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I think to answer my own question about restraint straps - the answer is 'yes'. This post looks really helpful: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/timber-frame-restraint-straps.506334/ (great screen grab at the bottom of a lateral restraint strap datasheet)

Thanks everyone for the helpful replies. I'm really not keen on a ledge, thanks tho Noseall. New plan below.. any feedback of this is good / bad / ugly..? Adding a new wall plate to the external leaf, with a DPC. Build off this a second, outer, gable end stud in 2x4s that just takes the...

Thanks for the idea! I'm keen to avoid the gable end looking like this, but can understand why they did it. (Pic from Screech20 post 9Sept2013)

Yes, the SE has drawn up the supporting structure. It's doubled / tripled up 125mm studs forming part of this gable wall. He wasn't kind enough to design up to the tiles tho.

Something like this?

Planning a hip-to-gable and need some advice please. The gable will be timber framed and have vertical hung tiles. SE says it must be supported off the inner leaf - it's taking load from a ridge beam. I'm using 120mm timber for the studwork. This leaves some 150mm gap from the finished gable...

Any help greatly appreciated on this. New build in the planning. It has an EPDM flat roof dormer that meets a pitched roof with a few rows of plain tiles above and to the sides of the dormer. I can’t find any decent pics of the EPDM corner details where the flat roof meets the pitched roof...

Planning a dormer loft conversion. Architect’s completed designs, planning okay and SE done their thing. Now I need to get a steel fabricator onboard. Never used these before and don’t know what to expect. Some of the steels need to be a little intricate - cranked, under-slung connections etc...

@robbroom - how did this work for you? I have exactly the same query in my loft conversion and struggling to get confirmation a Fully under slung floor joist is okay on hangers. thanks.

Thanks Woody, A post ages ago suggested siliconing the membrane to the structure at the return. Is that the done thing?

Hi everyone. Putting up a timber framed dormer. Wrapping with a breather membrane. Should the membrane be cut & pulled though the window opening, installing the window ‘over the top’ of the membrane? Or should the membrane be trimmed around the exterior of the window opening? Many thanks!