On Sep 13, 3:50*pm, fred wrote:
On Thursday, September 13, 2012 2:17:25 PM UTC+1, Martin Bonner wrote:
On Thursday, September 13, 2012 1:44:59 PM UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

You don't need architect's 'design' to discover a bathroom or bedroom is

too small.

Or a path on the first floor.

A scale drawing most could do on a computer would show that.

You might have needed an architect (or similarly clued up person), to notice that the floor timbers for the first floor could/should be built *in* the depth of the supporting steels (rather than on top). *That would have allowed the ceiling to leave rather more space above the tops of the windows.

If he hadn't wasted so much money knocking stuff down and rebuilding it, he could have got quite a bit further with the money he was loaned - and I wonder if he might have found it easier to borrow the rest too.

Was anyone surprised the banks would advance him no more money? Would you ?
No qualified contracts manager,Nn architect, and a client with his head up his arse. You'd have to be mad.-

And no obvious means of paying it back.