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Hi there, I am renovating a terraced house in London. All the old lath and plaster internal walls and ceilings have been removed. I have also hacked off all the old plaster from the external brick walls (on the inside of the property). I will insulate and add new plasterboard and skim the...

Hi there, I have a bathroom on the 1st floor of a terraced house. Currently, there are old wood floorboards on wood floor beams. I would like to install UFH and then tile. What would be the best way to do this? I had thought of removing the floorboards, laying down waterproof 18mm plywood...

As you can see, my neighbour's builder could have done with asking the same question I am asking. That's the steel for their loft. Pw by Oceans247 posted 13 May 2020 at 1:28 PM

Hello again Woody. With what tool do you recommend cutting the bricks in half? I would assume any percussion tools would cause the plaster to fall off the wall on the neighbour's side.

Hi guys, They are fully aware. But them being aware does not help. What I need is to remove bricks from the party wall... How best to do it is the question... I do have a party wall award but it makes absolutely no reference as to how to actually cut out the pockets. I am less concerned...

Hi there, I need to cut pockets for padstones and steel beams. Is there some magic way of doing this without damaging the neighbours side? The pointing/mortar is old and soft, so I planned on scraping it our above and below the bricks for the horizontal ones and then removing the bricks like...

Hi there, I have a silly question (or three). My structural engineer has specified various beams and joists etc for the loft conversion. For example, TR1 is specified to be "2No.50x125dp C24 Timber Joists". But when I google that I can't find those exact dimensions and matching C rating...

Thank you Woody. Can you be more specific about which trade would take care of the chimney breast support/removal? I have requested that the steel fabricators also install the steels. I have not discussed the chimney stack with them as I wanted to inform myself a bit before I have that...

Hi there, I am doing a loft conversion on a terraced house. Both neighbours have already done loft conversions (unfortunately). I say unfortunately as I believe this just makes my loft conversion slightly more complicated with regards to waterproofing and joining to their structures. Nither...

Having done several renovation projects over the past few years I am now taking on my most complex project yet (in London).