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Hello, The way our roof is constructed, means the 2 x4 ceiling joists dont sit on the wall plate, but part way up the rafters, traditional roof consisting of a single purlin to each slope & 2 x 4 rafters & ceiling joists.. My wife wants to start a small business online and needs storage space...

Hello , Whats the best primer to use on a upvc door so that I can paint it? Thanks

Hello I've been hitting of some old plaster from my 100 year old fireplace as I wanted to expose the brick. But it seems the brick isn't great - not nice enough to expose anyway so will be plastering it. But I managed to take a larger chunk out one of the bricks. Is it possible to replace the...

Hello, We want to install a log burner, so I've been cracking on with removing the plaster up to the Bathstone lintel. The chimney appears to have been bricked up twice. To fully open do I just remove the infils below the lintel? Thanks

Hello. So neighbour and I decided to get a concrete post fence put up I left the quote finding to them. They used their builder. We were happy with the quote of £900 total £450 each. The majority of the panels were fine so only needed to replace 3 panels. The fence consists of 10 concrete...

Hello. We had our roof refelted & battened etc last September. It came with a 10 year gaurantee. I was in the garden yesterday and noticed one of the clay double Romans has snapped clean in half. The problem is it's right above our conservatory and i have no idea how to access it. The tile is...

Hello. Property is a 1900 terrace Noticed a horrible smell coming from the kitchen sink. Investigated it and the problem is the drain in which the waste water from the kitchen sink and the washing machine go into is blocked i think? There is stagnant water which doesn't ever empty. Only...

Hello. I am after some advice on how to strengthen our loft floor. Now I must stress our intentions are not to use this as a bedroom but as an extra habitable room. We were going to get a proper loft conversion but it just doesn't seem possible due to head height. This has been confirmed by a...

Hello, After a bit of advice I've been thinking about getting the loft converted. But a few things are concerning me! Currently the ceiling joists don't sit on the wallplate. They are just nailed to the rafters.. they are 2x4 timbers, with a supporting wall mid span. Span being 6.5 meters...

I noticed in a relatives loft a purlin support method I've never seen before. The property is Victorian era. The purlins sit on brick corbels each end. But instead of the usual vertical struts (as the purlin sits verticle.) supporting the purlin along its span there are 2 x 4" braces that sit...

Hi, My first floor Joists are 7 x 2" and are spaced every 280mm what is the maximum span of these as some of the joists mat be spanning 5.2 meteres without support. The reason I ask.. It appears a section of solid wall has been removed and a stud wall put up in its place with a double doorway...

Hello I'm trying to tidy up my bathroom a bit. One thing I really could do with replacing is the surround for my corner bath. It's all faded & cracked. But I have no idea where to get one? Not sure what brand the bath is either. Anyone have any advice? Thanks

Hello Literally just had my roof felt & battens replaced. When they started removing tiles they realised the tiles were stretched causing the leaks in the beginning. I live in a old terraced property with clay double Roman tiles. To over come the stretched gauging which both neighbours also have...

Hello, I want to build a pond fairly soon. I plan on it being 3m long 2m wide 0.75m depth. I also want to do this myself as I don't have the funds to pay someone for things like this.. Now I've never done anything like this so looking for advice. I thought about using concrete blocks 2 skin...

Hello again, We are getting our roof re felted/battened etc in the near future along with 3 rafters. But I found some rot in the purlin which I told the roofer about but didn't say anything at the time , just said he'd would be in touch once they have got through some of there work load. They...

Hello again. Im after hopefully some really sound advice as I just dont know what to do... So basically one of my purlins has some rot but doesnt appear major - the purlin is 7 inches x 3 inches in size and is unsupported in the middle due to the load bearing wall being in the middle of the...

Hi, I noticed my 7x3" purlin has some old rot in it, this is from a roof leak in the past which also caused some rot to a rafter. I (sistered) the rafter. But didn't notice the purlin. The rot is on top side of purlin where the rafter sits. I scraped out rot back to what I believe to be hard...

Hi, Was in my mums loft earlier & noticed 4 rafters next to each don't quite reach the ridge board. I thought maybe they had spread - But the birdsmouth over purlin was tight fitting & no other signs of spread. Could they have been cut too short originally? Should she be worried? I'm sure I...

Hello, I live in a 100+ year old home with the same age roof rafters. In that that time some of the rafters have twisted in the natural drying process and the rafter cuts that meet the ridge board are twisted,so the full face of the rafter cut is not sitting completely flush on ridge board. Is...

Hi, Neighbor found out today that they may have a leak in the mains water pipe supplying there's & ours house. Water board and fairly sure its under there property & not ours. But seeing as its shared are we responsible for any costs incurred from repair/replacement? The water board bloke kept...