Recent content by Mastercraftsman

fantastic thanks Tony , everything you say makes perfect sense, hopefully the BCO will be on board !

haha indeed! thanks I will point this out to my Mrs this evening who is championing the exposed look !

Thanks Tony, that all makes perfect sense! Is it something that would need a calculation or is it something that a BCO may just agree and sign off on ? Would you also be able to offer some advice Re: the post at the other end which is bolted to the 100x100 post at my chimney end please ? My...

Hey guys, please excuse the silly username, made in jest! Im currently undertaking a loft conversion at my home, its a 1930s mid terrace, im putting a large rear dormer in. Most of the steels are in now, two 5.6m 203x203x52 UCs span from party wall to party wall. I have the floor minus the...

Hey guys, please excuse the silly username, made in jest! Im currently undertaking a loft conversion at my home, its a 1930s mid terrace, im putting a large rear dormer in. Most of the steels are in now, two 5.6m 203x203x52 UCs span from party wall to party wall. I have the floor minus the...

Hi guys I'm doing a DIY loft conversion , full plans, all passed and have installed some steels to hang the new floor joists from and take some of the weight from the removal of the old purlins via a newly built supporting purlin wall. The existing rafters are 4x2, the purlin wall I'm about...

Thanks alot guys, very kind of you both to help me

Thanks alot woody, umm I don't know why really! I'm running the new joists in between the old ones with a small gap and figured that a padstone would be easier in some places as I wouldn't have to raise it up unlike a thinner spreader plate . And in the party wall I figured a plate would be...

Hi guys I'm doing my own loft conversion, I have full plans passed and the steels arrived yesterday, I have 1 going into a spreader plate in a party wall and resting on a padstone the other end, another 1 on a spreader plate in the party wall which is bolted together to the 3rd beam , this join...

fantastic guys! thank you very much for your replies im very grateful, and i have definately taken the advice of the last option to rewire the upstairs lighting cheaply, a very sound idea! b13kal i think option 2 is great !

hi james, wow that was a fast reply! thanks ! unfortunately the current consumer unit is an old fuse box with the fuse wire and ceramic plugs, its full and it looks pretty old and terrible and could no doubt do with replacing, but i was under the impression that the old circuits had to be...

hi there, i was wondering if its possible to only have a new CU installed for the new circuits supplying a loft conversion, and leave the remaining circuits as they are on the exisiting fuse board supplying the rest of the house? many thanks my lords

hi again, just an update structural engineer is coming over to do some maths and i will take it from there ! thanks again for your help tony, you were right about the shear load, looking like a few steels are going to be needed !

just got back and here are a few pics of the pole plate hopefully showing a little better what i was trying to explain !