Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 9:29 pm
Hi All (waves). I'm considerably out of my comfort zone here so please excuse my niaivity but I'm hoping someone can help.
We've recently had an extension and installed some trifold doors. My vision (having watched far too many episodes of Grand Designs
) was to have a fairly seamless floor from inside to out and we bought sufficient non-slip tiles to do this.
We are now in a position to proceed with getting the outside done but seem to be running into difficulties with the DPC and the "150mm rule". I have had a look at the "Workarounds" suggested and it would seem that the 'alternative dry area arrangement' would mean that the floor level would then be the same as inside. However I'm not sure what to do with the gap - we have children under 5 so the fall potential is high!
We are not doing this as a DIY option. We will get someone in (not the previous builder) but so far everyone we have approached wants to do the standard arrangement which would be a crushing compromise.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading.
Sweets154
We've recently had an extension and installed some trifold doors. My vision (having watched far too many episodes of Grand Designs
) was to have a fairly seamless floor from inside to out and we bought sufficient non-slip tiles to do this.We are now in a position to proceed with getting the outside done but seem to be running into difficulties with the DPC and the "150mm rule". I have had a look at the "Workarounds" suggested and it would seem that the 'alternative dry area arrangement' would mean that the floor level would then be the same as inside. However I'm not sure what to do with the gap - we have children under 5 so the fall potential is high!
We are not doing this as a DIY option. We will get someone in (not the previous builder) but so far everyone we have approached wants to do the standard arrangement which would be a crushing compromise.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading.
Sweets154