Building Regs certificate

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Simon-k41v9

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218 posts

58 months

Friday 19th April
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Can anyone offer some advice please - recently had an extension completed, where does the certificate for building regulations come from? Yet to receive and feel like Im getting fobbed off.
have had final inspection from building control.

Builder? Building Control? or somewhere else?

Chipstick

318 posts

41 months

Friday 19th April
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I received my completion certificate for an extension via email shortly after the final inspection visit.

Was sent by building control. Did you submit the application or did your builder?


Terminator X

15,103 posts

205 months

Friday 19th April
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Tell the builder you won't pay them until the Certificate turns up. They need to chase it if not already doing that.

TX.

James6112

4,383 posts

29 months

Friday 19th April
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Mine took a couple of months, due to the building control officer leaving & not handing it over to anyone. Sat in a dead mailbox no doubt!
Luckily out architect/agent knew the building control boss & he soon got it sorted for us.
The completion certificate was then visible to us on our council website.
I was also sent the pdf


Edited by James6112 on Friday 19th April 17:05

Wombat3

12,171 posts

207 months

Friday 19th April
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It will come from whoever the building inspector is.

That might be the local council, it might be a 3rd party company that was engaged by the builder. (I've had both)

Last extension I did the builder just never seemed to get around to getting the final inspection done so eventually I contacted the local council BCO officer myself & they came round, did the inspection, signed it off and sent the certificate.

smokey mow

914 posts

201 months

Friday 19th April
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Simon-k41v9 said:
Can anyone offer some advice please - recently had an extension completed, where does the certificate for building regulations come from? Yet to receive and feel like Im getting fobbed off.
have had final inspection from building control.

Builder? Building Control? or somewhere else?
It will come from whoever you appointed to do your building control once they are satisfied that the works are compliant.

Why do you feel you are being fobbed off? Who did you ask about it and what did they say?

If you’ve not received it yet, then the most likely scenario is that there is something outstanding, such as certificates that still need to be provided or defects that need to be resolved.

The Three D Mucketeer

5,867 posts

228 months

Friday 19th April
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Shouldn't the Building Control Officer inspect the foundations before you start building ?

AWRacing

1,713 posts

226 months

Friday 19th April
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The Three D Mucketeer said:
Shouldn't the Building Control Officer inspect the foundations before you start building ?
Whats that got to do with the OPs query?
Hes had the final inspection so one would assume he has had all the other inspections along the way.

From memory our took a few weeks to come through OP

The Three D Mucketeer

5,867 posts

228 months

Friday 19th April
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AWRacing said:
The Three D Mucketeer said:
Shouldn't the Building Control Officer inspect the foundations before you start building ?
Whats that got to do with the OPs query?
Hes had the final inspection so one would assume he has had all the other inspections along the way.

From memory our took a few weeks to come through OP
Sorry missed that ... Just that I appointed the building control officer myself , not the builder in my case.

Simon-k41v9

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218 posts

58 months

Wednesday 24th April
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appreciate replies

We had work completed in Feb, the builder took the lead with the building control. I now know that the final certificate is yet to be received as yet as building control are still waiting for information from the builder. The builder is currently ignoring me and not communicating.

So I now have the laborious job of chasing them every week until they do what they need to do.

Wombat3

12,171 posts

207 months

Wednesday 24th April
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Simon-k41v9 said:
appreciate replies

We had work completed in Feb, the builder took the lead with the building control. I now know that the final certificate is yet to be received as yet as building control are still waiting for information from the builder. The builder is currently ignoring me and not communicating.

So I now have the laborious job of chasing them every week until they do what they need to do.
See above, have you talked to the BCO yourself? If not then try that, it might well be just a matter of arranging an inspection. If they are waiting for some info then it might be something like the Part P from the electrician. If so, again, go directly to the electrician

M1AGM

2,356 posts

33 months

Wednesday 24th April
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Wombat3 said:
Simon-k41v9 said:
appreciate replies

We had work completed in Feb, the builder took the lead with the building control. I now know that the final certificate is yet to be received as yet as building control are still waiting for information from the builder. The builder is currently ignoring me and not communicating.

So I now have the laborious job of chasing them every week until they do what they need to do.
See above, have you talked to the BCO yourself? If not then try that, it might well be just a matter of arranging an inspection. If they are waiting for some info then it might be something like the Part P from the electrician. If so, again, go directly to the electrician
I’d recommend dealing with BC yourself also. I had a major problem with the ‘builder’ I used in 2022. I should have known better but the conman who calls himself a builder did not keep BC informed of any progress during the build and I found this out at the end. A long chat with the BCO to explain the circumstances, and a site visit later, he signed everything off based on my word that various things had been done and a few pics I took by chance, thankfully!

astroarcadia

1,711 posts

201 months

Wednesday 24th April
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Have you signed a Notice of Completion?

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