Recent content by brennan2470

That was my fear. I think a new board was about £150. I do have a 10 year parts guarantee on the machine but I have to pay the labour through Hotpoint. If it was a cheap £20 part I would’ve paid for it and replaced it myself. If it’s the board then I’ll likely go via Hotpoint. Just trying to...

My Hotpoint SUTCDGREEN9A1 dryer isn’t reversing. The dryer turns clockwise just fine, but when it stops periodically to turn anticlockwise, it doesn’t turn, but I can hear the heater/pump, etc still working without the drum spinning. Can anybody please point me in the right direction? Have...

@tony1851 do you think I would need to dig down through the 100mm screed or just bolt my goalposts directly into it? Given the floor can manage point loads of 900N and each goalpost will be less than half that (based on an overall 2 tonne structure/storage, with loads beared either end as well...

The 7m x 6m floor space will consist of 3x6 joists weighing approx 250kg and 22mm T&G chipboard flooring weighing approx 600kg, plus my boxes of general household stuff, camping and leisure gear, etc, and me walking around. The load is shared between the two wall plates at each end as well as...

I have spoken to a builder who has advised against placing the beam within the two single skinned walls for the following reasons: 1. One wall is adjacent to my garden and the RSJ will be visible from the other side of the wall and will require treatment to prevent it from rusting due to these...

Thanks. I’ll relay this to the s/e when I find one. The load is going to be circa 2 tonne however the RSJ will only act as a mid span for the joists, so the existing wallplates will be doing a lot of the work too.

That is reassuring to know. I hadn’t realised that. Presumably if my garage has multiple piers around the perimeter then the footings must be wide enough for a second skin of bricks to sit underneath the RSJ and increasing the seating from 100 to 200mm if I wished? Or do you think they would...

Single skin wall both sides. Does have piers either side but they don’t align so I can’t notch into them. I’m lead to believe that with appropriate sized padstones I could still have an RSJ supported by two single skin walls, or am I grossly mistaken?

I’m lead to believe that b&b floors have a higher specification in new build garages than in homes. 2.5kn/m2 and 9kn point loads. Bear in mind the RSJ will probably weigh 160kg, then the weight of the brick piers, then nearly a tonne of timber and chipboard T&g flooring. That’s before I’ve even...

Balls… Any alternatives (not engineered joists)?

Yeah there are piers but they are staggered along each of the walls so don’t line up at all. I believe most new build garages are b&b floor

I would hope it’s load bearing considering I could fit 4 ford fiestas in it if I tried hard enough! I’m assuming a foundation for a pier when you have a b&b floor will be an absolute headache?

Appreciate this was 7 years ago but what did you end up doing?

I have a detached double garage with a block and beam floor and intend on installing an RSJ to act as a mid span for new joists I’m going to fit alongside the existing trusses to create a storage floor I am about to instruct a structural engineer to spec everything up but before doing so (and...

Currently, having any form of upright is out of the question because of the reasons previously outlined. Stud wall would be even worse (n)