View Single Post
  #13   Report Post  
Posted to uk.d-i-y
Bob Mannix Bob Mannix is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 1,066
Default eco-barge from C4's "Grand Designs" last night.


"Huge" wrote in message
...
On 2007-03-15, Brian Sharrock wrote:

"Huge" wrote in message
...
On 2007-03-15, sm_jamieson wrote:

I
also wondered what the building regs are for house-boats.

There aren't any. That point was made repeatedly in the programme.


This statement needs to tempered with the estate Agent's favourite
mantra;-
location, location. location. Some 'authorities' such as those in charge
of
the non-tidal Thanes have very strict regulations. Particularly those
regulations concerning sewage.


Not that I'd want to live in a floating Nissan hut on a mudbank,
anyway. Have you smelt a mudbank in high summer?


Aye, a Nissen hut would have been bad enough but a hut made in Japan....
)


--
Bob Mannix
(anti-spam is as easy as 1-2-3 - not)