A few d glazing/glass questions

[dave]

I recently (3 weeks ago) had a old wooden bedrooom window frame replaced by a dg one. The company did a good job and we are happy with it. A couple of days later they sent us a fensa cert and some documentation describing the window (size/type etc etc). Since then, I heard that we should have notified the council first. Is this correct and should I do so in retrospect now?

Another "rumour" is that it is not possible to just go and buy a piece of glass from "Joe's glass shop" - the reason has to be specified!!!!!! I thought this a bit amazing (but this is NL Red-Britain) until yesterday I noticed Joe's shop had closed down. Coincidence or any truth in it?

(sigh) isn't it sooo difficult to do anything legal any more!

[Poppa]

AFAIK, it 'depends'. You may be in a conservation area, or there may be some covenant on the property, in which case you will need planning permision. I have a flat that is about 20years old & I would need to apply for planning permission to change the windows.

Probably best to ring & check.

Dom.

[Hugo Nebula]

FENSA is a self-certification scheme that by-passes the requirement to give a notice to your Council. FENSA should also notify them that they have certified this work, but usually this is after the event.

If you wish you could check with your Council that they have a FENSA notice for your property, but I'd leave it for a few months.

[Tim S]

dave coughed up some electrons that declared:

Fortunately, this is not true (yet). I've been getting quotations quite happily for supply only for DG units from several glass merchants. They know I'm not FENSA.

According to a paper I saw today, some cretin in government is seriously proposing planning permission being required to plant a lawn.

It wasn't the Mail, but it wasn't a broadsheet either.

Cheers

Tim

[Owain]

Some applications require laminated/toughened or other form of safety glass so Joe would need to ask whether this is eg for a glazed door or a toilet window

Owain

[Mary Fisher]

A toilet window?

Are you suggesting that requires special glass? If so, why?

Mary

[dennis]

So they can see you.

[R D S]

The guy I have always bought glass from recently sold his business and emigrated. He couldn't be arsed with all the regs/certs and assoiciated hassle/expense.

[Owain]

No, sorry, a glazed door would require safety glass, a small (toilet) window not at low level would not.

Owain

[dave]

I know the feeling (not glass related but...). Anyway, all I wanted was some glass to replace greenhouse panes.

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Sure it wasn't to *remove* a lawn and replace it with a patio?

[Dave]

Wife has been going on at me for months to get rid of a green house I bought when I took early retirement in 1999. I wrapped up the ali frame and took it to the recycle centre and took a break before taking the glass. The glass took me 4 days to get rid of cos of my ageing back.

I was in asda the day after and when I was asked if I wanted any help with packing 2 bottles of anaesthetic (Scotch, of course), I mentioned that I wanted help for by back that was as stiff as a board after dumping all the glass. Check out girl turned round and asked me if I knew anyone that was selling a green house, as her father was looking for one for his allotment. If her father had advertised that he wanted one, he could have saved me several trips to the tip and saved me from having a bad back for over a week.

Dave

[Kevin]

I did read online today (but cant find the page now) that they want us to dig up lawns and fast growing plants to save water, it was a slow day and I surfed quite a bit

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Are they on the same planet as the rest of us?

[Dave]

Wasn't it a few weeks ago that .gov wanted us to stop laying water proof gardens so that the water had somewhere to soak into the ground?

Dave

[Tim S]

Dave Plowman (News) coughed up some electrons that declared:

No, they've already done that (well, from Oct 08).

This was undoubtedly a Mail-esk scare story, but in the Express now I come to think of it.

Here we go:

's probably bollocks and at a stage where someone's just proposed a stupid idea, but given NuLabour's recent performance, anything's possible.

And it comes straight from the Department for the Elimination of Farming and Rural Affairs. Obviously run out of ways to torture the few remaining farmers, so they fancy widening their scope.

I like this quote:

"They say that lawns need extensive watering and people toss cut grass in with normal household waste."

Second point, bollocks.

First point - I will personally thump anyone who continues to claim water is a scare commodity in the UK.

Cheers

Tim

[dennis]

It is in the SE and that is the UK as far as the politicians are concerned.

Maybe if house prices crash they will buy some land and build a reservoir or two?

[Bruce]

Who are "they"?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

I dunno - ask Kevin.

[Man at B&Q]

Or if *you* had advertised you had one available, you could have saved

*yourself* several trips to the tip and saved *yourself* from having a bad back for over a week.

Should have put it on Freecycle.

MBQ