Building Regulations
If you are employing us as your builder or anyone else, the responsibility usually will be yours (unless stated otherwise) as to how the building regulatory system and material applies to your situation as you are responsible for making sure that the work complies with the building regulations.
Are Services (a trading name of Efficient Building Group Ltd) will do our best to ensure a fast and professional delivery of your project but we can only do this without being bogged down with paperwork. We want to focus on doing the job to the best that we can. If you need us to remodel a kitchen or bathroom that involves removing any load bearing walls you should check this blog post Kitchen Remodelling and extentions first and put as much information as you can as to what you need from the project in our Quotation form.
You should also bear in mind that if you are the owner of the building, it is ultimately you who may be served with an enforcement notice if the work does not comply with the regulations so it is best to check everything with the local authority if in doubt as they will be the best point of contact to guide you.
Check our post on Planning Permission here which also has a local authority locator tool.
However, if any of these building works as defined here, are part of your plan then it must comply with the building regulations.
This means that the regulations will probably apply if you want to:
*Put up a new building
*Extend or alter an existing one
*Provide services and/or fittings in a building such as washing and sanitary facilities, hot water cylinders, foul water and rainwater drainage, replacement windows, and fuel-burning appliances of any type.
Please see what the latest regulations are by clicking Building Regulations.
You can also check what works are exempt from the whole of the regulations, others are only exempt from certain aspects. Even if exempt from the regulations, work may still require planning permission. To check click Planning Permissions.
Also check this: Difference between building regulations and planning permission.