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To be on the safe side I've got a structural engineer coming over this afternoon to have a look. Thanks all!

Sorry I haven't been too clear. So basically I have two houses knocked into one. The room shown is the entire ground floor of one original house. The wooden beam you can see was the old entrance (with old front door boarded up beyond) and the wall I'm hoping to remove used to support the stairs...

After some research I'm planning on extending the joists. Fresh joists same size as existing (either hangers or dug in) on exterior wall, 5 foot overlap with existing joists, 8 M12 bolts per joists with square washers and timber dog connectors. Sound OK?

Not that I would want to cut corners but isn't a lintel overkill? We're talking three joists not an entire room. Out of interest why would you not extend the existing joists? Thanks

Rough drawing if that helps I'm planning to extend the three main joist s supported by the old stair wall. Thanks

Pic of wall Rubbish pic of joists

Hi folks I'm in the middle of renovating my house and have a quick joist question if anyone has any advice? So basically the house is two cottages knocked into one. The old stairs have been removed however the wall that supported the stairs remains. There are no interior walls on the floor...

I hold my hands up I made a school boy error changing my double light switch over, somewhere I've cocked up the wiring so the lights only work if the other double switch in the room is at certain positions and vice versa! Being a chap I'm quite happy to have the lights working full stop...

There isn't any lining in the guttering at all. Lead would be best I guess but tar and felt is cheaper, I hope I'll get a good few years out of it before it needs re-doing.

Hi all I'm 'lucky' enough to live in a grade 2 listed house with wooden guttering. The gutters have split in places and have started to leak so need repairing and I wanted to run my plan by you guys before buying the gear, etc... So the plan is to keep things simple, one coat of bitumen paint...

I've got a leaking outdoor tap that I want to sort out. I'm told the supply is the old outside loo and there isn't an outdoor stop valve for the house at all (got the utils co. out to check). I've tightened the tap up as much as possible but I think the olive must be damaged inside (it's...