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Well, if we are wrong Tony, then we apologise to both you and the OP. In our defence we admit that we are not clever enough to calculate rafter sizes, instead we have to rely on TRADA SPAN TABLES. The OP states his rafter length is 6200, We make it 6135. We quote Trada span table for a...

Salt Box. Not done one now for years It would appear that your long pitch is on the front, therefore on a 4700 half run from overall front plate to centre of ridge will be 6135 slope (hypotenuse). 50x200 C24 at 400mm centres will be way, way undersized and you will need a purlin. If you...

Catlad is right. You are working ar*se about face. 6500 width gives 5900 span. 75x220 C16 at 400 centres with an imposed load (snow load) of 0.75KN/m2 and a dead load of 0.50 KNm2 with access only for maintenance and repair will span 6170. So your joists will comply. If you are doing a warm...

Hey Tony, Do B&Q also supply a suit of armour, or do you wear standard overalls :) Any chance of putting it on U Tube Tony. :lol: Regards oldun

Whether the pad stone is over sized or under sized by the SE is neither here nor there. Providing you have fitted what is specified, then you have complied with your part of the contract. End of story It is just as easy to fit a 440x215 as a 215x150. OP Sliding a pad stone behind cable of...

Maybe to late for you now. Forget all about your needles and propping as your builder has not installed the supporting non composite lintel or the USB all as the SE drawing and specification. SE states padstone either end of USB and the concrete lintel also sitting on the pad stone. He does...

If you had posted once instead of posting twice with different headings, (Brickie Cost - Is it per square meter?) Read more: http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=13#ixzz31sj2LfSU then there would be no need for this post as it was answered in the above post. Be a good lad and make...

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We had both a 3CX and a 3 ton 360 and will promise that if you have been on a 3CL or 3CZX for a number of years, then you will be all fingers and thumbs for a good half a day when you jump on a 360. As you know the controls on a site master are 45, 135, 225 and 315 degrees, where as on a 360...

Remember giving you a price for this of £1600 from DPC to 2400 storey height. Just dug out our figures. Took depth as 6000 and width 6500 = 44.4ms less openings say7.5ms = say 37ms DPC to storey height. 37ms face brickwork = 2220 bricks @ £400.00 per thousand = £888.00 cavity insulation...

Indy, Thems not bricklayers my old son, nor do they know anything about current Building Regs. Cut the split out from the cavity, parge and tidy up the badly cut bats on the face work,and fit cavity closure to size required. We use Thermobate, not the cheapest, but in our opinion the best...

As Nose has said, pump it. If you still wish to go self mix route, hire either a 5/3.5 or 7/5 Two lads with a 5/3.5 will turn out 2.1 cm per hour and with a 7/5 3.3 cm per hour. Add your own time on for transport and laying. Regards oldun

No. On a building notice application it is their job to either accept it or reject it. If they reject if, they will tell you why, and possibly you will have to start all over again. No body is going to be able to give you any advice whether roof should be trusses or cut on the scant...

Sorry for typing error. Should read £1600.00. (Sixteen hundred pounds). oldun :oops:

Get a price, not day work On the quantity you have, and the distance from point of unloading to point of lay not exceeding 20 metres, budget for E1600, from DPC to plate. You to supply mixer, bandstands and scaffold boards, water butt, hose, spot boards and barrow, At last bricklayers are...

There are a couple of ways to improve the situation. Confirm the new size of joists, the joist span and that they are running flank to flank and not from existing house wall to rear of new extension. Regards oldun

] Normally we would not answer your posts, but in this instance. as you have shown honesty, we will do so. Unless you know the area in which you are working, or have not dug a 2m deep trial hole and possibly had an Attererberg soil test carried out, then you will have no idea of the...

To comply your target U value is 0.28 W/m2K There are numerous ways to achieve this target and the one we prefer for various reasons is, Brick. Solid fill with 100mm, DriTherm 34 super, either Plasmor Aglite or Plasmoor Fibolite, Dot, Dab and Skim We prefer Aglite as they are a more dense...