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Dhillon - thanks for the tip. In answer to your question, the house is Victorian , almost 120 years old. I don't think there _were_ building regs back then :)

That's right, the plate is 100x50 but it's the 50mm side which is flush to the wall. Since the ridge plate is already fixed to the wall - you can see this from the picture above - it's not possible for me to remove this. In a nutshell, I don't have the space to drill a ~200mm through...

Hi. Yes - that's pretty much it. One thing not correct was the depth of timber - it's actually 2 by 4 that's being used. So the wood is 100mm deep and the SE recommended a 100mm hole into masonry. I'm just wondering about the best technique to get a 200mm drill bit into the space between...

Thanks for the response - a bit more detail on this. I've attached the SE diagram. Note where the timber plate meets the party wall at the top right of the diagram. The diagram is in fact incorrect, since it shows the longer edge of the plate (200mm) flush to the wall. In reality, it's the...

Working off some plans put together by my SE, I'm about to start resin fixing the timber wall plate to the party wall. The SE recommended that the bolt should be 100mm in the wall. The wall plate is 200mm deep, so this means that I'm looking at a bit more than 300mm (I'm going to add a bit...

Reinforcing celing

Thanks, Geraint

I'm doing some reinforcing of roof space at the rear of my building. My SE has put together some fairly detailed instructions in terms of bolting the timber plate under the roof ridge to the party wall (M12 resin bolts, fixed between each rafter) but he's omitted to say to what depth the...