Home Page About DM Designs How We Can Help Case Studies Testimonials Contact Us To achieve a design which meets your ideas and dreams. How we can help in designing your building The process to take your dream into an actual building can be quite daunting - here we explain a little more about the process and how DM Design can help. Scale Floor Plans and Elevation Drawings Once we have established your requirements, we will make sketches of the site and of the relevant floors/elevations of the property. We then take the necessary measurements in millimetres, required to produce the plans accurately to scale on AutoCAD. We will also take photographs of the property in order to assist with the drafting process, these can also be used as additional information with the planning application if necessary. Once we have produced existing site sketches we will discuss the proposed design in order to obtain enough information to represent this accurately on the drawings. We will then make a further appointment to discuss details further. If you would like us to complete your planning application then this will also be done at this point. We create plans to the correct scale and on the correct paper size required by your particular council, usually A0 or A1 paper size. We will contact the council before we commence the works to ascertain their exact requirements. Guidance/Assistance will be offered where required throughout the entire process. Scale Plans It is a requirement of the Planning process to submit scale drawings of the proposed modification. Many people are perfectly happy to sketch out their ideas, but most do not have the facilities to draw these at the required scale. This is where DM Designs can help. We will visit your property to discuss your proposed development, taking site sketches, measurements and photographs to support the drafting process. A draft copy of the plans will be forwarded to you for your approval. Final copies can then be supplied in electronic and paper format. For applications in paper format, five copies of all documents are required (application form, scale drawings and OS map). Most of the local planning authorities in England & Wales will now accept drawings submitted electronically. Providing the drawings in this way saves both time and cost. Once we have sent you a draft copy of your drawings we will make any required alterations and there will be no cost to yourself until you are happy with our work. Following submission of the planning application, should any minor alterations be required by the Planning Office then these will be supplied electronically at no extra cost. Specification Notes Ceilings Constructed in 12.5mm Foil Backed Pasterboard and skinned usingthistle multi-finish plaster with ninonum 200mm thk fibreglass quilt insulation over laid between ceiling joists. A minimum of 50 mm must be maintained at eaves above instillation to allow airflow into the roof void. Patented roof vents to be fitted to roof slope to give minimum or 2500 mm square event area per metre of roof to give crossflow ventilation to roof space. The damp proof membrane must run continuously with the external wall damp proof course damp trays and flashing is to be provided in code 4 lead and installed as per the Lead Development Association requirements minimum of 150 mm lead up stand is required where a wall and roof junction occurs above which a continuous lead to damp tray must be fitted within the cavity walls Cavity Walls To be constructed in concrete block skin to match existing where applicable with a 70 mm wide cavity with 9 Nbr galvanised steel wall tie per metre square wall area and inner skin of 100 mm insulation blocks and 12.5 mm render and skin using Thistle multi-finish plaster to in the face. Coveted the to be lined with cavity rock wall bats installation manufactured recommendation with the washers gold bridging at reveals will be cavity poses Roof New roof construction as per existing mild steel restraint drilled to walls with plugs and screws ceiling joists 150 x 50 millimetres at maximum 400 mm centres. Fixed in main walls or joist hangars. Ventilation to habitable rooms to be not less than a 20th of the total floor area a minimum of three air changes per hour. Trickle vents to be fitted to all windows and to all habitable rooms to give background ventilation area. 800 mm square safety glass to be provided to all critical area windows to be see glass and 16mm air gap between panes. New extension outside to render smooth.