Recent content by Dereekoo

Stability wise it has a FoS against overturning of 4 so no problem there and as long as any stored stuff is not all placed on the overhang and none on the other then again ok. Deflection of the 6x2s could be a problem depending what spacing you have them, obviously the more you have the less...

So its sensible to get a tradesman in to do any work as opposed to doing it yourself because their costs can be justified?? Long live DIY

Got to wait for some sun so may be a while!!!

I used some old alloy sheet that was used behind a gas fire/chimney opening. Made diameter 80mm bigger than pot, cut 40mm pleats around the edges, bent down to make a skirt, dropped on pot then tapped skirt around bulbous top of pot to secure against wind. That was during lockdown and its still...

Or go for a 45 degree mitre joint

Just out of interest what is "concrete sand", ballast has a proportion of fines in it which I understand to be sand. Cheers

You can always post 2 pics of the spreadsheet one showing its layout and the other one with the formula shown in the cells, means perps have to build the spreadsheet as opposed to just picking it up and running wit it?.

Hats off to any of you chaps who have done a bit of selfbuild and especially king Andy who's a king

I assume the window is coming out at the same time.?

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Vaulted roof to bedrooms, inner wall pier yet to come up to support end of beam??

How do you know what it was designed for, whats the span, size, grade and spacing of the rafters

Havenai said recent post has been deleted so my comment does not now make any sense

That purlin would be way undersized using todays regs, even with just taking the standard snow load of 0.75kn/m2 and assuming the purlin supports 1m of roof each side of it i.e. 2m2 , so loading per metre run is 1.5kn, taking c24 timber the actual bending moment in the beam would be 40% over...

And don't wait 7years and 8 months to do so