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If it's every few years it needs a paint then that's great, i'd probably change it for something else in a few years anyway!

Not as far as I know. But then I would be painting it with an exterior paint, so this should mostly weatherproof it

Good to know - how has the paint held up for you/ have you had to repaint? Any pics of it would be great, I can't fully visualise what it would look like

That's a good shout, I can cut the big sheets down to thirds and have long vertical strips. How often is regular for the painting? The roof has a slight overhang and there's a fence next to it, so shouldn't get battered with the weather. I may even put a bit of trellis on top of it and allow...

I've built an outbuilding, and am in the process of cladding it now. It's concrete block all round (had to incorporate a retaining wall into it), which i've battened and clad with timber on half of it. On the other half, down the fence side, I can't bring myself to spend the massive cost on...

The house is going to be split into flats, so want/ need to minimise sound as much as possible. Sound proofing to building regs is pretty minimal, so I want to go quite a bit beyond this as I will still be living in the property.

Any suggestions on best products here?

I need to provide some good soundproofing on my newly installed loft floor. The old FF ceiling/ loft floor has been replaced by new joists, 200x50 at 400 centres. The SE has said I need to glue and screw ply to the joists so I won't be able to float the subfloor. The current plan is to put...

Just posting incase anyone is curious: I got through to the tech team at Simpson, who informed me that you are not allowed to use the safety fast lite hangers on anything other than masonry. The other option I mentioned with the extra long hangers was the advisors preferred method - I expressed...

Yeah I would be attaching to timber with the long ones - 6 on the 'front' face of a 4x3 (i.e. the 3 inch side), then wrapped over and 12 on top, and 8 on the back, there would be about 80mm excess which I could snip off. I'll give Simpson a ring tomorrow and see if they can confirm either, and...

Thanks @^woody^ - I have emailed them already, but I might try giving them a call tomorrow, and if all good will see if they can follow up in writing, as I imagine my BCO will want to see it. If they come back and say no, is my option above viable, with the long leg hangers? Bit of a side note...

I saw these but it says for masonry walls, and i'll have the timber sole plate on top (pink in my diagram). Can they be hooked on to timber too? If so, they're perfect

I still can't find a joist hanger that would work with this setup so emailed Simpson, but no response yet. What I could do is use a 4x3 sole plate instead of a 4x2, which should allow for more face fixings on the hanger. Per hanger I could get 6 in on the front face, 12 on top, and 8 on the...

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Just looking at the levels now more of the roof is off, and it looks like the height of joist I need is around 55mm higher than the top of the brick. It may be far simpler to just bed a sole plate on top of this, build the dormer wall off of it and hang the joists from it too. I'm not too sure...

Amazing, thanks! Is it fine to put packers between the brick and joists, to get them level? The brickwork is far from perfect.

Thanks @^woody^ - would I sit the floor joists directly onto the inner skin of brick then, and noggin between at this end? So remove 2 courses of internal brick, DPC on top of brick (mortar underneath or no?), then joists and noggins directly on top, sole plate on top of joists, build wall off...

Yeah the joists don't need a plate, but i'll be building a dormer wall on top of it too. Currently there are 100x50 rafters sitting on the wall, and 100x50 for the loft floor. Both of these will be removed, with the floor lowered 15cm, and 200x50 floor joists, then a flat roof dormer will be...

Alternatively I could just remove 2 courses of brick, and notch a quarter of the ends of the joists and sit on a wall plate, which would mean less bricks removed. Any thoughts?

I'm building an l shaped loft dormer, with lowered loft floor ( 25cm) as a requirement for planning. The house steps down a little at the back, so because of this, If I attach the wall plate to the face of the brick, it will extend over the top of the brick, and any fixings will be in the top 1...