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It will be part of the house/kitchen so will be heated via the kitchen radiators. The original garage door will be moved and changed to a fire door.

It's a small room that ajoins a kitchen, and is used for storing items, including boots.

Hi I am building a 100mm stud wall for a boot room which is in an un-insulated garage. To comply with the latest requirements is 100mm of fiberglass acceptable?

He is Gas Safe registered. I did check prior to commissioning him for the work.

Any one point to the para that refers. I am searching but have not found it yet.

Yes it is a new install, what makes you think its old?

Hi I am having a gas pipe laid underground and a compression fitting has been used to join the steel pipe to copper. I was under the impression that compression fittings were not to be used when a gas pipe is below ground (the floor has yet to have the insulation added and screed). Could you...

I have found out that they are laid flat. I would have thought there would have been more compression strength with them laid flat (more surface area to displace the load). Is there an explaination for this reason?

Thank you for the repy. So I think I am hearing to be certain of 20N/mm2 I need the piers built up from the foundations in engineering bricks. Would that be correct?

I have a structural drawing that states that a pier is to be constructed of 20N/mm sq brickwork. The existing block work below ground I can easily dent with a screwdriver. Is it likely that these blocks are not 20N/mm sq? The house is about 17 years old if that helps. I am also thinking I...

Yes some of the old bricks will be replaced with 20N/mm2 brickwork tooth bonded and the steel will sit on this, via a pad stone.

Well it appears now that structural pillars are to be provided. Just so I know, do the new Piers sit on the existing floor level (block and beam) or do they have to go all the way down to the existing concrete foundations?

What is the highest total reaction at the ends of your beam? Could you give me a little more info to understand your point. I can add that the pad stones will when installed be on an internal wall (we have a couple of 600mm nibs as part of the internal structure.

I am having a kitchen extension being built in a shalt style bungalow which involves removing one of the internal walls. Above the wall being demolished is a bedroom and the pitched roof (all wood and tiles. No brick work). The steel specified for the job is 6.7m long x 203 x 203 with a total...

Thank you for your confirmation.

Hi I am having a double skin brick wall extension build and there is some debate if the new outside wall should be tied into the existing brick work with something like Staifix Universal Wall Starter System? The internal block work has been tied in with this stainless steel fixing system. See...

Hi The beams will be fitted below the existing house DPC. What should the action be then in the case?

Woody Thank you for the reply. Re your comment "You will need a DPC around the beams in the wall, in the same fashion as on a new wall". I can't quite get my head around that. I understand that in the new wall the beams will sit on a continuous DPC, but cant see how that will happen in the...

Hi I looking into the ways to support a concrete block and beam floor. So I have an extension which has new footings and below dpc block work installed. The plan is to do a block and beam floor from an existing house wall to the new wall/footings. Is it an acceptable practice to cut slots...

Thanks. Thought through the joist was the right way, but good to know the 1/3rd rule.