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Hi All, We are putting a new toilet in the new loft room and need to extend the existing soil and vent pipe from outside the house through into the eves and up to a new vent terminal high on the roof. The problem is getting the pipe into the eves - there is a very tricky and tight bend to...

I've just installed a long length of John Guest Speedfit BPEX pipe only to find that it is completely blocked. I can't blow down it at all, another length similarly installed is OK. I've checked the length of pipe - approx 20m - which takes a circuitous route around the loft (through joists...

We are converting the loft in our house and have put a new floor in place and new rafters etc. Currently we have a large open space which needs dividing up with partition walls. Do the partition stud walls get errected before the ceiling is boarded - or do we first plasterboard the ceiling -...

We are nearing the end of a loft conversion and need to put some ventilation high up on the roof face (the eaves are already well ventilated). Has anyone had any experience of any of the dry-fix vented ridge systems such as the Klober Roll-Fix. Do they last? ..or is it better to simply...

Hi, We are in the middle of a loft conversion and are in the process of removing the existing purlins and fitting a new 'purlin wall' lower down the roof slope. (the purlins are out and the roof is currently supported by 24 temporary vertical supports, one on each rafter) To take account of...

We need to move an upstairs window by approx 600mm to make room for a new loft staircase. Currently there is a wooden lintel in place above the window which will need replacing. The loft extenstion has a large beam directly above the new window position with a loading of 8KN on the wall...

I have to fit timber joists into the webbing of steel UB joists. The span of the joists varies due to stair openings etc and the designer has specified different sized joists for the different spans. What type of material should I use to pack out the bottom of the smaller joists in the steel...

We are converting our loft and the plans show wooden beams of sizes such as 225x250 and 225x200 made up from multiple timbers (ie. 2@50mm + 2@75mm to make the 250 wide beam) bolted together. This is all OK, however, how do I attatch them to another timber joist or steel joist. They cant sit...

We are shortly starting a loft conversion and the plans show a number of Steel UB's (on 15mm steel plates instead of Padstones). The steels are supported on the top of the wall under the hipped roof (hipped on all 4 sides). Is it OK to support the steels on the specified steel plates on top...