Recent content by KenExtends

Tony This is most useful and your earlier prompting has helped clarify the situation I found myself in. It would be useful to see the numbers behind your calcs as I like to learn about what is going on, and in the (unlikely?! - well this is the most stressful time) event of us ever having...

Here is an extract from the plans: The cross section mentions the joists as being 150mmx40mm, but the remainder of the joists are 225mm x 47mm In looking at the problem more closely (in answering your question), I was told by the builder that the roof had to be flat as it was...

The person who drew up the plans put a crude lean-to sloping roof on the original plans, hence the strange terminology in the above text. The first version of the steels did not include these structural elements!

Canopy Steel Calcs and Drawing

My structural steel woes continue: I have a 'small' area 4.3m x 2.8m including supporting wall (depth to 100m) that is single storey where I want to put a glass canopy as part of the otherwise flat roof. The glass canopy is 2.5m x 1.5m approx. My plans show two 'huge' 152 steel beams...

Ronny and others - thanks Sorry, I didn't make it clear that this is all new build! My builder commented that this would be needed on a knock through. Apparently, my SE has now updated me that if I use three x100 square tubes welded together, I will need haunches (hence your comments on...

I have been horrified at the growth in thickness in house walls over the las few years. To me, every inch saved is two inches in internal room width - especially for my key room at the rear of the house with two external walls. I used Celotex online professional calculator and achieved a...

Hi everybody My part-one, part-two storey extension has commenced, and I have hit my first stumbling block. I managed to get walls of 260 mm thickness, however, I cannot get my structural engineer to design columns that will fit in this thickness (100 mm internal blocks, 25mm insulation...