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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...

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 The old FF ceiling/ loft floor has been replaced by new joists, 200x50 at 400 centres.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...

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...

I need to connect a steel post to a steel already in place. SE has specified 4 m16 bolts for the connection. That in itself is fine, I would just drill the steel and bolt up, but the steel has already been packed with timber - just to sense check myself, should i be notching out this timber for...

I'm currently working on my dormer loft conversion, doing it diy so bear with if any of the questions are a bit obvious! I have plans through from the engineer but there isn't too much on the actual frame. I've attached the drawings - as part of this we have had to lower the FF ceiling, which...

Whilst doing my loft conversion, i've uncovered a beam spanning across the hallway upstairs (I imagine it would be the same downstairs). Its 2 beams, one on top and one on the bottom, with bricks in between. I can't figure out what the purpose of these bricks would be, and why just 1 larger...

My SE has specified face fix joist hangers for the new floor joists in my loft conversion. Looking online, I can only see 47x106mm, then it jumps to 47x167mm. The 106 would be too small for the joist I assume as it doesn't meet the 60% depth requirement, and the 167 wouldn't allow me to get all...

I've got new steels going in for a loft conversion which involves lowering the floors. One side of the brick/ padstone is now the right height for the steel after redoing some of the mortar, but I just can't get the other side to the right height without removing and replacing loads of brick...

I'm looking to do a loft dormer soon, but can't decide on a warm or cold roof. I would much rather a warm roof as it seems more reliable and generally better performance (and easier to install without all the venting), but I can't get the height to work with the building regs insulation...

I'm looking to increase the ridge height of my semi detached house, but not sure the best way to go about it. The reason behind it is to obviously increase the ceiling height, as I want to then put a dormer on, but would much rather some decent head height than what i will end up with (around...