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Hi, thanks for this. As part of the belt and braces, we went over on the rafters. Spec for the 28 degree pitch was C16 5x2 (47x125) at 600 centres with a span of 2.25m, we ended up using C24 6x2 (150x47), and 565 centres. I will probably tie across the tops of the rafters with some plate and...

Hi, Im currently building a small(ish) garden building with pitched roof and am looking for advice or reassurance on how to tie rafters at the top. The roof has been designed what I understand to be built "traditionally" with single ridge steel and rafters. The beam has a bearer board bolted...

Thanks for the advice so far, and while I agree cladding the outside and forming another barrier would be the sure fire way of stopping penetrating damp, I'm a bit stuck with the outer style to get it past SWMBO. The render matches that which we had on various parts of the house extension and...

Hi, She who must be obeyed finally gave permission to have a home bar/pub built in the garden, and rather than go the usual convert a shed route, I went with block and the idea that render would match some parts of the house. Decided on a narrow cavity wall (50mm cavity) Anyway, I went away...

As an experienced DIY'er my advice, and I know you wont want to hear it, is to get somebody in who is an expert. There are a multitude of variables to consider. Room sizes and therefor radiator sizes, distances of runs, number of radiators etc. What sort of flow rate you have and what sort of...

Rather than search for something which is going to be difficult to find and no doubt require a unique or certainly more substantial than normal fitting at either end, why not look at modern track that could be ceiling or wall mounted. This would allow for the 3.6m span and curtain stacking at...

To be fair, as part of the extension work we made the decision to replumb the whole house. Having now lived with it for two winters and a full summer and the only thing I would do different is have put underfloor into the rest of the tiled area (main hall and utility) on their own separate...

Honest customer point of view on UFH.... As part of a large extension, we now have both Underfloor and traditional radiator systems in our house. In my opinion the type of heating will depend very much on the uses for rooms, and also their layout. As one example we have UFH in the kitchen...

In my experience if you want the room heating, and not just warm towels, then go for a white towel radiator rather than chrome finish. We have both in our home and while the crome ones look nice, they do not kick out anywhere near as much heat into the rooms as the white ones. The heat output...

We wanted a camera with 2 way audio to use as a baby monitor as the range wasn't good enough on the usual baby monitor cameras we had. We went with a Foscam C1. Its cheap enough at around £50, and will work over your current network. We use a spare iPad or phone etc and an app called OWLR to...

I bought a really useful set of "super wrenches" many years ago. It was at one of those stands you see at places like the home building and renovation show, or various car shows etc. At the time they weren't that expensive and the demonstration looked good. I was fully prepared for them to...

As I said several posts ago, in the absence of what constitutes "competent" for a diyer, the courts would almost certainly use the wording which applies to the vast majority of people undertaking gasworks, i.e. tradesmen. I'd imagine this would be the case if the HSE prosecuted a diyer for...

Ignorance is not a defence.

By showing their accreditation to the relevant bodies. by referencing previous work that has since been signed off or test drive by othersending over the years. They would also likely have insurance, which although in itself would not be any defence, would all go toward demonstrating the...

Manslaughter may be a possibility. From CPS: Gross Negligence Manslaughter This is where the death is a result of a grossly negligent (though otherwise lawful) act or omission on the part of the defendant. So regardless of the views of some about "should", "must" and what constitutes law, I'd...

They can't. If a DIYer did their own gas work and it led to death or serious injury, then in court the prosecution would ask that very same question. They would quote the only reference to what constitutes a competent person by citing paragraph 3 as I posted (regardless of the fact it relates...

Actually, from that same link: 3.-(3)Without prejudice to the generality of paragraphs (1) and (2) above and subject to paragraph (4) below, no employer shall allow any of his employees to carry out any work in relation to a gas fitting or service pipework and no self-employed person shall...

What's the problem? It may be something a user has had and resolved previously.

Yep, went through it with my installer for Evohome, but running a business myself I dont expect an installer to stick to a quote if I start moving the goalposts - thats not cricket. We actually enjoyed working together to solve the issue and if it took drilling holes and pulling cables to areas...

Some of the folk in Currys have "PC World" written on their shirts, but I wouldn't go to them for my IT problems ;) In all seriousness though the connected specialist that did our install spent some considerable time talking to Honeywell regarding overcoming the range issues. We ended up...