"RichardS" noaccess@invalid wrote in message
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"neil leslie" wrote in message
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The previous owner of my flat blocked up the origianl kitchen door t
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Ye gods, this is just plain crazyness!

As others have said, if your window handle is 1.7m then you could split the
door moving and kitchen refit into two distinct and separate projects. AFAIK
a kitchen refit doesn't require building regs!

If BC won't accept that, or it is impractical to move the door without
knobbling your present kitchen, then you could always fit a sacraficial
cheap-as-chips kitchen that does not impede the window - site the sink just
to the left or right if possible. You ought to be able to pick up some
dreadful affair for a couple of hundred quid.

Then, after the work is signed off you can decide that you hate the new
kitchen and refit with the one you originally wanted... May be a worthwhile
extra cost to get exactly what you wanted, and you have the BC signoff for
the alteration work.

Richard Sampson


You need your wrist smacked for suggesting something like that, when it's a lot
easier to ignore the stupid BC guy that even suggested the requirement in the
first place. As long as you can reach the window and be able to open it fully
for cleaning, and not put yourself or others in danger while doing so, then
there is nothing to stop you putting anything in front of the window that is
easily removed to allow you in to clean it.

You can even place a huge cupboard in front of the window if you wanted, and
thing only thing you'd have to prove is that it is easily removed from that
position and allows you in to the window so you can open it up and clean the
outside.

If you fixed units below the height of the inner sill, then you have to prove
that the fixed units will bear the weight of someone climbing onto and sitting
down on them for purposes of cleaning the window. Which, if installed
correctly, most kitchen units and worktops will do without any problems.

You may have to check which taps you buy for the kitchen sink, and where the
taps are positioned in relation the fully opening part of the window though.
Some mixer taps with single spouts may encroach into the window opening area and
prevent fully opening it, but this is easily remedied by making the window
itself rise higher so it clears the top of the taps.


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