Recent content by sambarns

Hi Tales of my death have been greatly exaggerated :D Been busy building a roof! Actually I managed to find a chippy on one of the neighbouring islands and he came over for a couple of days. It was actually a piece of p**s but I guess everything is if you know before hand. We did...

Drawings e mails as requested. Sure if I was Monty Hall and turned up with a BBC crew there wouldn't be an issue nailing this one Thanks again :lol:

Freddy's quite right, pressed new topic rather than reply. Doh! Please ignore this thread

Have converted pdfs to JPegs no problem. They are under the 6000kb allowance for up loading to here so I have no idea why they won't upload. Open fine on the PC. If any one wants them i could e mail pdfs and JPegs Cheers all Painful it is :?

No idea what was up there. Used snapfish and its sorted thanks

Try this lads http://www3.snapfish.co.uk/snapfishuk/thumbnailshare/AlbumID=5630586011/

Converted them to JPegs and they seem fine but I can't open them from the images folder, anyone else had any luck? Cheers

Converted them to JPegs and they seemed fine but I couldn't open them in the images folder. Anyone else have any luck? Cheers

HI Lads Couldn't up load the pdf but I'll take some pics of progress to date. The drawings show a cut roof with the ceiling joists running 275mm up the rafters as the croft/extension eaves are at 2m. The wall plates are 5.1m apart and the extension comes out 3.8m from the existing croft...

Noseall and theoldun, thanks so much for your responses. And for the offer of taking time out to talk me through it. I'm just about at wall plate height with the block work. I'm back in this afternoon and if its OK with you I'm going to try and upload a pdf of the drawing and answer your...

Hi We live in a very remote area and have been let down badly by the roofing contractors we had lined up. The short version is that I am now going to have to put the pitched roof on our new extension and run it into the existing (creating valleys and the like) myself. The walls have been up for...