Recent content by tony1851

If it is a shallow arch, it suggests that it was originally part of an opening in the rear wall, eg a door and adjoining narrow window? Can you not leave the arch as it is? - they are intended to be self-supporting. If you really feel you want to support it, a steel rectangular hollow section...

Those steels will probably last until the Four Horsemen come riding in...

Have a look at this: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1617/s11527-020-01536-2 It's Italian research done about 5 years ago (in English) into direct pull-out tests of resin-fixed bolts into brickwork of various types (resin-fixed are far better that plastic-plugged screws). I've used this...

Woody is correct. Timber under long-term load is subject to 'creep', whereby the timber keeps its deflected shape. If you try to jack it straight, it might lift the rafters at the end. As it's not showing externally. just reinforce it as it is by any convenient method, adding extra timber or...

If the joists are firmly supported off the bottom flange of the beam, or securely fixed to the web some way, the reason they have sheared is because the joists have shrunk. When they were installed, they will have had a relatively high moisture content, perhaps being stored uinder cover but...

The purlin prop won't affect your new lintel; any load will just go down vertically against the new door jamb.

Its survived the Luftwaffe in 1940, Dunkirk and D-Day. The atomic bomb over Japan didn't shift it, and it survived the Suez Crisis and the later Cuban Missile crisis, not to mention JFK's assasination. The £-in-your pocket devaluation of 1967 had no effect, nor did the Winter of Discontent. It...

Whether or not its a serious issue depends on a) the depth of the cut; b) the depth of the joist and c) the span of the joists. Can't really tell much of that from the pic. Usually a notch near the end of the span is not as critical as one nearer the centre of the span.

A good beam would be a 152 x 152 x 23, with 6mm plate welded underneath. If supporting 3 courses of dense block cavity wall (and no load from the roof), the deflection would be around 3mm. If there are 2 or 3 block courses above, put a couple of 30 x 5 steel straps built into the inner skin and...

Yes, I think even replacing non-permeable with alternative non-permeable would still need P.P. (which of couse you probably wouldn't get). :<(

A quick way to find the size of a new pier is to work out the horizontal wind load on a portion of the wall and assume the wind is trying to push it over. Then, assume that all the wind load is to be resisted by the pier alone, and then work out the weight of pier required to more than...

yup, we'll give it a try.

The size of the buttress (face width and thickness) mainly depends on 3 things: 1. the height of the wall from ground level; 2. the length of the wall (or length to the nearest buttress; 3. the thickness of the wall (and whether it is solid, or built with separate skins).

I understand what you're gettting at, but the most experienced engineer in the world wont be able to do the sums unless as a minimum they knew the size, spacing and grade of the bars. By the time they found this out by digging around, it might be too late!

A beam continuous over two spans will have a reverse ('hogging') bending moment over the centre (party wall) support. This reverse moment reduces the bending stress in the spans each side. Once the beam is cut at the party wall, you immediately loose that hogging moment and thereby increase the...