I've just been to the contract appointment but it wasn't successful bcos of some reasons. Below is the questions where I don't get satisfactory answer from PD. I'd really appreciate if anyone could help me with these:
1. I can't have eaves on side boundaries bcos there needs to be natural lights for the bedrooms. But based on BCA 3.8.4.2, the natural lights provision just states that the window size will need to be at least 10% of the room floor area and the window needs to be at least 900mm from the boundaries, which I satisfy both the requirements. It doesn't mention anything about the eaves.
2. The max length of glass splashback they told me is just 3.6m. I believe it should be 4.3m, isn't it? How could I persuade them to do that? Mine is just 4m.
Many thanks
I checked our notes from 12 months ago, and we were advised 4.3m with no cut outs. Otherwise, 3.3m with cut outs. Our splashback needed to be a length of 4.5m, so we ended up putting the join to one end and chose the end that met a wall, and aligned it to the last set of cupboards. So our single piece is 3.7m. We were not thrilled about it. We added a splashback to the adjoining wall, to give it a "corner" look, and plan to place items such as toaster/kettle there, and hopefully minimise the visibility of the join. Maybe in a month or so I might be able post a picture of how it looks in reality compared to the plan below.
Splashback Drawing