas fitting or gas storage vessel unless he is competent to do so, and 3(2) places the duty to ensure that on the employer, on every other employer or self-employed person with any control over the work, and on anyone who required the work to be done at a place of work under their control. Regulation 3(3) goes further: no employer may let an employee, and no self-employed person may themselves, carry out work on a gas fitting or service pipework unless that employer or self-employed person is a member of a class of persons approved by the Health and Safety Executive, which in practice is registration with the Gas Safe Register. Regulation 3(4) exempts only replacing a hose or regulator on a portable or mobile space heater and replacing the hose connecting a re-fillable cylinder to installation pipework. Regulation 3(7) makes it an offence to falsely pretend to be a member of an approved class. This is the legal basis for saying a boiler must be fitted by a Gas Safe registered engineer.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Section 106(1)(a) disapplies Part II of the Act, which contains the statutory adjudication and payment provisions, to a construction contract with a residential occupier. Section 106(2) defines that as a construction contract principally relating to operations on a dwelling which one of the parties occupies or intends to occupy as his residence, with 'dwelling' meaning a dwelling-house or a flat; a dwelling-house does not include a building containing a flat, and a flat means separate self-contained residential premises divided horizontally from another part of the building. Section 106(3) and 106(4) let the Secretary of State amend the definition only by order approved by a resolution of each House. This is the provision that explains why a homeowner has no automatic statutory right to adjudicate against a builder, and why adjudication is only available if the contract itself provides for it.
Cited in Quantity Surveyors for Homeowners: Do You Need One, Snagging Lists & Retention: Getting the Job Finished.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Regulation 16(1) bars starting building work until notice of intention to start has been given to the relevant authority and at least two days have elapsed since the end of the day the notice was given. Regulation 16(3) lets the authority serve written notice requiring notification when a specified stage is reached, and may set a period before or after the work within which to notify and a period during which the work must not be covered up; under 16(3A) and 16(3B) a stage may only be specified if the authority intends to inspect it, based on its assessment of the risk of a breach. Regulation 16(3C) requires notice that work has commenced within five days of commencement, with a rejection notice possible within four weeks (16(3E)), deemed commencement if no rejection is given (16(3F)), and an appeal to the First-tier Tribunal within 21 relevant days (16(3H)) on grounds of error of fact, error of law, unreasonableness or failure to follow procedure. Regulation 16(4) requires notice within five days of completion.
Cited in Building Control: What It Is & When You Need It, New Home Foundation Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Regulation 17(1) requires the relevant authority to give a completion certificate in all cases where, after taking all reasonable steps, it is satisfied that the relevant provisions have been complied with following completion of the building work. Regulation 17(2) sets the specified period at eight weeks starting from the date the authority receives the regulation 16(4) completion notice, or the equivalent notice under regulation 22A(1) of the Building (Registered Building Control Approvers etc.) (England) Regulations 2024. The relevant provisions checked are listed at 17(2A) and include regulation 25A high-efficiency alternative systems, regulation 26 target CO2 emission rates, regulation 26A target fabric energy efficiency, regulation 26C target primary energy rates, regulation 36 water efficiency, regulation 38 fire safety information, Schedule 1, and regulation 7A of the Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) Regulations 2012. Critically, regulation 17(4) states the certificate is evidence but not conclusive evidence of compliance, and 17(5) requires the certificate itself to say so. This version applies to England only.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
Regulation 20 of the Building Regulations 2010 is the legal basis for every competent person certificate and, importantly, the deadline attached to it. Paragraph (1) applies the regulation where the building work consists only of work of a type described in column 1 of the Table in Schedule 3 carried out by a person described in column 2. Paragraph (2): the building control authority is authorised to accept, as evidence that the requirements of regulations 4 and 7 have been satisfied, a certificate to that effect from the person carrying out the work. Paragraph (3): within 30 days of completing the work that person must give the occupier a copy of the certificate and either notify the building control authority or send it the certificate. Paragraph (3A) requires the authority to keep a retrievable copy. Paragraph (5) is the sting: such a certificate is evidence, but not conclusive evidence, that the requirements have been complied with. If an installer has not produced the certificate within 30 days, chase it before final payment.
