"Chris J Dixon" wrote in message
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How is it that so many "designer" homes, often of the type shown
on TV or in the glossies, completely ignore these requirements?
I've lost count of the number of times I have had a dig in the
ribs from SWMBO for muttering *Building Regs" on seeing them.

Too true. We'd love to do something like these, often new-built properties
and therefore definitely seen by a BCO but my BCO even measures the
head-height to a half mm !