Maybe some of our approved inspectors/building control officers would have
some good/bad examples!
Flick
At 14:20 25/11/2005 +0000, you wrote:
>Maybe, one way of addressing this vexing challenge is to look at things as
>'What does it cost to convert a building afterwards, as opposed to applied
>to the original design?'
>
>This may well not be the way many prefer looking at this issue, but it
>certainly makes those footing the bill, think twice! Other than the
>additional equipment such as rails and more specalised pieces of 'kit',
>locating something in a different position to the 'norm', (eg
>light-switches) isn't any more expensive, whereas changing the width of a
>door, afterwards rather than during the original build, is monsterously
>expensive, whilst the cost differencial between wider doors than normal
>width ones, (whatever they are!) might result in a variation of 1-2% of the
>total cost.
>
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