Recent content by HammieUK

Never knew this would be such a controversial subject! I ended up using the same Titan breaker that Mike suggested, I discovered my workmate had one so it didn't cost me a penny. I found a nack to it, if I hammered around the rebar I could get the concrete to split away from it in big chunks...

Hi All, I'm in the process of demolishing an old prefab garage, everything was going well until I got down to the strip foundations, it seems the previous owner went a little overkill with the reinforcement and put 30mm thick rebar in it, which is causing me serious grief. The strip is about...

The studwork for the roof is mostly supported by the purlins, I braced the lower purlin off the floor steels to help take any additional load (don't have any pics of that unfortunately). The purlins in this house were original (~90 years old) and had developed a ~2" sag at the centre, I started...

I used 2 layers of 70mm thick insulation in the ceiling, 1 layer of 70mm in the walls, all the seams were taped with foil tape too. The first layer i screwed on underneath the rafters (not in between), and constructed stud work below that... Then I fitted the second layer between that...

No padstones were required in my case, the brickwork had sufficient compressive strength to situate the steel directly on them (with a bit of shimming), you'd need calculations to verify though. My steels were universal columns so roughly 150 x 150. The steels had no affect on the roof at...

Somewhere between £1000 and £1500, not sure the exact amount the builder paid (i paid the builder £3190 to purchase and install the steel). That was for 5 lengths of universal column (approx 6m long each, 150mm x 30kg/m I think), one of them had a couple of clevis' welded on the ends.

Unfortunately my builder sourced the steel, I think they came from a local steelworks fabricator, I'm sure there's builders on here that could recommend you some suppliers?

I just cut the tiles as tight to the walls as I could (not particularly easy around the curved shower tray), filled the gap with grout (to stop the silicone sinking into the gap before it set) and put a tidy bead of silicone along it. I practiced the tiling, grouting and silicone-ing on a spare...

They're B&Q slate effect tiles... http://www.diy.com/nav/decor/tiles/wall-floor-tiles/porcelain_tiles/Colours-Black-Slate-Effect-Wall-and-Floor-Tile-300-x-600mm-12257575?skuId=12788281 They're porcelain so needed cleaning and sealing first, and also were a bugger to cut! My diamond tipped...

Well the bathroom has been finished for 3 months now, I guess it's about time to update this log! Unfortunately I became rather forgetful taking pictures, but here's the ones I took. With the bath in place, I removed the remainder of the bathroom, discovered a large section of wall crumbling...

Well I'm finally there, the room is now carpeted and inhabited! Building control made their final visit a couple of weeks ago and gave it the thumbs up, the inspector was very happy with the build and found no faults. Here's a few pics.... Since cost info on loft...

Yep, everything is IP rated for the relevant zones, electrician should be hooking it all up in a couple of weeks

I'm in the process of refitting my bathroom and I need to put in the back box in for the towel radiator heating element, how high does this need to be above the floor? I'm having the electrician put in a programmable timer (Suitably IP rated of course), which I guess means it may need to be...

Evening all! Now that I've just about finished my loft conversion, I thought I better move onto the next item of business, the bathroom. This room was looking pretty dated when I moved in 2 years ago and I'd had to rip up the floor to replace the lead pipe, so it was looking pretty grim. This...

Long time no update! Work has been keeping me busy so progress in the loft has been slow, here's some pics of the latest developments. Sorry about the quality, these were taken on my phone since my camera has gone walkabout (probably gone and built it into one of the walls!)... Dwarf wall...