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Woody the trimmer joist you said about putting across the side door. I had not heard of that before but I've done some reading on it now. So correct me if I'm wrong, this trimmer joist lays across the top of door opening where a lintel would normally go and is then fixed to the next adjacent...

Thanks Woody, will brick in between. Your advice has been really helpful.

Thanks woody I really appreciate your reply. I agree that a 450 spacing is better and that's what I want now. I'm thinking of doing the beams myself now so I get it done how I want. I will be fitting noggins halfway across joists. At the joist ends the ones that are not strapped to the wall...

Update, I am thinking of changing the slope of the roof from lengthways as it is now to slope across the width instead which will give me more headroom in garage. So the way I think it needs to be done is to remove the two rows of bricks under the copings at the front and at the side the bricks...

Stivino you are correct, I forgot I posted that. It's been sat in the shed since today when I thought I would try it out.

I was probably wrong there, I will try it again later to verify.

I think this is the v1 of the yankee jack, I will have a search online for a service kit for it. It doesn't drop suddenly after the initial tight bit,I would say a quarter turn after this and then drops suddenly.

Initially the release valve is a little tight right at the start but then it turns quite freely.

It belonged to a really nice guy who passed away.

Yes it was proper jack oil.

I bought a used sealey yankee 2 tonne trolley jack. When I got the jack it was low on hydrolic fluid, so I filled that up and bled the jack. The jack lifts ok but when lowering, it drops the vehicle way too quickly. And I'm careful when lowering not to release it too fast. Does anyone have...

I have narrowed it down to two quotes, one is using ply the other osb boards. What is the better option out of these two materials and why.

Thanks for the info both of you

Hi All, Our separate garage which was probably built in the 70s has corrugated asbestos sheets on it. We are intending to get the roof replaced soon and have had a few roofers round to quote. The roof as it stands is not watertight and needs replacing. Some of the roofers have said they will...

We reset boiler and topped the pressure up to 1.5 bar and the code didn't appear Ran the hot water which took a while to get hot, upon turning off the tap the pump started to make a loud clicking noise and took ages to turn off.