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Can a multiport manifold and UFH system be commissioned one room (possibly 2 loops) at a time? Then commission another loop or two as each downstairs room is ready for it.

Thank you to all that have replied, I shall continue with my sketchup modelling then, it's actually quite beneficial to help me understand a few things.

Paid an architect a substantial amount of money to do the designs for two large extensions on my house. They're both two-storey extensions and there are multiple posts and UBs and UCs of a wide range of sizes and lengths, all connected together that form the basis of the extensions. It will be a...

Sorry, to confirm, the corbelling is not useable as the projection? And I need boards (or tiles/slate) to proceed beyond that too?

Renovating an old outbuilding. Is it usual/best practice/requirement to have cement boards on top of a corbelled verge? if so should they also overhang by the usual ~50mm too? Can/should I bed the tiles onto the corbelling and do away with the cement boards? as presumably the corbelling's...

Bought a load of timber offline to build a roof on my workshop project. It was delivered by a local supplier. I’d like to know if what was delivered would be considered acceptable. It is all under size by Class 2 specs I found online. Some of it would appear to have been sat outside for some...

Yes, hence the huge RSJ.

The wall is actually concrete blocks laid on their side, I rebuilt it, and there is another new RSJ spanning the two openings. The roof I'm rebuilding was King Trusses and purlins, one of the king trusses is as shown below, from the calcs for the other RSJ in red below. This image is from the...

Hi All See image below which shows my idealised sketchup model of my project. I'm rebuilding some old outbuildings. I've done one, it's the one shown with the roofing tiled at the back of the image and I'm about to start the roof of the other intersecting building in the foreground. That other...

Sheathing?

That’s my plan, kind of, a course off the inner and outer skins, then wall plate on new top side inner skin

What mix did you use? Asking for a friend…

Thanks for the reply. Good to know I explained my dilemma and that there are others that understand it! I suppose in your business there are many variables that affect your decision, but the idea of adding more height to the gable to suit the wall plate position was an option I had considered...

So I'm making progress with my block piers, further to this thread: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/pier-design-and-tie-in-to-support-10-2m-steel-ridge-beam-for-roof.624083/#post-5661101 For those that read that one, I have used hollow blocks (infilled with concrete) laid in pairs staggered...

Cost me £700 ! Was an independent guy somewhere in Leicester. He wouldn't explain how I was supposed to tie the footings in to the existing! Said it wasn’t his job and I should speak to my builder

The wall has not been checked, as I say it's just a solid imperial 9" brick Flemish Bond wall, one of them has two large, arched windows in the middle-ish, where my pier will be. The trusses, purlins and rafters will all be removed and burned on my living room fire :) not sure what you mean...

Alas, I don't have a tractor :( but I often look at them! I am not a farmer. Access in with any machine would be a PITA. My neighbour's posh top-spec telehandler (he's is a 'poor & hard-up' farmer...) will just manage to lift the ridge beam in from the side at full reach and at the limit of the...

So this can only be done by chopping out bricks in the existing wall to allow me to tooth in with blocks or bricks every so often (?) or every other course, could you be more specific? do I just chop out halfway through the wall?

My original idea was to use steels to support the ridge too, which is what the SE specced up, but I'd now prefer to build the piers from block/brick. So I'd like/I'm planning to use 440mm x 215 x 215 hollow blocks laid in alternating pairs (so a 440 x 440 pier, similar to yours) then change to...

I have an old farm building that I want to re-roof with a load bearing steel ridge beam. Currently the roof comprises a few beefy king post trusses, approx. 8x5 (?) purlins and 4x2 rafters, all have had it. The building is around 5.5m wide and 10.2m long. I intend to support new 6x2 rafters off...