Legal advice please

zoob

Building regulation BS8204 for England and Wales say a minimum depth of screed for light or domestic loading is 65mm.

Poppie68

BykerSands wrote: »

So what did you actually mean when you wrote?

Hollydays was asking a simple question obviously just wanting some clarity. Stop trying to start an argument and turn someone else's thread into a battle ground..If you don't like someone else's questions either keep stum or add them to your ignore list......

Latazza

Poppie68 wrote: »

Hollydays was asking a simple question obviously just wanting some clarity. Stop trying to start an argument and turn someone else's thread into a battle ground..If you don't like someone else's questions either keep stum or add them to your ignore list......

Exactly this and was quite clear that was the reason they were asking for

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zoob wrote: »

Building regulation BS8204 for England and Wales say a minimum depth of screed for light or domestic loading is 65mm.

Presumably this is the current building regulation. As we don't know the age of the house, it's impossible to say what regulations were in force at the time it was built.

In any case, given that many homes won't meet the exact building regulation requirements, and given how easy it is to check for buried pipes, the fitters should surely have checked - better safe than sorry.

atrixblue.-MFR-.

I used to work under contract for my local water authority in the leak detection department, It was my job to find leaks on all water services INC private service line and internal home leaks.


Some service lines are barely under the sub-screed especially in older houses where the practice of putting services under the dwelling rather than through a hallway first came about.


We would often detect a internal leak on a service in screed rather than above ground level, due to the fact its not even an inch below surface and someone has punctured it!

Marktheshark

Screed depths refer to structural loading recommendation, water pipes are often laid in to the screed, sometimes the screed is channels and pipes laid and filled in.
Sticking nails blindly where you dont know will catty a risk, one that the carpet fitter decided to take.
This time it did not pay off, he has a duty of care to make good the loss caused