Cited in Moving Boiler Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
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Chartered Trading Standards Institute, Business Companion
CTSI's official business guidance on Part 1 Chapter 4 of the Consumer Rights Act 2015, which governs the supply of services to consumers, including where goods are supplied as part of a contract for work and materials. Sets out what the consumer can expect as statutory rights, and the tiered remedies for breach: repeat performance first, then price reduction, then other remedies. Defines a trader as a person acting for purposes relating to their trade, business, craft or profession, including a partnership, company, charity, government department, local authority or public authority, and makes a trader responsible for contracts made in its name by someone acting on its behalf. Also covers exceptions where the consumer cannot claim, time limits for court action, unfair contract terms, negligence, misrepresentation and the trader's identity. Guidance is for England and Wales.
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FENSA (Fenestration Self-Assessment Scheme)
FENSA is the competent person scheme for replacement windows and doors. The certificate confirms that the windows and doors an installer replaced comply with the Building Regulations, use energy efficient products, are registered with the local council, and that the warranty is insured. Certificates can be searched by property address or by FENSA certificate details. A replacement certificate costs £30.00 including VAT whether paid online or by cheque, the cheque price including an administration charge. The page also lists why a search returns nothing: the address entered is wrong, the job was more than a straight window or door replacement, the work was done by an installer who is not FENSA approved, or the company never notified FENSA that the job was finished. That last category is the one that surfaces during a conveyancing search.
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Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
RICS lists five member grades: Associate Member (AssocRICS) for those qualifying on work-based experience; Chartered Member (MRICS), reachable with a bachelor's degree, an approved professional qualification, or 10 years of relevant experience, and awarded after the Assessment of Professional Competence; RICS Fellow (FRICS), described as a mark of distinction and an international measure of excellence; RICS Student membership; and Retired membership. Only members and fellows may describe themselves as chartered and use MRICS or FRICS. The clean citation for any note that names a surveyor's post-nominals, including quantity surveyor, building surveyor and valuation notes.
Cited in Quantity Surveyors for Homeowners: Do You Need One.
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Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors
The missing middle of the RICS scope trio: the Level One and Level Three scope pages were already in the book, this is the Level Two benchmark table. Level 2 is for clients seeking a professional objective report on the condition of the main elements and will not contain detailed advice on repairs, though the report does include some advice on repairs and ongoing maintenance. Windows: at least one on each elevation plus one of each different type where there is a variety. Roof space: at Level 2 the member ENTERS the roof space and visually inspects the roof structure with attention to the parts vulnerable to deterioration and damage, which is the key difference from Level 1 where the member only looks in from the access hatch; for all levels the roof space inspected is no more than three metres above floor level using a ladder where safe. Floors: surfaces only, no lifting of carpets or floorboards and no moving furniture, a heel-drop deflection test, and an inverted head and shoulders subfloor inspection where hatches or floorboards are unfixed. Inspection chambers: the member lifts accessible covers to drains or septic tanks and visually inspects them. Services are never tested; at Level 2 the member visually inspects all parts of the service systems seen in the normal course of the inspection. Grounds: a thorough inspection. Appendices A and B of the Home Survey Standard hold the full benchmark tables.
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United Kingdom Accreditation Service
The live UKAS register of accredited bodies currently under sanction. It records the British Board of Agrement under imposed suspension from 26 February 2026 across all four of its accreditations: ISO/IEC 17065 product certification and ISO/IEC 17021 management systems under reference 0113, ISO/IEC 17020 inspection under 4345, and ISO/IEC 17025 testing under 0357. This is the page to check before repeating any advice that treats a BBA certificate as accredited third party assurance.
