Materials – Interior
333 sources in the library on materials – interior, 20 on this page cited in a published note. Each one says what the document covers and what it is good for. Name a source to see which document it is and where to read it. One at a time. Page 4 of 9.
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Toolstation
the retail price Toolstation publishes for the Double Roll Lining Paper 20m x 0.53m - 2000g, which is the supply figure the cost book records for this item
Cited in Wallpaper Types & Hanging Basics.
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Toolstation
Merchant product page for a 380 ml decorator's caulk showing its current price including VAT, within the note's decorator's caulk range.
Cited in Sealants & Caulk: Silicone vs Acrylic.
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Toolstation
Toolstation's product page for a single 350 ml tube of Evo-Stik Gripfill Solvent Free, priced at £5.49 including VAT (£4.57 ex VAT), inside the note's water-based range.
Cited in Grab Adhesive & Construction Adhesives.
- supplier figure RN-KZB8BY cited
Toolstation
the retail price Toolstation publishes for the Ideal Standard i.life compact basin and semi pedestal, which is the supply figure the cost book records for this item
Cited in Basins & Vanity Units: A Buyer's Guide.
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Toolstation
the retail price Toolstation publishes for the Maia Greystone Solid Surface Worktop 3600 x 600 x 42mm, which is the supply figure the cost book records for this item
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Toolstation
the retail price Toolstation publishes for the Maine Celyn Granite Composite Reversible Kitchen Sink & Drainer Small Single Bowl White, which is the supply figure the cost book records for this item
Cited in Kitchen Taps & Sinks: Buyer's Guide.
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Toolstation
the retail price Toolstation publishes for the Maine Coniston Reversible Stainless Steel Compact Kitchen Sink & Drainer Single Bowl, which is the supply figure the cost book records for this item
Cited in Kitchen Taps & Sinks: Buyer's Guide.
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Toolstation
the retail price Toolstation publishes for the Maine Stainless Steel Reversible Kitchen Sink & Drainer 1.5 Bowl, which is the supply figure the cost book records for this item
Cited in Kitchen Taps & Sinks: Buyer's Guide.
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Toolstation
A national merchant's product page for Mapei Keraquick Easy S1, a rapid-setting S1 flexible tile adhesive, 20 kg. It settles the price of £17.99 including VAT (£14.99 ex VAT).
Cited in Tile Adhesive & Grout Explained.
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Toolstation
Merchant product page for a 295 ml sanitary silicone cartridge showing its current price including VAT, which sits within the note's standard sanitary silicone range.
Cited in Reseal Bath Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide, Sealants & Caulk: Silicone vs Acrylic.
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Toolstation
Toolstation's product page for a single 290 ml cartridge of Soudal Fix ALL High Tack, priced at £7.49 including VAT (£6.24 ex VAT), inside the note's MS polymer range.
Cited in Grab Adhesive & Construction Adhesives.
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Travis Perkins
Travis Perkins product page for a single 18 mm 2440 x 1220 mm sheet of standard CaberMDF Trade board, showing a retail price of £38.60 per sheet.
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Travis Perkins
Merchant product page for moisture-resistant MDF. It states the MR grade is the one made for humid conditions such as kitchens, bathrooms and utility areas, as opposed to standard MDF.
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Travis Perkins
A builders' merchant's product page for a flush paint-grade internal fire door with 30 minutes' fire rating, 1981 x 762 x 44 mm. It lists a retail price of £80.62 each including VAT.
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Travis Perkins
A builders' merchant's product page for a primed four-panel moulded hollow-core internal door, 1981 x 762 x 35 mm. It lists a retail price of £50.38 each including VAT.
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Travis Perkins
A builders' merchant's product page for a white primed four-panel FD30 internal fire door, 1981 x 762 x 44 mm. It lists a retail price of £122.58 each including VAT.
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Wickes
Wickes' product page for the Knauf 12.5 mm tapered-edge Fire Panel, a fire-rated plasterboard sheet of 1,200 x 2,400 mm, showing its shelf price per sheet and per square metre.
Cited in Plasterboard Types & Sizes Explained.
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Wickes
Wickes' product page for the Knauf 12.5 mm tapered-edge Moisture Panel, a moisture-resistant plasterboard sheet of 1,200 x 2,400 mm, showing its shelf price per sheet and per square metre.
