Recent content by Tony2111

Thanks Woody, will ensure I speak to builder aboutaoqcking withwadequate materials. With regard to the red bricks, I'm presuming you mean about cold air meeting hot air? Walls around bifolds are packed with insulation, does this not remedy any bridging issues? Regarding switches, the wiring is...

This is what it currently looks like. As you can see, quite a wedge of a gap there.

Hiya, yeah, timber with brick commencing on top of the timbers. So essentially, as long as he packs with something durable and strong enough, we should be good? Cheers.

He's used small steel spacers to even up the bottom but the gap between the steal and the timber above is probably around 15mm plus in spaces as what Noseall said regarding timber shrinkage seems to apply here. Thanks though. As I said, they've been slapdash, unfortunately wasn't able to be...

Thanks for the response, both the RSJs I'm concerned about are holding up the main body of the house. Essentially, we've a Victorian house with the rear extension. Works undertaken were side return and addition to back. The two steels have the wait of the upper floors on them hence why, to me...

Hi guys, was wondering whether anyone could offer some advise regarding RSJs that our builder has installed. The job was done at breakneck speed and as a result the RSJs weren't level which I challenged builder over. Subsequently, they've decided to try lowering them by 10mm to get them level...