Recent content by pejoli

Appreciate your replies, and thanks for validating my thinking this should be a minor build risk. But My question was slightly different (more as to what noseall replied) - if in the eventuality there was a problem, what extra protection does option 2/an award really give me? Am I not already...

Hello, Our neighbours have got planning for a one story extension at the back of their house. We’re not attached (and have our own similar extension), their property is 2.4m away from ours, but obviously this falls within the party wall agreement regs for foundations work deeper and within 3...

Thanks, I went with the 6x2 as advised - we’ve moved it to 2m from the boundary,s o height no longer an issue. Next questions then - we’re reusing an existing 2m slab over part of it, so don’t have to create footings in that area. There is a fall on it, so not usable as is, so the corner of the...

Thanks for your replies. But for this sort of building, the floor is essentially a separate consideration from the perimeter foundation beams (in terms of load bearing - the weight of the structure is taking on the outside beams in their entirety, the other floor joists will just follow the...

Afternoon, I've purchased a Tuin Laura log cabin (4.3m^2) https://www.tuin.co.uk/laula-log-cabin-DG.html, and will be going with a wood frame foundation to avoid the need for a slab - the ground is fairly uneven. To keep the height down, I'd like to use 75x100mm joists, but trying to figure...

Thanks - the bin it is.

I’ve got a (cheapish) electric convector heater - the neutral wire has burned off the spade connector (it’s been at my elderly mums, and she’s had it on almost all of the time I suspect, as she likes it roasting warm). I assume the multi-strand neutral has loosened, or strands fatigued from the...

Thanks - here’s a picture, you can see the horizontal crack about half way down.

Thanks. I managed to take off all the kingspan (question for another thread) and see where the water saturation on the board below started - one of the roofers tapped from the inside when his mate was up there, and it matched up to where the crack in the lead was. So fingers crossed it’s just...

Ok - last guy has also proposed liquid polymer paint (or full replacement).

Woke up two days ago to find water dripping down the wall of the spare room. After a bit of investigation (boiler above was originally prime suspect), we found the wood beam supporting the dormer valley to be soaked, and a roofer confirmed there a crack running across the lead flashing half way...

Thanks for the reply. But if I block up the top, won’t moist warm air rise up from the rooms below, and have nowhere to go, and make the brickwork damp?

Hi all, I have a very draughty de-commissioned chimney in my Victorian house - the front room/upstairs room is freezing in winter. I’ve tried chimney balloons and more ad-hoc methods (eg bin bags full of bubble wrap) to block it from below, but the shape of the flue means they never stay in...

Hi - I checked the flow rate this afternoon - the outside tap gives me 18 L a minute. The kitchen mixer tap is 10 L/min for cold, 9 L/min for hot, but the latter drops to 5.5 L/min after 30 secs or so. I see no drop in the cold. If the filter is blocked, why would I see a drop after 30 secs...

Any thoughts, anyone? Or is this something that can't be diagnosed on t'internet ?