Recent content by JackRusselll

I don't deny anything that you've said, but at this point for an easy life we've just ordered the slightly larger padstone. Builder will be cutting out the existing teeny-tiny-40mm-short padstone, knocking a few more bricks out and replacing today. This is just one element of a 'simple' build...

On the notes it says 43.2kN total load

Just to update, having consulted the engineer, this was deemed not suitable. It needs to span span both beams apparently . This was also deemed unsuitable as a solution. This padstone is acceptable, meaning 10mm is lost in one of the dimensions. Bit frustrating as it's only 40mm more than the...

I hope he doesn't insist on the decorative flange! That might be my breaking point...

The cavity is about 90mm. The beams will sit on the padstone like this: That sounds like a sensible option, I would need to check it with the structural engineer.

Our builder is removing the external wall between our kitchen and garage. Two bolted steels are going across the opening (spanning around 2.2m). This is the corner of the house, so there is a steel post specified on the outside corner wall and on the other side it requires a padstone. The...

Just so I understand, that would mean there would be no window cill on the inside and on the outside there would be a sort of brick shelf. Is that correct?

Thank you, appreciate the reply. Can I ask, you say the window should be much further back, why is that? If it were any further back it wouldn't be resting on the brick, or have I misunderstood?

Long story short, having a nightmare with approval from the building control inspector and it's really holding up the build. We're quite far into a garage conversion project, thought we were at the stage where we could plaster, but booked in a visit with the building control inspector. He...

I guess I'm a bit unsure as to why I would need to put one upstairs too as this work has no impact on anything above ground level - means of escape don't change (if anything they improve).

Hello, I'm in the process of having my garage converted. We're knocking through the kitchen to make the existing kitchen larger, adding a front bedroom/study and a shower room. (Please see attached before/after plans to show the rough outline). I currently have no mains alarms in the house...

Appreciate the feedback. It was installed yesterday. I was expecting 7 years warranty as that's what I was told. He didn't install the Valliant filter, he installed a Fernox TF1 Omega Filter. Valliant have said the same, I get 2 years now, and 5 additional when the installer registers. I'm not...

Thanks for the info. Would be be possible for me to ask the installer to sign up to Vaillant Advance? From what I can see it doesn't look like there is a cost involved. Or do you think that wouldn't be possible? Is there training or something else required?

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Hello, appreciate this might not be the right forum, but looking for some advice... I just had a Vaillant ecoFIT pure 830 combi installed. It's all up and running after a bit of a faff (resolved with the help of this forum). That part is now fine. However, when I agreed to the install, the...