Been hearing rumors that conservitaries will be under building control in
2006 .

I there any truth to the rumors ?

Thanks

The message
from "none" contains these words:

Been hearing rumors that conservitaries will be under building control in
2006 .

Depending on circumstances, they have been for ages. Do you mean /all/
conservatories?

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On Tue, 6 Jun 2006 08:57:42 +0100, none wrote
(in article ):

Been hearing rumors that conservitaries will be under building control in
2006 .

I there any truth to the rumors ?

Thanks



Try a phone call to Mr Prescott, it's his department.

Ooops.... it's not any more.

Do you live at Dorneywood at all?

Ah. that doesn't concern him either.

Hopefully at least you are gainfully employed.......

This rumour has been going around for ages. The main angle was in
connection with energy conservation rather than safety. There is little
evidence of conservatories falling down and killing people, but of course one
can employ dozens of statistics officers to calculate that conservatories
under building control always rather than some exemptions could theoretically
prevent 0.00000001 degree global temperature rise.

Conservatories below a certain size are exempt currently and this represents
the vast majority. It's difficult to see what could be done in terms of
building control that hasn't been already that would make an energy saving or
any other difference.

They are what they are.

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from Andy Hall contains these words:

Conservatories below a certain size are exempt currently and this
represents
the vast majority. It's difficult to see what could be done in terms of
building control that hasn't been already that would make an energy
saving or
any other difference.


There are complications though. A conservatory has to have a translucent
roof if you want to keep BC from your door. And not be connected to the
rest of the house by other than an exterior grade double-glazed
draughtproofed door and windows.
You can't put up a conservatory with a tiled roof[1] and knock out the
doors and windows, 'cos that's an extension[2].

[1] Unless you can find translucent tiles, of course.

[2] The woman from the planning dept. who came to visit my conservatory
proposal said "This is an extension, isn't it?" I sort of prevaricated a
bit and she said it didn't matter as long as I jumped through all the
hoops and didn't knock out the doors and windows to the house and as
long as it had a translucent roof.
Quite how translucent it has to be, I don't know.

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Skipweasel
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