Comments on: Getting the Building Regulations just right! http://paulmcalenan.co.uk/getting-the-building-regulations-just-right/ Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:12:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Roger Whitfield http://paulmcalenan.co.uk/getting-the-building-regulations-just-right/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Roger Whitfield Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:12:33 +0000 http://www.paulmcalenan.co.uk/?p=562#comment-2 This self-certification business usually seems to mean that you have to buy in to a scheme, eg for glazing (windows / doors) it is FENSA. You really need to be a specialist to want to do that. Fees, paperwork, groans. As far as insulation is concerned it is no doubt better to specify in excess of current regs. Interesting article by Mark Siddall on thermal bypass - then take a building site at random and inspect the standard of insulation installation detailing - gaps everywhere, which will however get approved by BC - thus evn just following the regs amounts to mere tokenism. This self-certification business usually seems to mean that you have to buy in to a scheme, eg for glazing (windows / doors) it is FENSA. You really need to be a specialist to want to do that. Fees, paperwork, groans.

As far as insulation is concerned it is no doubt better to specify in excess of current regs. Interesting article by Mark Siddall on thermal bypass – then take a building site at random and inspect the standard of insulation installation detailing – gaps everywhere, which will however get approved by BC – thus evn just following the regs amounts to mere tokenism.

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