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garyo, just to add that the binders you were thinking of fitting do many tasks: - prevent joist twisting / bending - tie the rafters and stop them pushing out your inner leaf - reduce the effective span. Only the last of these is obviated by selecting larger joists. I have...

Problems you might face w/o sarking felt: - water ingress via cracked tiles, or just by blow through / capiliary action during rain. What little of this which might currently be occuring is being evaporated by airflow through the loft. Sealing the rafter space will prevent this drying and...

yeah, but that ain't for retro-fit. How do you suggest i install that to the base of the rafters? I'm assuming here there is a good reason for a retrofit product like the £1.50 trays I mentioned above. I can see hoe the roll stuff is great for a new roof: just staple it to the outside of the...

Regulations say I must insulate over the wallplate and yet maintain a 50mm roof perimeter ventilation gap. But pushing loft insulations over the wallplate will likely obstruct the gap between roof and wallplate. Anyone who has suffered loft condensation will understand why this is an issue...

I believe you are mistaking them for software developers / programmers. As you probably know, Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web and gave it to the world for zero. Linus Torvalds gave the world Linux for free. Got a virus / operating system problem with your computer, or need a...

Thanks woody. That would be perfect. Any chance of a link to something suitable?

Another rude person. Your first suggestion was that I support the ceiling off an already over-stressed purlin/rafters. FYI purlins are sized to reduce the effective length of rafters. They are not sized to hold up binders/ceilings. If your suggestion represents sanity, I'm happy with crazy.

Politeness isn't your forte is it? I'll take it that these costs do indeed refer to what I believe them to refer to. It's even worse for domestic stuff. For instance, a replacement window in one's own gaff requires that palms be greased down at my BC to the tune of £158. Just check it...

Have been working up a hunger for a little DIY and thought I'd take a look at my local BCOs 'menu' (table of fees to you guv). In the side dishes ("TABLE E, ALL OTHER NON DOMESTIC WORK AND ALTERATIONS") I spotted the tasty morcel of "Window Replacement", which listed in its ingredients "1-4...

At ~45 degs maybe 1 inch up each side of the binder? ... which would of course be a better job than the original builder made (just the one nail on the old weedy 4"x2" binders) and have the happy consequence of excluding simpson's metal work from the job. Even so, I'm so indoctrinated from...

Gambrel dormers are one way these can go. Not exactly your situation, but if you imagine your parapet where the red brick is ... was that your idea? Anything like it locally?

Use the power of ebay : http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=steel+beam

He's saying his house does not have a flat rear, so it's probably L shaped or T shaped or U shaped or W shaped etc. Doesn't make much odds which.

There's no need to be rude. As I said, I'm drawing up plans to put in beefed up binders. I'm asking the forum about ways to affix these binders to the existing joists they will be supporting.

This intrigues me. I'm drawing up plans to upgrade a binder myself. I take it this banding will be used as a "sling" under the joists. If so, would you care to give an example of th etype of banding that might be suitable?

Well, just for the forum's information, the call to Simpson's revealed little other than a supposedly new "engineered" angle iron that doesn't actually exist. Instead I was pointed towards the MTS12 - basically a twist affair that requires the six nails mentioned above. To be frank I'm...

Thanks for the reply. I have considered hanging the joists from the rafters, but my purlins are already overloaded by modern standards. So much so that I resisted the urge to accept the 43p FiT for solar PV for fear that the lot might end up in the room below (imho when the snow falls heavy...

I'm drawing up plans to retrofit beefed up binders. As the ceilings are already in place and pretty tight to the joists, I'm thinking I might use builders metal banding to sling the joists to the new binders. Here's a link of the sort of thing I'm talking about...

anyone reckon I've posted this in the wrong section?

i'm wondering whether anyone can suggest a speedy / jiffy hanger that can easily be inserted between plasterboard and joists in an existing roof. Alternatively could I use this ...