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I would say that the 25mm screws to fix the resilient bars to the joists would be fine, the thickness of the flange on the bars is only a millimeter if that so you have almost all of the screw in the joist. The plaster board to resilient bars screws only need to be the thickness of the...

Yes I will, I hadn't noticed that detail in the calcs. Cheers.

Hi, Thanks for the advice....Looks like it's 3 bricks then :D You're not the 1st to say that bolting down the steels is a waste of time, but I'm assuming that if it's shown on the calcs it will have to be done, unless the BCO is happy to overlook it. Actually while looking at the calcs...

OK here we go.... I've posted about this before on the forum but as that topic is a couple of years old I may as well start over again. My house looked like this (The red line represents the two 5.5 metre 254 x 146 x 43 UB's that we now need to install.) It now looks like...

Hi, Thanks for the reply's. The house in my picture looks very similar to the one in stuart45's picture so I guess it will have been built the same ...."Cross Wall Construction". I was just trying to get my head around how the house I pictured only has a brick & a half return but I'm being...

Hi, Ok I'm a bit confused with this so I'll try my best to describe what I mean. A house has 4 elevations, Front, Back, & Two sides. From what I have been told by a structural engineer & the building control officer the corners of each elevation must have at least 3 bricks (approx...

Thanks for that. I have a structural engineer coming next week to look at something else so I'll ask him about it when he's here. As mentioned in my other posts, ideally the return will be removed and the remaining wall extended over to the the gable wall of the house. I'm pretty sure I...

Can anyone tell me if the wall that the RSJ is sitting on does need a return? I'm just wondering why it would have one if it wasn't necessary? Thanks.

Hi, So if the wall that the RSJ is sitting on doesn't need a return pier why have we got a return on it now? :?: I would have thought that if the house builder could have got away without building a return they would have, given the rest of the corner cutting throughout the house. I...

I've edited my above post & diagram as after a bit of measuring I think the return is only 2 bricks. So if the wall wasn't masonry how could I give support to the wall supporting the RSJ, would a pier do that ? I need a partition wall under the RSJ regardless as this is to separate the...

Hi, I'm after some advice on removing a part of a wall that supports an RSJ that supports the 1st floor, floor joists. My plan diagram below shows the RSJ (Red) and the wall that it sits on, the other end of the RSJ sits into the gable end wall of the house. We would like to remove the...

Hi, yes, fix through the frame & the cill as you say, when fixed put a dab of silicone over the head of the fixing. The advice I have given is my own way of fixing a window frame, as I said I'm no expert and others may contradict my advice. Some fitters like to fit the cill to the opening...

Hi, I'm no window fitting expert but I have fitted a couple in my time and your fixings up the side & bottom look fine. I would use 1 top fixing on a window of that size, I would put it in the middle. Some will say it's not necessary or shouldn't be fixed at the top but it stops the head from...

Hi, Thanks for your reply. I should have mentioned that the stud wall is also supporting a small tiled roof (48 tiles) that's why the OSB has been specified to add strength to the wall, not that it needs it as it would probably hold a battle ship up the way I've built it. I couldn't...

Hi, as part of my ongoing extension I've built a stud wall with a door to separate my garage from the utility room. The wall is made from 100mm x 50mm timber and insulated between the studs & noggins with 100mm kingspan (Not foil faced). The utility side of the wall will have 25mm foil...

I haven't read up that much on it I only spotted that yesterday, I think if there is any new legislation it will be next year. Cheers.

Some of that may be changing soon: http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/2063566.pdf

All mud slinging aside :wink: I really don't thing the figures quoted by the manufactures are a true representation of a boiler working in the real world, no matter how you set it! As Dan seems to be a frustrated motor engineer maybe he will understand the point I mad earlier, no matter how...

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Well it appears so, doesn't it.... you're advising me to turn it down etc to make savings, so how can a fair comparison be achieved if the setting are different on the tests. I maintain that the points raised in my last post are valid...you can't have a fair comparison if you start to alter...