Cited in Plasterboard Types & Sizes Explained.
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Wickes
Wickes' product page for a single 27 mm Knauf XPS laminate insulated plasterboard at £58, the bottom of the note's £58–£61 range.
Cited in Plasterboard Types & Sizes Explained.
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Worktop City
the retailer's published size options and prices for a 12 mm Fenix NTM solid compact laminate worktop, including the 3000 x 645 x 12 mm sheet at GBP 577.12 and the 4100 x 645 x 12 mm sheet at GBP 930.20, which are two of the four published sheet prices the cost book divides by their stated lengths to get a rate per linear metre
Cited in Butcher Block Countertop Cost: 2026 UK Price Guide.
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Building Control Northern Ireland (the 11 district councils)
NORTHERN IRELAND. The Northern Ireland Building Regulations are made by the Department of Finance and administered by the 11 DISTRICT COUNCILS, so there is no private sector alternative: Northern Ireland has no approved inspectors and no registered building control approvers, and the England route of appointing a private building control body simply does not exist. The page lists the Building Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2012 with the amending regulations of 2014, 2016 and 2022, and links the current and historical Technical Booklets plus the contraventions and appeals route. The regulations are intended to secure the safety, health, welfare and convenience of people in and around buildings and to further the conservation of fuel and energy. The site names all 11 councils including Belfast City, Derry City and Strabane, Lisburn and Castlereagh, Newry Mourne and Down, Mid Ulster and Fermanagh and Omagh.
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Department for Business and Trade
The UK regulator a note should name when it says a product has been recalled or is unsafe, rather than pointing at a retailer. Part of the Department for Business and Trade, its stated purpose is to protect people and places from product-related harm so consumers and businesses can buy and sell with confidence. It is the body behind the product recalls and alerts database, and the enforcement authority behind consumer product safety rules covering items a renovation buys, including corded internal blinds, electrical accessories and lighting.
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Health and Safety Executive
The figure that governs any dry cutting of a quartz or engineered stone worktop, and the one a fabricator should be asked about. INDG463, published 05/24. The Workplace Exposure Limit for respirable crystalline silica is 0.1 mg per cubic metre of respirable dust averaged over 8 hours, and control measures must be effective in keeping exposure below it. The leaflet tabulates crystalline silica content by material: artificial or engineered stone up to 95 per cent depending on the stone pieces or minerals used, sandstone, gritstone and quartzite above 70 per cent, mortar and concrete 25 to 70 per cent, shale 40 to 60 per cent, china stone up to 50 per cent, granite 20 to 45 per cent and typically 30 per cent, slate 20 to 40 per cent, ironstone up to 15 per cent. Employers must assess the risk, record it in writing where they employ more than five people, consider substituting a lower-silica material, control exposure by engineering means first, supply RPE only where engineering controls cannot do the job, face-fit test tight-fitting RPE on clean-shaven wearers, monitor to confirm the WEL is not exceeded, and arrange health surveillance where appropriate.
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Scottish Government
The classification table behind every reaction to fire claim on a floor covering, lining or insulation product sold in Scotland. Annex 2.B, Table 2.10, sets out the Euroclasses A1, A2, B, C, D, E and F and the test standards that produce them: A1 requires BS EN ISO 1182:2020 non-combustibility and BS EN ISO 1716:2018 gross heat of combustion; A2 requires BS EN ISO 1182:2020 or BS EN ISO 1716:2018 together with BS EN 13823:2020 the single burning item test; B, C and D require BS EN 13823:2020 with BS EN ISO 11925-2:2020 ignitability; E requires BS EN ISO 11925-2:2020 alone; F is no performance determined. The additional classifications differ by class: smoke production, the s1 to s3 suffix, and flaming droplets or particles, the d0 to d2 suffix, both apply to classes A2 to D, while classes E and F carry only the flaming droplets and particles classification. Note that floorings are classified on the same letters with an fl subscript, for example Cfl-s1, using the radiant panel test rather than the single burning item, so a product's wall class and its floor class are not interchangeable.
