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Sorry for the late reply! That's just what I thought I would need, thank you! Apparently they were quite common in the type of house we're in (a Cornish Unit) but it absolutely is not finished to a high standard! Ha! It's the usual ex-council house from the 50s - wonky door frames, sloping...

Hi, We are replacing our copper soil stack with PVC. It runs internally, in a straight line, from bathroom floor down to kitchen floor where it enters a flanged clay pipe. The copper waste pipe is 90mm in diameter and the hole in the clay pipe that it sits in looks to be the same (a very small...

Hi, We have an awkward window/bathroom/budget situation. The window has strange angles to it due to the "ashlar" walls and nothing being straight. We have a corner bath with overhead shower going in (to appease all the varying requests) under the window and we will be tiling the window wall...

Yeah, it is awkward. id have loved the extra roof space to make it feel bigger than it is. How do you stop water ingress and damp. Is it the lead flashing between old and new roofs that does that?

Sorry, it's not mine. It's a photo from Google. ours has some obvious defining features so I'd rather use already publicly available photos. I know that makes things difficult, I apologise. It is a Cornish unit house, fully bricked up. I've attached a photo from Google of the exact construction...

Hi! We are looking at putting an enclosed porch at the front of our house and I'm trying to understand the roofing options and process. I'd love an apex roof but wondering if a flat roof might be less interfering as we have a mansard roof. I've seen the below image. Our 1st floor walls are at a...

I forgot to mention two things: 1. There will be built in style wardrobes on the wall to the right so not too worried about looks for that. 2. The door frame is built right up to the wall. The plaster is crumbling in the corners the whole way up. We do not have the space to plasterboard over...

Hi all, I had lots of great advice on the joist situation of our chimney breast removal. That's been dealt with and we are now trying to work out the best way to repair the bedroom wall. It has raggedy brick sections and some cement render sections as well as a filled in old door which will have...

Thanks all for your advice. My uncle came round last weekend and cut all the wires, put the ledger board up and new joist parts and reconnected the electrics. That part is now done, floor boarded over but the ground floor is yet to go :rolleyes:

Because I paid a professional to investigate it. I wouldn't know what to look for. I have 3 builders look. 2 said it was load baring, 1 said it wasn't. The SE came along and said it was. I had to trust that.

Hi, We had a structural engineer visit and tell us the wall we wanted removed was load baring. It was a 3m wall between kitchen and dining room, front to back, parallel with joists. He said it was supporting the timber frame wall above (2.2m in length, directly above) and a joist sitting...

We have a new obstacle... all the joists have electrical cables running through them :rolleyes:

Apologies for the delay - kids! I'll upload photos of the joists (I've labelled them with numbers to stop any confusion). We're now suspecting there ARE 4 joists affected as the ones to the right are fine but the downstairs breast extends wider than upstairs and crosses another 2 joists...

No worries - thanks for coming back so quick! This is the first floor, yes. The stack is gone from the loft/roof. The stack was trimmed all round. I'll try and get a photo later (I don't fancy falling from the ladder while there's no one else home!) Would we need extra joists to cover the hole...

This is an ex-council house. We found a section of the breast that had no brick, just brick sized mortar. We has had a couple of rows where each brick was in a different orientation - vertical, horizontal, on its side. It's been a journey and I never want to do it again. :LOL:

Just waiting for google to update so I can add photos of the situation.

Hi! The downstairs breast is an extra brick thick and the joists are just resting on that. I've actually been using the wrong images and the joists are actually 450mm centers only two rest on the breast below. The gap between end of joist and wall is actually 340mm, not 250mm. A third is running...

Ah ha! No, I completely understand! Thank you! I'll have a think and do a bit more research.

Thanks for your reply. Could you expand on the bending stress? The chimney below will be removed (I don't think I mentioned that) so the joists will be floating in mid air. The dividing wall isn't a party wall - just the wall between two of our bedrooms.