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Understanding certificates, declarations and what homeowners may be asked to sign.
Compliance declarations are the certificates trades issue saying their own work meets the rules. They sit at the heart of how UK Building Control actually functions.
If a contractor asks you — the homeowner — to sign a declaration, stop. Read what it actually says first.
Under the CDM Regulations and the Building Regulations, the homeowner carries duties they rarely realise they have.
The Principal Designer role exists under both CDM 2015 and the post-Grenfell Building Safety regime. Here is what it actually involves.
Who actually runs the site, and what their legal duties look like.
It depends what you are being asked to sign. Refusing to sign the wrong document is often the right call.
The statutory document that proves your project complies. It sits at the centre of the handover pack.
Client, Principal Designer, Principal Contractor, contractors and designers. Here is how the dutyholder map looks on a domestic project.
The questions we get asked most often about declarations, certificates and what they actually prove.
A simple checklist to run through at the end of any residential project, before final payment.
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47 pages. Real photos. The 12 mistakes we see homeowners make every week — and how to spot them before they cost you thousands.