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Not read this whole thread so this may have already been asked but if the OP was so concerned but this wall behind constructed why did he wait until it was pretty much completed before calling the council? You can't tell me that wall was put up in an afternoon. Why wait until all that money...

If no scaffold was used and it was built overhand then the though of the risk to people passing underneath from falling items/materials makes me shudder! Poe

Na, I'm sure people will get the point of the post now. Cheers though.

Raised floor bed!!! It's meant to read flower bed. One day I'll learn how to check my spelling!

Hi, Putting in a raised floor bed, it's approx 12m in length and 55cm in hight. Constructed from concrete blocks laid on their flat. I was going to run perforated land drain 60mm or 80mm behind it. But would this be worth it given the hight and width of the wall. Would rubble and 10mm clean...

The wall is single skinned. I wasn't planning on building the wall higher (with bricks). I was think of two ways to fix the new joists here. One would be to sit the joists on top of the existing spine timber wall plate using longer timbers to form an overlap and sister the overlapping ends...

Ha, ha, I didn't it again we both posted at the same time. Both with the same idea. The wall is brick, but I will need to check a few more areas to be sure as it's an ex council property and they could have made up the courses with whatever they had. Poe

Thanks SpaceWorm, Can remember how I worked out the joist size as it was a while ago but I came out with 10x2 timber minimum. I would be putting extra loads through the spine wall as the new floors would be wall plated to the sides of it. Cheers Poe.

Would 8x2 joists not be on the small side for a 4200 span? I have 2700 from the top of the ceiling joists to the underside of the ridge. The roof trusses are 3x2" so will need beefing up for the insulation and air gap. I would guess that with leaving the purlins in and making the trusses deeper...

RonnyRaygun, Sorry I'm a bit behind your posts, you seem to be posting as I'm still responding to your earlier ones. But yes you have got my idea.

Pillsbury, Exactly my thoughts to much work out there now to bother with smaller jobs. Ronny Raygun, The reason I mentioned flitch and rsj beams is originally I was going the more traditional route with dwarf purlin walls running the full length and may still require this but looking at it I...

Sorry I thought I had attached all the images but clearly not. The spans of the joist would be 3450 and 4120. What I'm an proposing would be to put in the joists and using these and the existing spine wall plate build a structural stud wall to support the top two purlins. The bottom purlin...

Hi all, I've asked for advice previously both here and on Screwfix forum so sorry to be bothering you again. I have been in contact with two structural engineering companies who (after contacting numerous others with no interest or response) have promised to get back to me with quotes but both...

Thanks for the reply. Your probably faster than me, I was thinking 2 or 3 days, just struggling to visualise the work. There will be other repairs no doubt so I'm going to go with 3 days. Cheers, Poe.

Hi all, Been asked to replace 24 meters of feather board fencing (6 foot boards). Posts and rails to remain. It's been a while since I've done much fencing so need to be sure my labour charge is not to far off. Remove old boards and replace with new. Cheers.

Thank you for replying. Well it's my second time of complaining to them. I complained when it first got delivered as I thought it was light, a builder over the road also said I'd be lucky if it was 5 tonne. I have measured and remeasured a hundred times and put it into the calculators. I just...

Ticket says 10 tonne hand written not printed. The trench is 19m X 30cm X 50cm Plus a little for the pier areas When I put all that info (properly measured) into online calculators these are telling me it would need 5 - 6 tonne depending on the site used. Even at the 2.4 tonne per M3 I'm still...

I'm having a dispute with my local aggregate supplier. I ordered 10 tonne of all in ballast to mix my own concrete for a foundation. I started mixing one section of foundation this required 3m3 of concrete yet I have used all 10 tonne that was delivered. I worked out it would only require...

Thanks woody, I'll call them this week and check with them. Poe.

The wall will be 6 foot in hight. Would rather the piers to on the outer face especially if the piers will be full blocks laid flat sized. Smaller piers wouldn't be so bad which is why I thought my idea of a block upright either side followed by two courses of block on their flat across the top...