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just trying to get round an emerging problem. In the middle of a build and have a situation where two lintels converge on a pier. One is a UB and the other over a garage door is a Catnic cavity lintel due to the fact that the long UB has had to be repositioned on the pier to square up with the...

Hi, I'm currently buiulding a two storey extension under building control. After the extension the extisting external side of the house will be an internal wall. Current plans are to create a wide opening on the ground floor through to the new extended kitchen supporting the 1st floor walls on...

Hi, I'm in the process of building a two storey extension where foundations have been layed for a previously planned single storey extension. The two storey extension requires a number of block piers to support some steel beams. Building specs show 1 Mtre sq pads to support each pier, trouble...

My architect has specified this UB to support a 64.4 Kn load over our Kitchen/Diner opening. Padstones are specified at 450x200x150 deep. In order to provide a min 150mm bearing, I am intending to build a 100mm block pier off the existing internal load bearing wall foundation. The existing...

Hi, I need to upgrade an existing 500mm strip foundation to support a new pier at one end that will support one end of a steel beam. The load at this point will be around 30Kn I am waiting for an architect to give me the detail but was wondering in principle how the foundation should look? I'm...