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Generally the opposite. It adds value if done well.

Gas strut?

Sarcasm! The lowest form of wit! Period joinery just happens to have been my speciality since about 1986 and I've spent most of my working life in period buildings and improving/living in them too. Mostly sash windows and panel doors, all over the place. Biggest job was in County Mayo, mainly 15...

Sounds like a timid conservation officer, possibly new on the job? At least they are giving you the option to use your own judgement, then it's up to you to convince them. Often there is no right or wrong as the building may have had many changes, without there being a definitive "original"...

Nice one! The secret with a building like that, before doing anything else at all, is to do a very detailed survey and record of everything possible. Photograph every inch, measure and draw everything possible, such that even if a bomb dropped on it you could in theory reproduce something very...

We didn't need trickle vents with our new chapel windows as they all had small opening lights - well fitted but without draught seals. Classed as a "leaky" building by one expert. Wasn't particularly draughty.

My last big job was a chapel conversion and we replaced all the windows with new replicas single glazed and re-used all the old glass throughout. Massive area of single glazed glass mostly 3mm or less, and it looked spectacular. Conservationists were pleased and we had several visits from other...

Local planning authority looks after conservation areas and listed buildings. Same people. I didn't realise this was controversial! :unsure:

Not their job of course but very likely to have some knowledge and experience of other issues, if they've been in the job long enough. PS in fact they can be a fount of knowledge with all sorts of helpful advice.

Why bother? :rolleyes: I am not completely wrong at all. I've found very often that BCO and conservationists are aware of each other on particular projects and the possibility of there being conflicts of interest, or interests in common - a question to one might get you referred to the other...

I am doing.

It's a moving circus, more easily "described" (not "defined") as a tendency or direction, rather than a specific formula. People seem to make up their own definitions and scare themselves to bits, as we see in earlier posts. Easiest of all might be to forget the whole idea and simply ask how we...

I doubt it but just ask the estate agent or your BCO. They aren't out to get you. They do look horrible though - I'd replace them a.s.a.p! PS and that horrible front door! End of terrace means a cold gable end wall - damp may be condensation and would ease off if the place lived in and warmed up...

If you like the place then go for it. Conservation and planning control can be helpful, not necessarily something to worry about. I've worked my way through 3 derelict dumps of my own in conservation areas so far. No special probs everything worked out fine, as long as you are into conservation...

Re cycle old cutlery?

No, just bored. No point in trying to rant louder than a ranting zealot. I think you might have to work it out for yourself as you seem to have ranted yourself into a corner. Anything we say will just be water off a duck's back and get you in a tizz! :ROFLMAO:

Probably to press the ignore button. You seem to be a slightly hysterical tub-thumping fundamentalist with nothing interesting to say.

Not grammatical. Did you mean "the apocalypse will be a singular event"? "Apocalyptic" is OK and makes sense though. It matches your tub-thumping fundamentalist style. Neither Cambodia or Romania were remotely socialist, in the European sense of the idea. They'd probably call themselves...

You did. You are equating them with your apocalyptic view of Marxism.

What would you say are the alternatives to our evil National Health Service and other evil state institutions looking after the health, education and welfare of the population, and the many other infrastructure necessities of life?