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Construction Industry Joint Council
the CIJC pay promulgation effective Monday 20 July 2026, superseding IR.2026.1 of April. WR.1 gives the six basic grades and their weekly rates on a 39 hour week: General Operative 514.02, Skill Rate 4 518.70, Skill Rate 3 548.73, Skill Rate 2 586.56, Skill Rate 1 608.79 and Craft Rate 639.60. It also sets the WR.5 daily travel and fare allowances band by band from 9 to 50 miles, the WR.15 subsistence allowance and the WR.20 industry sick pay
Cited in What an Hour of Labour Actually Costs.
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Tai Tarian Ltd, published on Sell2Wales (Welsh Government public procurement portal)
Tai Tarian Ltd, published on Sell2Wales (Welsh Government public procurement portal), NHF Form of Contract 2023 Price Framework (Lot 3 Carpentry), Tai Tarian Responsive Maintenance Framework Agreement ref 01003, sheet of priced M3NHF Version 8 Schedule of Rates. Held in the cost register as a price source; the passage quoted against it reads: 371057 | Carpentry and Joinery | Kitchen Units and Worktops | Kitchen Units - Clients Standard Specification | NO | 126.2 | KITCHEN UNIT:RENEW SINGLE WALL 600X300 900MM HIGH
Cited in French Doors: Cost & Sizes, Window Screen Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
- good RN-D2653H cited
The Joint Contracts Tribunal
The publisher's own product page for the JCT Home Owner contract variant intended for a home owner or occupier who has appointed a consultant to administer the contract on their behalf, which is the HO/C form as distinct from HO/B where the homeowner deals with the builder directly. It sits in JCT's Home Owner Contracts category, the suite JCT publishes specifically for domestic building work rather than commercial projects. Use this to confirm which JCT home owner form applies when a note tells a reader to put the job on a written standard contract.
Cited in Loft Conversion Quotes: Compare Builders, Avoid Overpaying.
- fair RN-K22APC cited
Citizens Advice
Citizens Advice guidance for England on what to do when work at home goes wrong. Says the problem must be taken up with the trader who arranged the work even if they subcontracted all or part of it, and to gather paperwork and receipts, take photographs as evidence and note dates and times first. Where the job is poor, it explains that the Consumer Rights Act 2015 requires reasonable care and skill and gives the consumer the right to ask the trader to fix the problem where goods were supplied with the service, or to get a refund and stop the trader doing more work where only a service was supplied. Provides wording a homeowner can use when complaining, suggests asking for money off for inconvenience such as 5% of the cost as a goodwill gesture, and states the trader should fix the problem within a reasonable time and at no extra charge.
- very strong RN-4ATLE5
Building Control Northern Ireland (the 11 district councils)
NORTHERN IRELAND. The Northern Ireland Building Regulations are made by the Department of Finance and administered by the 11 DISTRICT COUNCILS, so there is no private sector alternative: Northern Ireland has no approved inspectors and no registered building control approvers, and the England route of appointing a private building control body simply does not exist. The page lists the Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 with the amending regulations of 2014, 2016 and 2022, and links the current and historical Technical Booklets plus the contraventions and appeals route. The regulations are intended to secure the safety, health, welfare and convenience of people in and around buildings and to further the conservation of fuel and energy. The site names all 11 councils including Belfast City, Derry City and Strabane, Lisburn and Castlereagh, Newry Mourne and Down, Mid Ulster and Fermanagh and Omagh.
- very strong RN-56GNUE
Building Safety Regulator (GOV.UK)
The Building Safety Regulator is an executive non-departmental public body sponsored by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government. Its remit is to regulate higher-risk buildings, raise safety standards for England's buildings and improve built environment competence across England and Wales. It is the body that holds and publishes the registers a homeowner can check: the register of building inspectors in England and the collection covering building control bodies and registered building control approvers. Its powers derive from the Building Safety Act 2022, which also sets the duties on accountable persons for high-rise residential buildings. Use this as the parent page when pointing a reader at the statutory registers rather than at a trade association's own directory.