Recent content by sputnik57

I wonder is yours different as you have the beams across the way that keeps the force downwards whereas I'm guessing my forces are inwards at an angle. Here are some more somewhat grainy photos of the whole loft From party wall end From non-party wall end As big an image of the right...

That's looks like what the previous occupier had done - added the plasterboarding and there are 2 velux windows too but I don't know when they did any of that, I'd not given it a second thought when we bought the house and only really started to think about it recently. The adjoining neighbour I...

Thanks for the reply. I've never noticed anything out of place, roof looks fine to my untrained eye, ceilings have no cracks that I can spot. The only thing of note is the supporting wall on the right doesn't look particularly straight and I can't remember if it always looked that way. I did...

We have been living in our house 16 odd years and of late have noticed that we have small walls in the loft that hold up wooden beams that act as some sort of roof support. I think they're called purlins from reading online. Our house is semi detached and there is a single purlin on the left...