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HI thanks for your help again , to clarify Footplate is what I know to be the baseplate of the stud framework, in this case it is metal channel C section partition fixed to the floor with the C section facing up to form a U shape. An ideal channel I feel for water that may enter anywhere...

SO below is a picture as requested, overall gradient is from left to right, and top to bottom so basically all towards the bottom right corner. The french drain around the building is functional however I fear maybe the source of the water that arrives in our lower hallway. The drainage at the...

Awesome , thanks for the advice, i will get some bits up first thing tomorrow. We had a major development today with the surveyor who has contacted the builder and they have finally decided that the drainage is inadequate, (albeit they claim that it was all made to the specs that were...

I also think that water is working its way through the building via the footplate channel used in the partition wall but again, hard to prove and how do I go about fixing or getting them to fix it ! thanks again

Hi guys and gals, we moved in to a refurbished pub (Ground floor, 1 of 2, 3 others above) in Jan 2015 and in November 2015 had a bloom of clean fresh water in the middle of the flat. Which is pretty much the middle of the building. Now the floor is suspended over the cellar and it is not...

Thats awesome thanks mate ! :)

Hi guys, I removed my cast soil pipe and I have a nice old clay pipe in the floor downstairs ready to take some new plastic pipes. I can come under then suspended floor at a suitable slope to where I want the new pipe to go up the wall. I have a branch in mind for the downstairs toilet which...

its hard to work out really as they are not really columns at all, kind of just wrap arounds and they are barely even tied in to the rest ot the brickwork. The joists run width ways so are tied in to the outside and adjoining walls. The wall plate for the roof sits along the top of the front...

So my house project is coming on nicely and the kitchen now has a beam across the width of it allowing us to knock through in to the extension however, I have two brick pillars now in the way that are on the picture left and right of the house and go from foundations up to roof height. They...

awesome cheers guys, the guy next door was very helpful and had left full tile edges and let me chip off the mortar to reveal the battens. Was pretty simple after that having faffed around for quite a while with the rafters! My missus used this crazy thing called maths to work out all the...

Hi guys and girls, I have had a front lean to extension built and I am about to put up the wall plate etc and get some roof structure up. I am trying to tie in to next doors roof so is there a rule of thumb to observe when matching across to make sure the tiles are the same height etc and...

Awesome , cheers for that mate, ill get measuring and pop down to the local window guys near me to see what they say. Thanks

Ok so not really a standardised plug and play type thing on the market for this application?? I was really hoping someone would give me a nice Clicky link but it looks like im back to having a think and doing some doodles on my pad. So would I have to knock up a frame for it all to bolt too...

HI guys and gals, I have a standard square opening to my garage, 2400 ish square. It was panelled with horrible wood and plastic so that has gone and now we need a solution as it is open. Brick construction and concrete slab floor so ideally want a bolt in one piece kit ideally. Surely...

any ideas guys ??

Hi mate, have a look not just locally at your independent companies but outside the box a bit. I work at a government funded laboratory as a pipe welders mate (was a chief engineer in the navy, then offshore oil and gas and a property developer, then an electrician!! ) and a rival company takes...

I was thinking two short steel sections width ways over the main beam? The front wall is only single skin internal with that tile cladding so only single skin beam req. Cheers

Yes mate up to just below the windows with those horrible tiles removed.

Hi , they go left to right mate, cheers

Would anyone know what type of steel etc I would need to support the columns at either side of my house when I put in the red marked one for my extension? I am removing the front wall to make a single storey extension and dont want the columns in the house getting in the way. On the ground...