Recent content by kye90

Thanks, its good to have your suspicions confirmed about something. In which case, all the 3 binders are ornaments, 'cos none of them are attached to the brick-work in any way.....................................its a joke. Ive got pretty straight in my head now what I need to do, but just...

I don't really get the use of the binders up there, I thought they were meant to be embedded in the walls somehow, but I just checked and they aren't secured to anything other than being toenailed into the joists. How this is meant to provide any extra support I don't know, surely its just...

this is what i plan to do, to support things in order to allow me to take out those trusses: what u think?

So basically ive got a few questions :) From what I can see, and what ive read so far today, I seem to have two big chunky purlins (?) supporting my rafters. I also seem to have 2 trusses (?) (one pictured here). So my first question is do I need both...? My aim is to be able to take...