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    RSJ/Two Piece Inverted T

    I'm after some advice, may be overkill but here goes........ Interior load bearing solid wall is being rebuilt and I am moving a door way across 2 ft which will result in the above wall on the first floor to have no support for 500mm. I'm thinking of putting an I beam/Inverted T or similar...
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    Joists

    I am taking out chipboard flooring upstairs in my house and replacing it with oak flooring. I have discovered that in my toilet the flooring has been laid on suspended beams over a concrete base (Not sure how they have laid it?) I want to take out the concrete and redo the ceiling below...
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    Downpipe

    I have a problem........... I have a width of guttering approx 3mtrs on the back of my house which is over my neighbours land, this then goes into the ground (soakaway) my neighbours soil is 3ft up the side of my house and I have a damp problem. Is there a solution where I can run the...
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    Steel Lintel

    I am repointing the external walls of an 1800's cottage and noticed that the bricks have dropped above all the windows, the walls are 9" solid brickwork with no cavity. Upon further investigation I have discovered there are no external lintels above the windows themselves (Outer skin of...
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    Concrete Floor

    My cottage was built in the 1800's and has what appears to be damp coming up from the concrete floor into the surrounding walls, the top has what looks like asphalt on it, I want to completely dig out my concrete floor and replace properly. What layers, depth, insulation etc would I need to...
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    Well

    Help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :cry: I Have just had some brick replacement work done as per previous threads in this forum and whilst carrying out the last corner the builder could not find any footing, His advice was to dig a metre down,lay footing and then complete the job, got him...
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    Accenta 8 Reset & Bell Box

    Am doing up an old cottage and the alarm has not worked, I have managed to reset the NVM using the threads in this forum - Thanks :D Now that I have done that will the whole system have to be re-programmed or will it still be setup as per installation? The external bell sounds like a...
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    Plaster / Internal Damp

    I am restoring a victrian cottage and have stripped the walls bare of plaster and am back to bricks, the brickwork is still pretty damp (9" walls). The external bricks are being replaced but I dont really want to mess around internally as well with bricks. Do I wait for the bricks to dry out...
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    Joists

    I am taking out the ceiling & 1st floor in an 1820's cottage and want to know what size joists I need to use and also the frequency that they would need to be placed to replace the old creaking beams! The span is 4.6mtrs wide. Many thanks in advance... :D
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    Bricklaying/Repointing Mix

    I am digging out and replacing some blown bricks as in a previous post, and I am also putting in 3 rows of blues to help out with a damp problem at the bottom and also repointing the bits that are shot in the other part of the road facing wall. My question is : What is the right ratio/mix I...
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    Bricks blown/falling apart on external wall

    Property: 1850's Cottage Wall: 9" Solid Problem: Internal Damp & Blown bricks I have approx 30-50 bricks (maybe more once render is removed)that will need to be replaced as they are completely shot, the property does not have any engineering bricks in place and the house appears to have had...
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