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For anyone that may come here later, I settled on blockwork, and use the metal rail wall tie system to tie the blocks into the existing rough blockwork.

Hi All, Looking for some general advice on the best way to rebuild a 2 step landing. This is the current state of the area and newel: The reason for rebuilding is because the floor level has dropped approx 5cm, since I replaced the ventilated wooden floors with concrete. I wanted to...

Yes I see what you mean, the engineer just said there needed to be x amount of overlap for the steelwork into the brickwork, which is what was done. He didn't specify that I need to rebuild for further structural support.

No, what I am putting in doesn't need to be structural, It might just need to be strong enough for fixing one end of the fixed Aluclad pane

You are exactly right. The opening is that big on the left, because there was an existing window with that edge on the left.

Hi All, I have made a large opening at the rear of my property to put in a glazed large sliding door. In the image below the yellow box is an approximate size that the sliding door will occupy. I need to build up the area in the red box. The sliding door will be aluclad, and the makeup of...

Hi All, I'm in the middle of replacing a suspended ventilated floor with poured insulation and a polished concrete floor. The finished floor level will also be dropped by ~100mm. As I am dropping the floor level, I will have to remove the bottom step and lower it slightly. Obviously this isn't...