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House is having MHRV so ventilation is already sorted. Anyway the issue is a roof window at the end of narrow tunnel. Either you need mirrors or a wider tunnel.

I should have made clear that this is an extension with a new roof so the tunnel or window would be fitting with the roof. Assuming 600 centre trusses and 550mm wide velux there is little difference in the work in fitting in the tiles. The issue I think is the capture area. A 14in 350mm light...

Does anyone have any data on how these compare? I've stairs and landing in the corner of an L shaped house. Downstairs is a glass front door, but with a porch, and upstairs a 1m x 2m (wxh) window, both in the corner. The upstairs landing is ~4.7m x 3.8m, plus a bit of corridor going off...

I forgot to add, the bricks are 150kg/m2 so say 300kg of wall. Wind pressure is at most 1kPa or 1kN/m2, ~ 2kN for the wall, or ~ 200 kgf. Gut feel is that should work but does show it needs the tie to the house. Of course I'll need proper structural calcs. Bricks would be rustic type, with...

No, it's just a free standing wall, but at 1st floor level. My current plan is to use engineering bricks with 3 holes in them. They are 100mm wide and have a hole to take a reinforcing rod. At the base, where it sits on the lower wall I'll revert to cellular block (i.e. blocks with a cavity...

Hi, Comments, suggestions? Downstairs is 100+50+100 standard cavity wall. As this goes up it becomes ceiling/flat roof on the inside leaf and cavity. Outer skin carries on up to be single leaf wall (flat roof is balcony and this is the privacy wall. It's tied to the house (somehow, this is...

OK... I would have thought it a given that if you are painting a house wall you use masonry paint. Would anyone use anything else? Or maybe I dunno what you mean by plastic paint.

Did you do this? Did it last?

Well to be fair, they made the same mistake in Skyfall. I mean who wouldn't connect the cell locks up to the internet/intranet and then plug a suspect laptop into the same network :-).

I'll answer my own question then for the benefit of others. House is new cavity wall block work. This page, from a manufacturer of blocks, says I'm best to stick to tradition render since new one coats have had failures that are currently unexplained (so there is no fix to stop it happening...

I have a think about this and is there any reason I couldn't do the rear leaf as a stud wall but with a vertical DPM (Blue plastic stuff like used for floors maybe?). I'd use treated timbers as well I reckon. So something like this: Top left is brickwork, middle is 80x80 steel post, then...

First off, I am paying for drawings but I like to be in advance of the drawings so I know my options. Current drawings, simple for planning, building regs to follow, show a brick face as that's what I said. I'm now wondering how that's going to work out. I don't see what's wrong with having a...

Over the top is a corner lintel (L shape). This comes with a metal post. Standard size is 80x80mm, 100mm in from outside edges (so allows for a 100mm brick front). The post does all the work I'm told.

OK, it could have been clearer if I had attached a drawing :-(. Here is a rough drawing. Windows are just something I've found, not the real windows, but they show where the windows go. Outside is brickwork to match house. For a old style wall, 100+50+100, then pier is 250x250, with 50mm...

Hi, Anyone know what the regs are on a timber internal leaf for a cavity wall? The problem I have is where 2 doors join at a corner. Over these doors is a corner lintel, L shaped. At the corner this has a support post 80x80mm. Cavity is only 50mm. In plan view this is a 250x250mm pier...

Hi, I've found some old threads on this subject but I'm still confused as to which way is best. This is a house remodelling. A whole new 1st floor. Walls are outer skin of medium density block. These are smooth rendered. Render stops at ground floor window top. Which is the best system...

FYI floplast have a interesting board, double sided L or U. U354, 9mm thick, 354mm wide, legs 43mm outside so 34mm inside. The 354mm is outside too so 336mm inside. My wall is ~20+100+50+100 = 270mm, maybe another +20mm, so that's 33mm or 23mm overhang which doesn't sound too far out...

Interest idea of roof battens. I don't know that would work though. The idea of a board across the top is to seal off the cavity, and support the fascia trim. That way I could have thinner upvc which is cheaper. 9mm rather than 18 or 22mm. 9mm works out as 4 x £10 where as 22mm would be...

Good point about the lead. Probably not worth a great deal as scrap if it is only ~£100 bought but might still be a temptation. Do you have a link for the fibreglass roof trims? Yes, I was wondering about upvc fascia board. The top of wall could be capped with osb screwed to the brickwork...

Hi, I've house remodel project and in that I have 2 parapet walls (5deg slope). As they are 1st floor height I don't want to coping stones. I've looked at aluminium coping but these seem to be made order and "loads of money". I've 2 2.1m runs, latest quote was £640! (ex vat). The "cheap" al...