Recent content by custardavenger

Hi Chaps. In the change of situations that this year has brought I've tried to dedicate myself to getting past the hard sections of my build. As time moves on I continue to find better ways to do things which has lead me to making no progress in case I might think of something better in the...

Cheers Woody.

Hi All Been a while since I last posted but have thrown myself into getting the next stage of my house done. I did have a builder come and fit (with my help) some beams up the attic for a strong floor but alas he never finished the job or completed the two knock throughs to the extension I had...

Thanks for the reply. This is not where the carpet meets wood flooring, there is a hardwood strip then more carpet. I could of course replace them but I much prefer a wood transition to a metal one. I know there are wood ones for the edge of wood flooring but I'v not seen there for between two...

So my house hasn't progressed much and I'm getting back into it, I've moved into the room that the lodger had which is the first room done. It (like the other rooms) has a hard wood threshold in the doorway. The carpet fitter put standard carpet gripper up to it which is not ideal to walk on in...

Cheers, Will look into that. (Cats do indeed rule!)

Yeah, well Builders eh. He's retired now and I need to find another one for other work on the house. Hope the next one is better but you can never tell until they do some work. So anyone, know of any products that could help?

Cheers John. No way I can take the frame out now. It would ruin the slab and I don't think it's needed. I understand what you are saying but am sure with the right product it can be fixed easily. I am not going to use a sealant. I'm looking for a product that is designed to be good in...

The metal frame has welded brackets that go into the floor slab. I can take other pictures but you can see that some bricks are slightly high which it rests on and others are 2-5mm lower than the metal.

The metal is not sitting on the brick work. It does sit on the odd high point but not well enough to take the weight of the pit jack and half a car.

Hi All. I had a builder build my extension and though he got most of it right he did leave me with a few of his mistakes to fix. One is the edging to the inspection pit in the garage. The image above shows the problem. When fitting the pit edge the builder didn't put down a bed of...

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I'm with you. That's fine, that is the bodge I'm planning to rectify. The issue is what with the builder planing to put the new RSJ on top of the old one. He's worried about the weight to support. As fa as I can see you need to support the same amount of wall no matter which way you do it.