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That was exactly what I was thinking! Wow! We've had to take the 1st floor back to studs but they're good, solid, actual 2x3 hardwood and, whilst nothing is straight or square, it is solid .

Do you think it would need sheathing in and out? Or just put would be enough? How on earth so standard sheds stay up with the 1x2 framing at 800mm centres

I forgot to mention, we would sheath the outside with OSB before cladding (not just featheredge board on frame) if that changes anything?

Not possible unfortuantely. Wall is not ours and the area the shed is on is raised up to 1st floor (and the 1st floor is mansard with tiles!) Lots of complications with this house as we are on a hill. The front garden is raised 75cm, he back garden is raised 1m on the left and 2.5m on the right...

If we do an apex roof, we'll have rafters with an OSB triangle at the top of each set. Didn't intend on full trusses. It's such a small width. If we go flat/mono pitch, we'd probably build flat and add fittings.

The doors will open outwards. Thanks! It'll be stacked boxes mainly. I might have to rethink the double doors. My issue is that we need somewhere to put our current stored things (from the garage, brick sheds and car port) before we can get rid of those buildings/do work on them but the...

It's quite sheltered, between a brick wall and the house. When you say diagonal in the roof... I can't picture that. Diagonal from where to where? Or rafter to rafter? Excuse my slow brain. It's bedtime but these questions pop into my head at inopportune moments!

I've already thought that through. It's not a permeant through route that would be used regularly. I just don't want to permanently block the front to back access when we still have work to do in a garage at the end of the garden and landscaping etc so we will still have the option to get waste...

Hi, I'd like to build a shed similar to this photo (ideally a dual pitch roof as photo but may need to do a monopitch, if that changes anything) but I would have double doors at both ends in order to retain front to back access on the property. Would I need to reinforce the building in any way...

Sorry for the late reply! That's just what I thought I would need, thank you! Apparently they were quite common in the type of house we're in (a Cornish Unit) but it absolutely is not finished to a high standard! Ha! It's the usual ex-council house from the 50s - wonky door frames, sloping...

Hi, We are replacing our copper soil stack with PVC. It runs internally, in a straight line, from bathroom floor down to kitchen floor where it enters a flanged clay pipe. The copper waste pipe is 90mm in diameter and the hole in the clay pipe that it sits in looks to be the same (a very small...

Hi, We have an awkward window/bathroom/budget situation. The window has strange angles to it due to the "ashlar" walls and nothing being straight. We have a corner bath with overhead shower going in (to appease all the varying requests) under the window and we will be tiling the window wall...

Yeah, it is awkward. id have loved the extra roof space to make it feel bigger than it is. How do you stop water ingress and damp. Is it the lead flashing between old and new roofs that does that?

Sorry, it's not mine. It's a photo from Google. ours has some obvious defining features so I'd rather use already publicly available photos. I know that makes things difficult, I apologise. It is a Cornish unit house, fully bricked up. I've attached a photo from Google of the exact construction...

Hi! We are looking at putting an enclosed porch at the front of our house and I'm trying to understand the roofing options and process. I'd love an apex roof but wondering if a flat roof might be less interfering as we have a mansard roof. I've seen the below image. Our 1st floor walls are at a...

I forgot to mention two things: 1. There will be built in style wardrobes on the wall to the right so not too worried about looks for that. 2. The door frame is built right up to the wall. The plaster is crumbling in the corners the whole way up. We do not have the space to plasterboard over...

Hi all, I had lots of great advice on the joist situation of our chimney breast removal. That's been dealt with and we are now trying to work out the best way to repair the bedroom wall. It has raggedy brick sections and some cement render sections as well as a filled in old door which will have...

Thanks all for your advice. My uncle came round last weekend and cut all the wires, put the ledger board up and new joist parts and reconnected the electrics. That part is now done, floor boarded over but the ground floor is yet to go :rolleyes:

Because I paid a professional to investigate it. I wouldn't know what to look for. I have 3 builders look. 2 said it was load baring, 1 said it wasn't. The SE came along and said it was. I had to trust that.

Hi, We had a structural engineer visit and tell us the wall we wanted removed was load baring. It was a 3m wall between kitchen and dining room, front to back, parallel with joists. He said it was supporting the timber frame wall above (2.2m in length, directly above) and a joist sitting...