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Thanks, that looks great! :)

Unfortunately the achitect was being a complete arse and got very aggressive on the phone when asked such questions, so we've severed ties. I'm not even sure he actually did any engineering calculations - they certainly were not submitted as part of the planning process.

Well this is the funny thing.... I thought it wasn't on the drawing at all, but it actually is.... i just found it in very small writing listed as "2 No. 203x102x23 UB" So this is fair enough, 2 Universal Beams... but it doesn't really explain how to hang the joists. Ah ha! Looking...

I assume you mean UBs? The bit I don't understand is how to connect the joists into this... perhaps Joist hangars, but they would need to hang directly on the UB. Still puzzled! :)

I'm creating an extension to my kitchen, this is all planning and building regs approved, but now we are coming to actually build it! The difficult part is the opening in the former external wall. We want to make this pillar-less and also not have a visible beam across the ceiling. Note...