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Just to give some closure to the thread. I sent the engineer the architects drawings, drew his attention to the discrepancy in the weight allowance. He has confirmed he is happy with the original allowance.

Cheers. I'll have to question the engineer again, it seems I'm constantly second guessing this engineer. He seems to have phoned in aspects of the design.

I'm building a rear extension that will produce a lower ground living space and a terrace, my back garden is about 1.8m below the street level. After a couple of nudges the architect drew the inverted roof build up I requested. The engineer has detailed the roof as 50x175 C24 timbers at 400m...

Our houses are at the same level but for some reason my back garden is 1.7m lower. I'm doing everything I can on the project, I would have underpinned the house if I had time on my side but working full time doesn't help. I did one underpin section and a 1m3 concrete pad to enable the...

I've embarked on a project to create a lower ground in my house, we've had a company in to underpin the existing house to lower the existing 2m space under the house. We're also building a 3m extension, we have full planning and design from a structural engineer but the architect drew the...

I generally use L-boxx stuff and its taken some serious punishment over the years. I generally use Bosch tools too, just always liked them.

I've searched the internet quite a bit and have a few questions about the detail of the roof. I've also looked at Steve Roofer on youtube, which is an excellent resource. So from my research I'm going to make up the deck with 18mm OSB, VCL, 120mm PIR insulation, 9mm OSB, wateproof layer. I'm...

I have services to go in the floor, mainly gas pipe and heating pipes, and work to do in the existing part of the house to expose the true level of the existing floor. I'll be removing the back of the house and installing steels so I'll want both floors to match perfectly.

I'm back! Having searched and read the forum the last couple of days, I have a couple of questions with regards the floor for my extension. 1 : The DPM at the corners, do I fold it neatly or can I cut it and tape it in some way to make it nice and neat? Will it matter if its folded up? 2 ...

@Steve - The only issue I can see is that you've mentioned the extension is going to be full width. Does that mean you have space at the side of your property that is your land to relocate the services as you've suggested? I've just embarked on something similar at my house and have moved the...

Inspection chamber was finished this afternoon. Here is a picture. My first inspection chamber so might not be perfect but hopefully it'll do. I laid the lateral in plastic as it's much cheaper and easier. I have the original inspection chamber still operational but that'll be coming out...

All lateral pipes are mine, my understanding was the inspection chamber had to be clay pipe and cast concrete/brick chamber. After that I'll be running my own stuff in plastic. My concern with cutting the top half is that the salt glaze pipe is 600mm long, the way my walls have worked out means...

One last question, I hope. The salt glaze is currently situated in a fashion that will mean a joint will be in the inspection chamber. Would it be advisable to renew the pipe and work with the new stuff? That would allow me get rocker pipes in place a lot easier too. A couple of people I've...

I'm going to hire a pipe cutter for the new pipe cuts but the older salt glaze stuff I'm concerned any small hard to see fractures could end up in it shattering and me chasing the pipe into the next properties garden! I think a couple of new grinder blades and a slow and steady approach for the...

I'm considering doing this at the weekend weather permitting. The socketed channels, do they allow the rocker pipes to be seated nicely to ensure the invert isnt misaligned? The plain ends of the channel just butt up to each other then? So I'll have 2 x straight and 1 x oblique double junction...

I haven't noticed too much running through it to be honest, I spent my entire weekend last week digging around it and didn't really hear/see too much going through it.

Following on from my salt glazed pipe thread this one should be interesting. My negotiation with the water company didn't go very well. They are happy with the size of the inspection chamber being 600 x 450 as opposed to the monster specified needlessly on my design drawings. My problem is they...

JD and Wavin produce 600mm plastic chambers that are suitable for adoptable sewers to give a wider opening. I'm open to using a suitable plastic base and concrete sections if required. The installation of the base will be an order of magnitude easier then trying to form my own chamber whilst...

1.1m to invert. The designer has screwed up I think. I've emailed the water company to discuss the situation. Hoping to get them to agree to a change, even if I have to pay extra to get it amended. The building regs specify that plastic is good enough. I understand I need one that will comply...

Glad you mentioned that. The build over was only agreed to after I accepted using brick or concrete. That could have been because the designer who submitted the drawings specced a 1200 x 750 monster for some reason. The existing IC is around 650 x 450. I was going to seek advice about doing...