Renovation newbie

[Fazabulous]

I’d be so grateful for any tips on here.
We’re having work done on the house in a few months. Up until now, we’ve moved up the chain to dodge refurb problems but there’s no getting away from it now!
The house is 60s with a 90s extension, all signed off and legit when we bought.
We’re not moving any boundary walls.
One internal wall is coming down, and one is going up elsewhere. Other than that there’s no big remodelling going on
Builder comes highly recommended so very hopeful.

So far my thoughts are:

1. Don’t need planning permission but need to make sure building regs are all sorted with relevant certificates
2. Need to inform mortgage company
3. Need to inform insurers

Is there anything else I should re the legals etc?

Also - for those of you who’ve done up a house while in situ, what do you wish you had/hadn’t done? Best way to clear out rooms etc?

Why do you need to inform the mortgage company?!

We’ve taken walls down before, the dust in INCREDIBLE. Whatever room it is, seal the door to the rest of the house using duct tape all around the edge and a tarp taped on internally. The builders can redo this every day if there’s only one access. Building control are usually very helpful to chat to if you have queries and go over the process with you, I made a mistake there as I let the builders liaise with BC for all the photos and visits and didn’t realise until about a year later that we’d forgotten to get the final sign off as I’d been distracted by my lovely new kitchen going in etc!

@AGreatUsername I just sort of assumed that you had to!
Really great idea about sealing off rooms, thank you so much 😊

You can buy plastic doors that you tape over the door frame and they have zipped doors inset into them. Not expensive. Make a huge difference to the awful dust!

@PragmaticWench oh my god can you?!?! I’m 3/4 way through a dreadful kitchen renovation right now and I so wish I’d found this out a few weeks ago! What a world.

@PragmaticWench you see I’ve never even heard of those and this is why I’m on here! I’m not really very practically minded so I’m really grateful for anyone taking the time to stop by and offer any advice.

You’ll be surprised what you can live without when it’s packed into a box you can’t get to the dust is horrific, expect everything to be coated and get plastic boxes with lids to store stuff in so it stays clean.

I really need to raise my game 😆

Watching with interest! Zip doors already an amazing and valuable tip!

Get a cheap builders hoover from Screwfix so you don’t wreck yours. We got one for about £40 which can deal with wet and dry and it’s utterly indestructible. If you want to clean up dust a light misting of water in the manner of room spray is helpful in keeping the clouds to a non-choking level.

www.screwfix.com/p/titan-ttb774vac-1300w-16ltr-wet-dry-vacuum-220-240v/826KH?tc=NT1&ds_kid=92700046638549236&ds_rl=1243318&ds_rl=1241687&ds_rl=1245250&ds_rl=1245250&gclid=Cj0KCQjw0K-HBhDDARIsAFJ6UGjOk9ntJVYmSqN61jOY72A_C4XYGEcDLMW44XeirptU1wmOENEyajIaAqDkEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

The Titan…sounds like a dildo, cleans like a dream

@BadgertheBodger
That is hilarious
For a moment I thought you were recommending a…marital aid
Even so, looks worth getting one