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Its getting there and I am starting to think about the roof but that is definitely going to take me out of my comfort zone.

So I have spent the weekend block laying and I am now up to wall plate height on both sides with just the gable end to build up. Unfortunately I have found my first significant error which will need rectifying. I have got my measurements wrong and the window is too far to the left. I think...

Thanks Vaulty I think that has probably answered my first question and I assume there are two birds mouths on each rafter ?

The plan monkey has done pretty well so far and it may be me that’s misunderstanding. This place is helpful at times.

Ok I am getting close to putting the rafters up for the roof of my extension and I am going to have loads of questions as I am no chippy and no roofer. I will eventually have a steel spanning across which will be ridge beam and supporting the roof and this is where I am a little confused...

No further work this week until last night (Thursday 16th July) where I decided to install my goalpost arrangement for my ridge beam. This steel work will support the main ridge beam for the roof and is bolted together using 12 mm bolts but will eventually be welded. I was a little silly trying...

Right I am back again ! I really need to start updating this thread as I go as I am forgetting the problems I have faced. I ended up taking a much needed week away from DIY which was partly due to the weather and partly due to the pubs opening :rolleyes: I thought I had already documented the...

So I am in the process of hanging my joists in my extension but I have an issue. I have bolted timber in to the web of the steel to fix my hangers to but the timber is not flush with the steels so I am having to notch out the corner of each joist. should I have gone for thicker timber to make...

Ok so the BCO came out and approved my steels so another weekend was spent block laying. I am now in need of another lift on my scaffold and I can start thinking about fitting joists for the floors. This will be an interesting task as its a job I have never completed.

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It may sound a little daft but it wasn’t that hard. Once through my window opening and on a support it was fairly easy to get it on the beam lifters. They were key and did all the real hard work. I wish I had taken more Photo’s really. .

Funnily enough one of them was a woman who turned up in flip flops

12 mm ?

Barring the steel only £111 paid out for the beam lifters. None of the people who helped were builders all just mates.

Two existing walls one being the solid house wall and the other a cavity wall that will be rendered. No big issue with either through bolts or resin really but through bolts seem less of a faf. I go resin anchor I guess they would need to be about 170 mm with a 100mm in the wall or should I go...

I mean mechanical anchors/through bolts not coach bolts

Do regs state it has to be anchors and resin as opposed to coach bolts or similar ?

Yea sorry I call it a wall plate but it’s a ledger. I am tempted to buy hangers that bolt straight to the blocks but others have said a ledger is an easier route.

To be fair all but one were only here for an hour. Once it was on the beam lifters it took minimal work. The thought of doing it was actually harder than the doing !