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hi, thanks for the reply although I'm not on a mission to have the levelest floor in the uk, I'm just looking for a solution so I can pop some nice wood boards down. The room is currently in a warehouse state, i.e. no drywalls no skirting, no doors. So this isn't a prime concern. head hight is...

hi, I need to level off a 4x12metre room, at the moment its quite uneven with slabs and a concrete slab. Its hard to say but I think upto 20mm in places. Everywhere I read says screen should be minimum of 50mm or thereabouts. Self leveling compounds look extremely expensive. The floor is...

not sure, its an old clay pipe, wide ass bore. its cracked so theres no internal pipe or anything fancy.

hi all, Just dug up my bathroom floor to try and get an extra 10cm out of it. We have dug it out to around 30cm's and sat right in the middle is a 6" rainwater waste pipe. I'm going to change it for a 4" plastic pipe but the main problem is the pipe is about as high as where I want my floor...

hi pine, I'm afraid I can't figure out your drawing. think I'm going to go with the block pocket, it seems the most straight forward solution considering the wall I'm working with. its either that or I'm tearing the whole thing down and replacing everything up there....

I didn't go into the detail earlier of what I'm looking to achieve here, but the beam I am placing will act as an end beam for the current rafters and I will run new short rafters/joists to the adjacent wall to support the boards you can see in the pictures. hope that makes sense? there is...

hi, thanks for the suggestion, when you say make a pocket in the blockwork would I just drill a series of holes and chisel out the hole, what kind of depth should I achieve? I've used simpson before and you're right the sfwh does look like it could do the job, although I still need to get to...

here are the pics. it shows both sides of where I want to place the new beam. from this beam I will place one maybe two more small joists perpendicular. This structure will offer support to the flat wood you can see being held up by the acro props.

i will try and get a pic hopefully tomorrow. the stud wall is actually a wooden beam holding up a timber framed wall above it. the beam I'm putting in is to offerup more/better support to one end of a shallow pitch roof which currently has terrible timber support. I would prefer not...

hi all, I have a bit of a conundrum here, I need to add a supporting beam to an existing bit of my building. on one side I have timber, the other side is breezeblock (not sure what type?) I am wondering what the best method of attaching the beam to this breeze block wall will be? This is...

cheers for the posts guys. I just wanted to make it clear I'm not pouring sand or cement down my drains, but the contaminated water that is used will be poured out onto my land which eventually will run down the drain. There is some grassland up the road but its too far to lug the buckets to...

hi, I'm about to embark on replacing a floor. I will have to use wall members (sometimes called ledgers) and joist hangers. This question is about bolting the member to the wall. I know to bolt every 600 but i'm not sure what size bolt? If I bonded threaded bar to the brick should I use...

these beams support an upper floor, we are in the middle of renovating this house so above will become bedrooms, below dining room. it was previously just open space (warehouse/storage) and the collapsed roof would most likely be the source of water ingress.