Recent content by Cole Pearson

Not a helpful post, but i'll answer anyway - no.

Do I need a lintel on the external skin of a cavity wall, over a new french door? The internal skin has a lintel for the opening and it’s the internal skin that carries the weight. The external skin has only 3 courses of brick above it as it’s a bungalow. Will a PVC frame hold 3 course or is...

Do I need a lintel on the external skin of a cavity wall, over a new french door? The internal skin has a lintel for the opening and it’s the internal skin that carries the weight. The external skin has only 3 courses of brick above it as it’s a bungalow. Will a PVC frame hold 3 course or is...

Great, thank you!

Hi, I’ve read through article K in some detail and also trawled through LABC articles and comments and I can’t find a straight and direct answer. So I’m hoping there may be someone here in a particular role, able to help. I have an 800 wide stair case rising to a loft conversion. At the top of...

Thats my bad drawing @tony1851 - there will be two sole plates as my latest image from my post at 3:40pm yesterday. One will be only spanning a few joists to support the remaining sections of the purlin - leaving the gap in the middle. The second will be spanning the full width and all floor...

I'm hoping @tony1851 can chime in :) My thoughts were that if the gap in the sole platewas only where there was no purlin to support, that would be fine as the remaining bits of the purlin is still supported directly below with the wall and plate. I cant see how a 2 foot length of purlin would...

Yea I'm not sure I would even be able to get it in there, but I did also assume that the steel would need to be directly underneath the purlin. Heres another terrible drawing. This is basically what I imagined. a sole plate spanning the floor joists underneath whats left of the purlin after the...

Hi cdbe, its a bungalow so the steel over the dining / kitchen knock-through is only supporting the loft conversion (which on that side of the property will be a little used guest bedroom) and the steel was calc'd as such. Ive no objection to steel in general as ive already put one in where...

Thanks Tony. All the timber is C24 47x145. So at 250ctrs we’d be happy? What if I also doubled up? The purlin is 700 along the span from the external wall, leaving 2950 before the slam reaches the steel over the kitchen / dining room knock-through. So I’d be running the sole plates at that...

Hi all, This is my first post on here after reading A LOT of useful threads. I have designs for a loft conversion where the joists (47x145) have been drawn to span just shy of 3m at 40ctrs. That span is from a steel beam in the middle of the house (dining room x kitchen knock-through) out to...

Hi all, This is my first post on here after reading A LOT of useful threads. I have designs for a loft conversion where the joists (47x145) have been drawn to span just shy of 3m at 40ctrs. That span is from a steel beam in the middle of the house (dining room x kitchen knock-through) out to...