Recent content by Handy1971

No cavity, single timber frame.

Building notice and permitted development. I'm pricing it up, perhaps I'll have a word with BC. Cheers

When is the introduction of a cement board required exteranlly on a timber framed extension? It is single skin, in its own grounds and no boundaries to consider. The rain screen is either render board or plastic cladding, no descision on that as yet, although if plastic cladding it will add an...

Thanks for all the replies.

No its a two storey extension on to an existing two storey detached house. Means of escape windows are not feasible in the new room. The three other bedroom windows do not have escape windows, but they are existing and not being changed.

Not sure if that's for me Woody, If means of escape isn't possible through windows then protected stair. Would the ceilings outside the protected stair area, the ground floor ceilings underneath the bedrooms and the bedroom ceilings need to be upgraded if they were lathe and plaster. Smoke...

Seems a bit blunt that the document states this only applies to floors over 4.5m, the protected staircase can be upgraded to provide 30mins but the ceilings to the bedrooms and lounge floor are Lathe and plaster. Thanks for the replies.

Apologies for hi-jacking this thread but its on the same lines, a protected stairway in a two storey house, ground and a first floor only. No means of escape via windows, does the ground floor and 1st floor ceilings need to offer 30 minutes or is it just the tube of the protected stairway...

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Thanks John, 0.85kN/m2 for most domestic roofs,flat and pitched? When working out the masonry load above the lintel,is it the span plus the height of the masonry,straight line vertically, to how ever high? (this example 2 courses above the lintel) Lean to roof extension Concrete lintel at...

I was hoping you would reply Tony, thanks for that. I'll sit down over the weekend and have another go.

If I know the ratio and safe working load of a lintel from the manufacturer how can I work out the proposed lintel is up to the job. E.G. A window span of 1.8m with 2 courses of blocks over the top and a pitched 20 degree roof. 700mm returns each side. So a 2.1 lintel having a SWL of 23kn Dead...

For some reason, for the purposes of depth for loading thought it was the other way. Thanks alot.

Hello,first time poster long time lurker. Building a mono pitch/lean to garage,looking to cost the timbers. Is the span measured horizontally from the external of the wall plate to the wall? Then use Trada span table and the correct pitch. or is it measured along the pitch of the rafter. Thanks...