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As far as wedding photography is concerned that seems like not a bad price, but I'd have expected them to have been printed professionally. If the prints/originals are good then count yourself lucky - I've seen some shockers for the same money and spent hours trying to rescue something from a...

The problem is, it all depends on what you're concentrating on whether you may or may not notice a suspect material. In the case I mentioned where we reported on it, I had been into the eaves storage space, and looked around at all the beams/principal rafters/ties and not given a second thought...

It's fairly standard to get the straight runs pre-fabricated to just drop into the trenches, but it is the corners that are a bit more complicated. If you've got an RC schedule and drawing after a few hours of studying you should be able to make some sense of it! Basic lap lengths should be...

We've got a standard clause in our reports (SE) that states that we're not experts at identifying asbestos or moulds - because we aren't. We do structure, pipe lagging doesn't fall under that! We did have an interesting situation where a client sent a nasty letter stating that we should have...

I'd go for Thor Helical as they're easier to buy to use yourself. We've always found Helifix unwilling to sell the helibar and only supply it to their accredited installers.

Pictures would help, there's probably a thread around somewhere that tells you how to do it. A bit more info about the structure would help. Is it a single pitch lean-to or a duo-pitched roof? What exactly is the beam in the middle of the room supporting? What is the beam i.e. steel or...

If you're worried about it, make sure that when you buy it you find out who the current insurers are. Make sure you take a policy out with them (even if they cost more) and you should be ok if you have a later claim. Put it in writing at that time that there may be subsidence concerns that may...

He's doing a project for his brickie's apprenticeship or something. Posted the same but in more detail on another similar forum...

Don't necessarily rush into getting the tree removed. If you do, and then it's no longer drawing water, you may find the clay getting saturated and may be exacerbating the problem. Glass over the crack will tell you if it moves, but you could just get a crack gauge to stick over it for a...

It's a sorry state of affairs when a treehouse becomes a planning issue! FFS, what are you doing in your garden that you're so desperate to prevent your neighbour's kids from seeing?

So mnb, how much should they knock down the asking price by? What happens when they knock £5000 off and then get a tradesperson in who says they think an SE should look at it which leads to a recommendation to underpin the whole house? Chalk it down to experience? I've seen far too many...

100mm bearing onto the inner leaf should be fine. If you do have a stickler of a BCO you could also look at removing the bricks beneath the end of the lintel and cutting the lintel you're taking out down to say 400 mm (2 bricks) and use it as a padstone beneath the new lintel, running along the...

It's a strange one to be sure! Are there any load bearing walls beneath (stud or masonry)? It's not a truss, but looks a bit 'remedial' to me, hence the comment about sagging purlins. Looks alot like propped purlins to allow the purlin size to be kept down. I bet, if it was designed, that...

Not a straightforward job, and not one to be entered into lightly. Any walls you're going to be breaking through will be retaining at present, and the ground they're retaining is also probably holding the rest of the house up. It's out of my league but initial thoughts would be needing to pile...

I concur with the opinion that this isn't actually a truss. If it was there'd be a principal rafter but they all look common to me. Also the 'tie' doesn't even pick up the feet of the rafters, so isn't really doing much. Looks like an attempt to prop some sagging purlins, or, depending on the...

I'd email the picture to your SE and ask their advice. At the end of the day it will be the BCO who decides if he's happy with it but an email from the SE advising a course of action would back you up. Personally I'd say rebuild the pillar on a decent footing tied into the existing wall and...

Hardwoods are not often graded as a matter of course, and so won't be stamped. They can be graded, by visual means, that will certify them to a certain grade, which involves checking knots, the run-off of the grain, wane etc. Not many people are certified by TRADA to grade hardwoods, so they...

If I'm understanding it correctly you want to put two steels in to act as a see-saw balancing eachother under the weight of the bricks. Problem with this is that as soon as the wind blows on one side of it you'll be unbalanced and you're going to have problems with a basically unstable...

Thought that might be the response ;) Basically the point where the moment is zero - goes from hogging to sagging (just to complicate things further). And I spelled it wrong, it's contraflecture I think :oops:

Depends on how the UBs have been designed - continuous over the support or simply supported either side. If it's designed as continuous, this connection will need to resist a moment, which as shown it won't (well, not a very big one). If it's simply supported (unlikely by the look of it)...