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Scottish Government
The 714-page handbook that carries Scotland's own numbers, which differ from England's. Table 4.3 sets private stair geometry at minimum rise 100 mm, maximum rise 220 mm, minimum going 225 mm, tread not less than the going and maximum pitch 42 degrees; Table 4.4 sets any other stair at maximum rise 170 mm, minimum going 250 mm and maximum pitch 34 degrees; going plus twice the rise must be between 550 mm and 700 mm, tapered treads at least 50 mm at the narrow end, a flight generally 3 to 16 rises. Table 4.5 puts effective width at 900 mm for a private stair, 800 mm where a continuous handrail is on both sides, 600 mm where it serves only sanitary accommodation or one room, and 1.0 m for any other stair, with stringer or newel projection no more than 30 mm. Clause 4.3.15 sets handrail height at 840 mm to 1.0 m above the pitch line, 4.3.16 headroom at 2.0 m, and 4.3.17 points spiral and helical stairs to BS 5395-2:1984. Table 5.1 sets separating element performance at 56 dB DnT,w airborne and 56 dB L'nT,w impact for new build, relaxed to 53 dB and 58 dB for conversions of traditional buildings.
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Scottish Government (gov.scot)
Scotland's equivalent of the Approved Documents, and the reason a note that quotes only English rules is wrong for a fifth of the UK. This edition is in force from 6 April 2026 and applies to building warrants submitted on or after that date and to work not requiring a warrant commenced from that date. It gives guidance on achieving the standards set in the Building (Scotland) Regulations 2004, arranged in sections rather than parts: section 3 environment (ventilation, drainage, condensation), section 4 safety (electrical safety and installations, glazing and danger from accidents, including clause 4.13 which invokes PAS 24 for security), section 6 energy (U-values for windows and doors) and section 7 sustainability. Scotland uses a building warrant and a completion certificate rather than a building notice, and has no Part P competent person scheme equivalent, so electrical work is covered by the warrant system instead.
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The National Archives (legislation.gov.uk)
SI 1988/1324, the flammability regime that applies to the soft furnishings and any loose upholstered elements a fitted-furniture project buys in. It revoked the Upholstered Furniture (Safety) Regulations 1980 and its 1983 amendment and imposes requirements on new domestic furniture, including garden furniture that may be used indoors and furniture for use in caravans, subject to exceptions for certain furniture. Some requirements also apply to second-hand furniture, and the regulations do not apply to goods for export. The point for a note is that these regulations bite on furniture supplied in the course of a business, not on the building fabric.
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Welsh Government
The Welsh fire safety guidance that governs fire doors, protected stairways and open plan layouts in Wales. First published 27 August 2015 and last updated 19 June 2025, it is issued as two PDFs, Approved Document B dwellinghouses at 5 MB and buildings other than dwellinghouses at 6 MB, and must be read with four amendment slips, the most recent applicable from 20 December 2025. A note that says an FD30 door is needed at the head or foot of a loft stair, or that an open plan ground floor triggers a sprinkler or an escape window, should cite the Welsh document for a Welsh reader.
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Welsh Government
The Welsh version of the sound insulation guidance that governs separating floors between flats and, in a converted house, between the new dwellings. First published 3 April 2017 and last updated 13 April 2022, with a 2 MB PDF and the September 2013 amendment slip. A note about acoustic underlay or soundproofing a floor should cite this for Wales, the Scottish Technical Handbook Section 5 for Scotland, and the English Approved Document E for England, because the required performance levels and the testing regimes are set separately in each nation.
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Welsh Government
Wales maintains its own set of Approved Documents, so a note on stair geometry, guarding or balustrade heights should cite the Welsh Part K for a Welsh reader rather than the English one. This page was first published 4 April 2017 and last updated 19 March 2025, and carries a 1 MB PDF of Approved Document K plus the September 2013 amendment slip that must be read with it.
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Welsh Government
The Welsh energy efficiency guidance, first published 14 June 2016 and last updated 7 April 2026. It carries volume 1 for dwellings and volume 2 for other buildings as current PDFs, and a new Approved Document L volume 1 for dwellings that takes effect on 4 March 2027. Any note quoting fabric U-value targets for a floor, wall, roof or a conservatory's thermal separation should state which nation the figure belongs to, since Wales publishes its own Part L with its own commencement dates rather than adopting the English edition.
