Recent content by carson321

That's great, thanks for your useful input. So it should be acceptable to just replace with full length joists on to hangers embedded??/bolted?? to the walls? That's fine, and my architect will be fine with doing that, but as I am at the very beginning of figuring out exactly what I want to...

And on topic, any suggestions on how to deal with the floating joists?!

Because I am currently at the opening stages of discussing plans with an architect on a fortnightly basis, and I would like to know my options re having the stairs removed and what solutions there are to supporting the joists if that wall is removed. Currently all plans have been to keep the...

There will be no issue surrounding this, the new staircase will be sited in a newly built extension following all appropriate regs, any advice on my issue would be greatly received.

Hi guys, I am looking at removing the staircase (moving location) from my house and fill in the hole in the first floor. The stairs are bounded by a party wall and an internal wall. Obviously I need a structural engineer to do things properly, but in scoping the task I would like to know what...

Hi, I have recently moved house and the boiler in my new home is giving me some grief. It is a Main Combi Eco boiler and I keep getting the error code E168 when the central heating tries to fire up. I do not know what any of the previous error codes were. It has probably had it's power...