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Hi everyone, I'm going to be doing a loft conversion soon. I'm in very early stages, chatted with a Structural Engineer briefly. He's had a quick look at my plans and made a suggestion about the structure and costs. I'm now beginning to finalise my drawings which I'm going to send to him again...

Hi Everyone! I'd posted about this last year, and now it's the time to start planning it properly. What are your ideas on how you'd tackle this? This is what I want to do: I want a livable space and I want to remove the purlins. I want to fit a few windows, preferably dormers. The stair case...

Hi everyone! I need a contactor/relay but I'm really stuck! This is my situation: I have a solar inverter, mains, and my office. I want both the solar and mains to power the office (but ofcourse not at the same time). I want the contactor to do the following: If the solar inverter is...

Hi Everyone! I'm building my own block building in the back garden. Everything is going well up to now - Well apart from my OSB roof getting wet today in the rain. I've covered it over with tarpaulin now. My query is; I made the building from Quinn Lite B5 blocks (single leaf) and I want it to...

Hello everyone! I'm planning to redo the floor of the loft so that I get the first step of a loft conversion done. I've worked out using Trada tables that I need 7" x 2" joists but the issue is, when I try to put them into place on top of the wall plate, the top corner of the joist knocks...