Legal and safety

No approval or certification

The site does not grant building regulations approval, confirm compliance, issue certificates, approve plans, inspect work or replace your building control body. Tool results are route prompts for your next conversation.

Professional and building-control advice

Structural alterations, fire safety, drainage, ventilation, energy performance, electrical work, heating work and historic missing certificates may need competent designers, engineers, installers, surveyors or building control input before work starts.

Jurisdiction and source limits

Most launch content is England-first. Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland use different source material, language and approval routes. Re-check the official source links and version dates before relying on any page.

Approved Documents are practical guidance on ways to meet building regulations in England. They are not the only possible route to compliance, and version timing can matter. If a page mentions Part F, Part L, fire safety or higher-risk buildings, use the source panel as a prompt to verify the current document before acting.

What to verify before acting

Before work starts, verify the current official source, the project location, the exact scope, who is making any application, who is certifying controlled services, what inspection stages are expected and what final paperwork should be issued. Those checks matter more than a generic yes/no answer.

For historic work, verify dates, available records, installer details, photos, invoices and whether local authority regularisation is even the relevant route. Do not assume a missing certificate can always be recreated cleanly after the event.

Higher-risk buildings

If a project may involve a higher-risk building, a flat/block, major fire-safety implications or work outside an ordinary homeowner route, stop and use specialist or regulator guidance. The site intentionally avoids turning those cases into a simple DIY answer.

Local-only dashboard privacy

The starter dashboard stores saved results in your browser localStorage only. There is no account, no server-side project storage and no backend database in this build.

Do not enter sensitive personal data into saved notes. Treat local saved results as a convenience for your own device, not as a secure project-management system or a formal building-control record.

Advertising, leads and independence

This starter build has no paid lead routing, login wall or contractor recommendation engine. If those features are added later, they should be clearly labelled and kept separate from source-backed regulatory guidance.