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City of York Council
Factsheet RP3, Rechargeable repairs, a council publishing its own schedule. It binds in that district only, so it is cited as evidence of local charges and never as the authority for a national rule
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British Board of Agrément
The body behind the BBA Agrement certificate that manufacturers of insulation, membranes, adhesives and flooring systems quote, with a searchable MyBBA certificate database covering products, people certification and product testing. Carries an important current caveat a note should not miss: on 26 February 2026 the BBA was notified that UKAS had instigated a temporary suspension of its accreditation status following a change in corporate structure in 2025, meaning it is at present unable to deliver accredited testing, inspection and certification activities, with UKAS confirming the suspension covers all activity to BS EN ISO/IEC 17020, 17021, 17025 and 17065. Advice to look for a BBA certificate should be checked against that status.
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BSI
The older British test behind the familiar FD30 and FD60 labels on an internal fire door, a doorset having been tested to BS 476-22 for 30 or 60 minutes. The catalogue entry shows BS 476-22:1987 as current with a publication date of 31 December 2024 for the current issue, ISBN 978 0 539 34283 3, committee FSM/1, ICS 13.220.50. Its scope covers non-loadbearing walls, partitions, doorsets, shutters, ceilings and glazing. A note explaining a fire door label should pair it with BS EN 1634-1, the European test towards which UK certification is shifting.
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BSI
Part 2 of the BS 5385 tiling series, published 30 April 2015 and current, covering the design and installation of external ceramic, natural stone and mosaic wall tiling in normal conditions. Like the other parts it gives recommendations for exchange of information and time schedules, suitable materials, tile backgrounds and bases and their preparation, cement and sand rendering, movement joints, bedding methods for tiles and mosaics, grouting, protection, cleaning and maintenance. A note about tiling an outside wall, a porch or a splashback exposed to weather should cite this rather than BS 5385-1, which covers normal internal conditions.
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BSI
The manufacturing specification for a domestic timber staircase, published 30 June 1989 and still current. BS 585-1 sets materials and construction requirements for stairs built of timber, which may include plywood risers and treads, edge-to-edge jointed timber and glue-laminated components, for use inside one-family dwellings, and covers straight flights, winder flights and quarter or half landings. Its scope excludes open-riser stairs and stairs wider than 1.22 m, so a note on open-tread or wide feature stairs cannot rely on it.
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BSI
BS 8000-11:2011, published 31 January 2011, committee B/539, current. It gives recommendations on basic workmanship on building sites, both commercial and domestic, for the tasks frequently carried out in wall and floor tiling. It applies to fixing ceramic and agglomerated stone tiles, natural stone and terrazzo tiles and slabs, and mosaics to walls and floors using adhesive and mortar. It states plainly that its recommendations are not necessarily comprehensive and that a project specification might need to cover more. It signposts the rest of the family: design aspects of wall and floor tiling are in BS 5385, natural stone cladding and lining in BS 8298, and the harmonised product specifications are BS EN 12057 for natural stone tiles, BS EN 12058 for slabs, BS EN 14411 for ceramic tiles, BS EN 15285 for agglomerated stone and BS EN 12004 for adhesives, with BS EN 12440 for natural stone naming.
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BSI
The workmanship code that a joiner fitting alcove cupboards, wardrobes, skirting, architrave and door linings is expected to work to. BS 8000-5:1990, published 31 May 1990 and still listed as current, gives recommendations on basic site workmanship for carpentry, joinery and general fixings, including storage and handling of timber on site, nailing, accuracy and general fixings. Committee B/543, ISBN 0 580 18280 0, ICS 91.200.
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BSI
The long-standing dry lining and stud partition code, useful to cite but important to date correctly: BS 8212:1995 was published 15 January 1995 and was withdrawn on 25 January 2023, so a note should not present it as current practice. Its scope covers plasterboard wall and ceiling linings, partitions, fixings and nails, board thickness and mass, tolerances, and the fire resistance, sound insulation and thermal insulation contributions of plasterboard systems. Committee B/544, ICS 91.060.10.
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BSI
The standard behind internal noise level targets quoted for bedrooms and living rooms, published 28 February 2014 and current. BS 8233 gives guidance on the control of noise in and around buildings and applies to the design of new buildings and to refurbished buildings undergoing a change of use. It expressly does not cover assessing the effect of changes in external noise on occupants of an existing building, specialist applications such as auditoria and cinemas, which fall to BS ISO 9568, vibration control except where it appears as radiated sound, or noise breaking out of a building to external receptors. A note about soundproofing an existing room should therefore treat it as a design reference, not as a compliance test.