On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 22:47:35 +0100, Frank Erskine wrote:

On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 22:21:23 +0100, Chris Bacon
had this to say:

surveyor wrote:
Removing chimney breasts is notifiable work under Building Regulations
ie a building regs application should have been made.

How is Joe Bloggs supposed to know all this? It's easily within
the realms of D-I-Y, as is re-jigging bathrooms, doing drains,
and a host of other things.

The guvmint doesn't want people to do it themselves, does it?

It's not really diyers they want to stop (diy is unstoppable and
even penalties have little effect). It is clear that the main effect of
the legislation is to make self-employment a difficult and unattractive
business model.


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