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    Wind post - is there another method?

    Thanks for all replies. Indeed fixing of the WindPost is key to it actually bracing that section of wall. There were some interesting designs the SE offered: - 100 X 100 X 10 RSA; This is a big RSA for a wall 100mm thick.. Bed one side in wall (ie. Cut all the way through the wall!) then...
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    Old suspended Fl; insulation, breather membrane, plywood between joists

    Sorry, this is a nested question.. Old suspended 1960s floor comprises: 3" void, 3" timber heights (sat on engineering bricks, levelled with cement), floorboards. Joist spacing sees 440mm approx inbetween joists. Joists are 2.5" wide. Goals: - insulate between timbers - UFH: install over tray...
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    Wind post - is there another method?

    -- Thanks for this. Sorry for lack of clarity: single brick = single width of brick = 4.5" Ground floor wall (and all others) is a 50mm cavity wall. 1st floor wall to front, clad in thick tiles on 1" batten, is single brick, not 9" solid wall.. If they were to use those materials, they'd have...
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    Wind post - is there another method?

    Sorry, intended sticking with mm. Small room is 2.1m wide, large room is 3.4m wide... ..the width of the single brick wall, once the internal wall is removed, will be 5.6m Room is approx 2.3m ceiling height. ----- Longer term insulation plan: 1. Strip cladding and battens, attach vertical...
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    Wind post - is there another method?

    1960 semi-detached brick cavity, 9" party wall. The odd-one out is the front 1st floor wall, which is brick, single-skin, with ~1" battens and concrete cladding tiles. I suspect it originally had metal crittal windows.. the tell-tale signs of superficial cracking to plaster suggest later UPVC...
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    Wind post - is there another method?

    Removing the non-supporting wall (red lines) which meets front, single-brick, tile-clad wall, between the 2 front windows.. SE initially agrees removal of wall up to front wall.. Then, in report, requires a 50cm stub to remain.. ..after querying this, he suggests a windpost design might...
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    concrete subfloor 2" 'void' vents and mould treatment

    It turns out to be not so bad... discoloured chipboard did have mould on the underside. Some of the battens supporting it did too - predictably near the damp wall - failure to maintain flat-roof, gutter, etc. So the only question is what products are recommended for treating concrete and wood...
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    concrete subfloor 2" 'void' vents and mould treatment

    Rented house, ~1967 built. Gas CH. Foam cavity insulation ~1980s. I had flat roof extension (35 years old) leak repaired - Ivy removed, facia and new gutter fitted, with flashing to close gap between facia and ajoining corrugated garage roof. Leak fixed. Now to the internal damp problem...
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    steel and glulam lintels during alterations

    The history is that a brickie lived here years ago and some things he did were not ideal, but now we want to alter several openings. This is a 1950s 3 bed semi, 50mm cavity brick walls, 330mm thickness of external walls + cavity + plaster. 1. We might want to replace a pair of concrete...
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    Finlock Gutters reline or remove?

    Finlock gutters have a multitude of inherent maintenance, cold bridging, damp penetration and structural issues, long term, for which the main solution is cutting off. There are a multitude of gutter lining techniques, of these the continuous liners can solve most of the vertical water...
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    Well, we are still midst renovations - ill health has lost us some time - but I am sure that the...

    Well, we are still midst renovations - ill health has lost us some time - but I am sure that the house would have been very much colder; picture snow, then ice sat in the finlock gutter, and that cold bridging in to the top of all bedrooms through the width of solid concrete... when the sun...
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    Finlock Gutters reline or remove?

    Hi Sussie, and Landmark Sorry to hear you are experiencing the problems that often arise with Finlock gutters. I already wrote it 'as it is' - finlock gutters were a crude post-war solution to providing 'guttering' when steel was in short supply. They tend to leak - down on to the building...
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    Finlock Gutters reline or remove?

    Relining finlock gutters is money down the drain. They comprise concrete blocks closing the top of house cavity walls with 10"-12" of solid wall + overhanging 'gutter' profile. Finlock gutter maintenance presents opportunities due to inherent problems in the design - they were only used post...
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