Recent content by xaerocool49

Hi all, @^woody^ Thank you very much, Sorry for not responding before. The project got paused do to some family health issues, I had a follow up question, on the downstairs leaf there is the staircase hanging off one leaf, the original house side. If you remove the outer leaf here wouldn't...

@noseall Thank you I think i was ambiguous The wall that has the downstairs removed is a different wall not the wall i want to take the leaf out on. The wall i want to remove the leaf from us currently a 2 story cavity wall running along the side of the house. It will just have a door way...

Dear community We have been given permission to do a 2 story side extension on a semi detached house, on the upstairs they will not let us go full width as they said it creates a terracing effect if all the houses are connected at the top. It has to be semi detached. This leaves a very small...

@blup Thanks for coming back to me, there are 3 course of brick above the top of the wall plate, (4 or 5 from each bolt due to the staggerring) and there is then a 3 x 4 inch timber across the top of the bricks. Is gravity and force not going downward? Sorry if that's a silly question. There...

@DAZB Thanks for the swift response I think the extended screws would have needed to be done before the joist hangers as they are covering the ends of the extended pieces now but I'll ask him. Does it matter the far end of the joist is also on hangers? but those are hangers that are going...

Hi all, I tried to search through various threads but couldn't find an answer that answered my question, various posts about hanging joists and wall plates but none answered my question. Changing the construction of the internal house and making a bathroom and bedroom a bigger means having to...

Hi @Hugh Jaleak, @Wayners Many thanks for your answers, yes there is a second vent stack. It's a 1930's semi with a two storey side extension so the first vent runs up through the middle of the house, up through the loft and out of the roof tiles. This is a new stack at the very back of the...

Hi there, I have a new soil stack going into the sewers, the ground workmen did the ground works and capped the pipe for when the new ensuite was ready which i'm doing myself on the first floor. I have a pergola on the back of the house. The new toilet soil pipe comes out underneath the...

Hi All, Hoping i can get some assistance, my builder seems to have gone walkabout as I started finding some flaws with his work and after making various excuses that everything was fine he is no longer responding to me. I was in the midst of a garage to habitable room conversion, but noticed...

Dear experts, I have tiling along the bath edge, there is a wall that runs along the full length of bath and also across the top end of the bath too. The problem is the silicon keeps getting mouldy. I have removed and replaced from scratch 3 times now. All the way from scratch. This...