Recent content by tony1851

As Collectors points out, what about insulation. Usually 100 PIR is required for floors, involving some further excavation. Are Building Control on board? I might be wrong but it could be that an application is required? (We were quoted £13,466.79 for the kitchen floor work alone. Could they...

As you mentioned, timber under long-term load is subject to permanent deformation (aka 'creep'). You might make things worse if you attempt to jack the ceiling up under the middle. You might find small horizontal cracks opening up at the top ot the walls where the ceiling joists lift slightly...

There might be a DPC, or there might not. If you found this post useful, please give it a 'like'.

Galvanised ties shouldn't be used on external walls. Portland cement mortars and renders eventually turn very slightly acidic, which then attacks the galvanising, hence the rust. If left and just rendered over, the ongoing rust will continue, expand and crack the new render. You need to coat it...

These days birds, newts, bats and creatures coming in from north-west Europe seem to have precedence for housing over the native Brit species.

100 years (1926)...............so?

I wondered about that: even under its own weight, deflection would be +10mm before anything was put on it.

Could you not build that section of wall with insulated timber studwork?

Several above have commented on whether or not checking engineers actually check figures, or if the inspector just files them away. Most times we don't know. Some inspectors know a 'little bit' about structural design. The attached is part of a three-page comments monologue I received two weeks...

Some building control bodies have their own in-house checking engineers, others use third party private SEs. As there would be a cost to getting an outsider check the figures, I presume there would be an incentive for the Inspector just to file the papers away?

Whereabouts in Manchester are you?

Hopefully!, if we get the right people in.

I've heard that by using the Eurocode for steel, a designer could save 5- 10% of weight of steel used in a large framed building. But its really intended for spreadsheets, as doing EC3 calcs by hand can be fiendishly difficult. The old BS codes are a bit easier in that respect, though they are...

Just put yourself down as everything - its a box-ticking exercise so that they can give you the Certificate. Its all nonsense of course, deriving from Judith Hacketts' Grenfell enquiry, providing what the Report calls 'golden threads' (whatever that means?) for just more meaningless, pointless...

Like Britain, I think these things rarely collapse, they just gently decline.