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Just for clarification, I am retaining the current opening width its the height that I need to reduce.

What are the possible difficulties/problems? Cheers

Hi, I am looking to replace a window with bifold doors. I want to use a fairly standard frame size of 2390 x 2090 so that the doors do not have to be manufacured specifically. To accieve this i would need to add two rows of horizontal bricks at the top or cut and cement the bricks...

Cheers for the Advice guys, I diddnt join the forum not to take it. I have replaced the LRB with a 45* tee and included a rodding point. I thought an IC would have been slightly overkill, the rodding eye is less than half a meter from the junction you could get your arm down there if you...

The original stack will become a stub for kitchen waste with the new soil stack outside. I originally thought about using a 45* but this option seemed a bit easier to work out the bend angles. do you think using an LRB and 90* ish Tee could cause potentilly cause blockages ?

I have finally got round to working on this (better weather). Trenches dug and pipework mocked up, just need to underfill then reconnect the pipes, cement up the hole in the wall and backfill. Cheers for the help

And now for the other end which is worse than I was expecting. The cinder block at this end is also cracked. I think I will pour concrete into this one since it's going to be difficult to support the wall and get the whole block out. I did a few other repairs to damaged cinder blocks...

:D In this case I prefer the over engineered solution. They are also bolted to the foundations. The beam alone is 5 meters long and probably weighs half a tonne. I wasn't taking any chances. A few bolts would have been enough but there were 4 holes in the prop's so thought I may aswell use them.

Ok so I ave got around to sorting the worst side out. I have cemented in concrete padstones to replace the damaged cinder block and a cut down concrete paving slab in place of the dodgy split brick. Now for the Cement to set then i will remove the props. Will probably give it a a week or...

P.S. Cinder block Sucks

Further investigation has uncovered another problem. The cinder block that the dodgy brick is sat on has begun to fracture due to the uneven load. This block it toothed into the side wall. What can i do about this 1) replace the whole block, 2) reinforce it with concrete and rebar, 3)...

Thanks for the replies. My original intent was just to make the beam housing more sturdy because it seemed a bit flimsy. Never expected to find this however but i am glad that i know about it and can sort it out. Cheers.

:shock: , Any advice apart from don't sneeze lol. I thought about supporting the RSJ with acro props and replacing the bricks at either end one at a time with engineering brick. at least then it will be sat on something flat and level. There are bricks above the RSJ which form the internal...

The property i am refurbishing has a long steel RSJ running above two large windows in the living room. I am slightly concerned that the RSJ does not seem to be particularly well supported. See images. The first image shows the RSJ. The second and third show the supports at either end ...

If I were to get someone in to do the underground foul drainage work ballpark how much should I expect to pay? From where the stack would be on the outside wall to the manhole is between 6.2 and 6.5 meters. I have been looking into laying the foul drainage myself but I think it may be better...

Cheers Nige F, noseall. This sounds like the proper way to do it. With respect to the toilet and waste on the second floor, I read in a bit of Part H of the building regs that you need lintelling for sewage pipework that runs through an external wall. However i think that is referring to...

I recently purchased a 3bed detached house requiring modernisation. I am doing as much of the work as I can myself but will get Traders in where necessary. The soil stack runs internally straight down from the corner of the bathroom, Straight through the kitchen to the sewage connection...