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Cheers Noseall, Is it correct how the brace just kinda sits in the corner then? I have cross braced this side now, is the cross section okay like that as one side overlaps the other? Can i just pack the gap between the brace and rafter?

Hi All I am currently installing my roof trusses and I just wanted to check my diagonal bracing as I'm not sure i've got it correct. Am I missing something here as the diagonal brace doesn't appear to sit nice at the wall plate? Only done one side at the minute. I think my drawings show...

I looked into these a little as I was thinking of a garden room. They appear to be a good solution although they have weight limits used on the number of ground screws you install; affected by the size of the building you are planning. This is assuming you mean the garden screws that you can...

Small but doable. When I planned my extension the en-suite was going to be long and narrow at 1m x 3.4m (changed plan though). It would have to be a shower room at that size. As others suggested, loft is best bet but if it's not affordable then not a lot you can do at the minute. You could...

As ash_scotland says, I think you'd need to move the boiler and remove that cupboard. Make the back bit of the bathroom into a bedroom and create the hallway to the bedroom and bathroom past Bed1 (cutting into bed1 a bit). This will all depend on sizes and other but basically, you are limited by...

Nothing wrong with the trays I suppose, it's cheaper and easier to use the DPC method, not to mention you can pickup a roll of DPC from pretty much any building merchant.

I would say so yes. I'm guessing it's not a mega span and just spans a standard doorway? You don't need structural calcs on a standard concrete lintel. I'd prop the lintel with an acrow prop and then rebuild the block work underneath, pack it as tight as you can to the lintel using some slate...

With the trays you are talking about, they are just placed under the bricks on the outer leaf and have enough "flap" to catch moisture dripping down the outer wall or from the wall ties. This is where the moisture is going to come from, not the internal wall; why would you have moisture dripping...

Have you got a an SDS drill? Just buy a paddle attachment and mix with that. https://www.screwfix.com/p/erbauer-mixer-paddle-140-x-600mm/6041h Adapter to use in SDS https://www.screwfix.com/p/erbauer-paddle-mixer-adaptor/5418v

It's not compulsory to use manufactured plastic cavity trays over doors and windows, you can use DPC stepped from inner to outer with weep vents as you mentioned.

o_O Not sign the build off until it's put right?

The truss people have measured inside the loft and outside on extension so from their response I gather they have taken the existing trusses into consideration. Did you measure your wall plate height once the trusses were onsite? Offered one up to the roof first? Did the truss manufacturer...

:LOL: yeah i know, it's on the list!

Yeah the ceilings are going to be the same height, I am more concerned with making sure the roof is level externally - old to new.

Sorry, what do you mean?

Hi I wonder if someone could offer their experience. This pictured tile is what is currently on the existing house. It is 410mm x 310mm in size. It is evidently a Marley tile but is it a modern or something else? I guess these are the original tiles from 1975 when the house built. What tile...

Hi I am nearly ready to install my wall plate for the roof trusses which have been ordered. The truss manufacturer has been out and measured so hopefully everything is going to be correct there. I asked the following question to the truss manufacturer (okay :rolleyes: might be a stupid...

One the best things i bought whilst doing mine! I've used it loads! I didn't use Blakes but bought other profiles, absolute must in my opinion, plus when you've finished they'll still have a good second hand value. I use my mixer for every mix, i find it too much like hard work to mix...

That is going to be the simplest way. In some houses (mine included) the soil pipe is internal so the drain is inside the kitchen & bathroom, boxed in. I don't particularity like it but it doesn't cause an issue other than interior cosmetics. Seems very wet around your drain, do you have a leak?