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Hi All. I'm putting a bigger bath in a small first-floor bathroom in a Victorian house and want to make sure I'm safely within the floor's load-bearing capability. The bath (60kg, plus water, plus person) would sit on chipboard and span four or five joists. This room is 2.4m x 2m, but is one...

Thanks very much for this, Vinn—it answers a lot of q's I've had. I'll use new sill beams, then, and keep them out of contact with the knee walls with dpc material. Needless to say I'll be using suitably treated timber, and I'll be adding a natural blanket insulation to let the old structure...

Fair point! Here's a pic of the floor after I'd started taking it up. The main joists are running left to right (obviously!) but the bits I'm interested in are the beams that these are sitting on, to the left of the shot (there are others out of shot). These are the beams that had been slowly...

I've had to take up a 4m x 5m suspended floor in a Victorian building because of wet rot damage and would appreciate any advice on how to reinstate it. A lack of air vents (I'm rectifying this btw) meant that capillary bound moisture in the two intermediate wall piers (2' wide, 3' high, built...

That'll be a straightforward "no" to venting to the inside, then! :-) Ta. "Has the survey found any dampness?" Hard to say—it's been unoccupied and unheated over winter, so elevated moisture in internal plaster in some places might just be down to that - the surveyor recommended heating and...

That'll be a straightforward "no" to venting to the inside, then! :-) Ta. "Has the survey found any dampness?" Hard to say—it's been unoccupied and unheated over winter, so elevated moisture in internal plaster in some places might just be down to that - the surveyor recommended heating and...

Evening. I'm hoping someone's had experience of this problem. The building survey for a property I'm looking at buying recommends that I install more vents to ventilate the underfloor space. Difficulty is, the wall that needs them is a good 600mm thick and made of solid blocks of a hard stone...

cheers - just what I needed to know :)

Hi. I've had to replace a 2m cable on a common-or-garden table lamp with a longer length (5m) so it reaches a socket. The original cable as sold was 0.75mm2, but all I could find in the sheds was 0.5mm2, which was sold as suitable for lamps. I've replaced the entire 0.75mm2 cable all the way...

No, there wasn't any obvious problem with moisture, and I put the epoxy dpm on because I had no faith that the DIY work done laying the floor in the 70s was any good - there was a plastic sheet visible along most edges, but in other places it was twisted or absent. Carpet's one thing, but solid...

I've just had a wood floor put in on concrete, and needed to use a two part epoxy resin dpm to seal the floor and stop moisture affecting the wood. Left a section near the door to tile later with machine made 6" quarries, and now need advice on what kind of adhesive to use to stick them to the...

I have a 5 year old Servis quartz M9130 which has stopped turning at all with a full load, and which turns in only one direction when there's anything more than a very light load in. I've had the back off, and there's nothing wrong with the belt. With a light load, the motor's turning the drum...