Steps for rear doors into garden - building regs

[Bert Coules]

Things would still be very tight. But it is a possibility. Thanks.

[Bert Coules]

Thanks for the link but the document is tricky to read on my desktop screen as the left-hand edge of the text is masked by the menu and I can't see how to minimise it. Changing the zoom setting only reveals the entire width of the text once it's reached too small a size make out. I'll persevere.

[Bert Coules]

Ah, I've now found the button to minimise the menu. Perseverance pays.

[Andy Burns]

Depending on your PDF viewer, toggle off the bookmarks panel

[Bert Coules]

Andy, thanks for that. Our posts overlapped: I managed to sort it out just before I read your message.

[Bert Coules]

Unless I'm missing it (which is entirely likely) I can't see anything there which specifically relates to outside steps and landing size, but I found at least one other site which specifies a minimum exterior landing depth of

36".

I had been thinking of a comparatively open, perhaps iron-work, set of steps (with handrails) on pillars, but a three-foot landing will surely need something rather more substantial and solid. How is something like that built onto a property without compromising the damp-proof course? Does there have to be a small but definite gap between it and the building's wall? I'll investigate.

[John Kenyon]

What do the Building Regulations "Access to and use of buildings: Approved Document M" say?

[Bert Coules]

Having only looked at Document K, I've no idea; I'll take a look. Thanks.

[Chris J Dixon]

That may be the case, but why do this?

Chris

[Bert Coules]

Unless they imagined they were getting the best of both worlds, that does seem a distinctly odd bit of construction. Perhaps they thought that the requirement of a ramp up to the door didn't mean that it had to begin at pavement level...

[dennis]

Because they aren't clever enough to build the ramp the other way and not need the steps.

[Steve Walker]

Someone has probably got the ground levels wrong and so designed the ramp going in the wrong direction and the builders have followed the plan and then done their best to make it usable.

SteveW