Tony

Hi,

I bought my house about 12 months ago, it was always going to be a project as it needed loads doing to it. The stairs were covered by a plyboard kind of thing which i have now ripped off with the intention of sorting it out but i think i have opened a can of worms...

To get the stairs done is not going to be cheap, but im wondering if it would pass building regs if the spindles were nailed/glued at the top and bottom rather than being held by glue/nails and spacers. I know the spacing requirements but i cant find anything that says how they have to be held in.

My intention is to probably rent it out in the next 12 months or possibly sell once its done, so it does need to pass.

Cheers

Hi,

I have been doing some work on my house, i pulled off some wood around the stairs under the banister thing which was there when i bought it with the intention of putting spindles there.

The problem is i have opened a can of worms and it would cost me in the region of £400-600 to put spindles in as i have to pretty much have the whole banister re-done.

I have been looking at alternatives and one that i came across was to have a bit piece of perspex in the gap secured by some hinge type things. I was looking at toughened glass but i think that will just be too expensive so then i thought thick perspex might do the job at a fraction of the cost.

Im just wondering what peoples thoughts are and whether they think it will work and if so if they can point me in the right direction of what i need.

Cheers

Its not often i ask questions on here, but i have one on behalf of a client of mine...

A couple:

One of them put down £18k deposit on a house.

The other put down £1k as a deposit.

Purchase price approx £90k.

Both have paid there or there abouts 50% to all of the bills.

My outlook was partner a takes the first £18k, partner b takes the next £1k the rest to be shared 50/50.

Partner a is saying if they never put down £18k, the rate would have been higher and so this saved partner b money.

So you good people of yahoo answers, what is your outlook?

There are no right/wrong answers, my clients will be sorting it out through solicitors but i just wanted to see what other peoples thoughts are.