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PS thanks for the replies. I'll try to get the firings checked whilst I'm at it.

Hi again, Talking of plans, the original plan was to have the beam across the middle of the roof in steel and resting on the brickwork, and the beam across the top of the sliding window (the big gap) also in steel. These got changed for wooden beams without asking us, and now the beam supporting...

Hi, The rsj has another two storeys on top, the column was recommended by an engineer. Yes, i realise that the methods might be a bit different in Belgium, but I thought that flat roofs are probably pretty similar everywhere. You know, beams, firrings, etc... made out of the same stuff, same...

Hi, sorry about forgetting the pics :-/ Voila, les magnifik photos! Any comment appreciated, esp. from a noggin expert. Looking at the photos I think I got the division of widths wrong - the vertical steel pole is in the middle of the span at 3.5m, so the wooden beam in the middle isn't far...

Hi, I'm a Brit but living abroad (Belgium), and currently having a fairly major refit done on a house. Our Belgian builder has put up a new extension with a timber frame flat roof (about 5m deep by 7m wide). The frame has a large beam running front to back, off-centre, with about 4.5m on on side...

Hello all, Thanks a lot for the replies. Thanks also to Xerxes - that chart has given me an idea of what sort of questions to ask! Without wanting to get too philosophical, sometimes it is harder to know the right question than to find an answer to the question you already have :-) BTW, (at...

Thanks very much for the information. As I'm still very new at all this, can I ask for some further clarification? > Any of these drills should make a very good SDS drill. The greater speed range of the > Metabo will make it more versatile for drilling a variety of materials. What sort...

Hello, I am looking to buy a drill. I would like to have one, good quality drill that does as many jobs as possible (not a lot of space in the garage). After having tried to drill into concrete with a normal hammer drill, I thought I'd get an SDS+ drill :-) To be able to do other jobs, I'd...