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I am wondering if anyone has any good ideas about how I could replace the plasterboard and fill or plaster around the pipes in a near way that doesn't look awful. Please see the attached photos. I can neatly cut pieces to fit the holes and use a cut pieces of wood in the ceiling void to screw...

Sadly I don't have the head height for this

Just wondered if anyone had any further advice or has experienced anything similar to this situation.

I would definitely lay a sub floor, as an architect, any project I have worked on in an existing building, where we are laying a new timber floor we have always laid a new level subfloor to be confident the new floor won't move.

Really detailed help. Thanks The span of these 225 by 50mm joists is 2500mm, so fairly short. The joists should be more than strong enough. Just to clarify, I imagined, installing the noggins first and then cutting the 2by4 to fit after. My reason for the 2by4s was to support the sub floor...

Thanks for your reply, the joists are 225 by 50mm at 400mm centres at one end the rest are notched into an I-beam at the other they are built into the inner leaf of a brick cavity wall. I think I a leaning towards the following approac, installing full dept noggins, where required and inbetween...

Hi, I live in a ground floor flat in a Victorian terrace house in London, UK. The ground and 1st floor were extended 15 years ago. This part of our flat has a ceiling that is incredibly noisy, it creaks and bounces whenever someone walks around above. Over the last 2-3 years it has become...