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Thanks for the useful response. No idea on age of backup battery (at least 3 years), but it holds enough power to keep the alarm running and sounding alarms while I've been working on it. Haven't inspected for damaged cables but the alarm panel is outside of the meter cupboard, but will double...

Looks to me like he's looking at the remaining panel of the rear wall to check its capacity to resist wind loads. The removal of this wall, which is currently acting as a shear wall/buttress, won't be providing this once the opening is made. He's therefore adding the post more akin to a windpost...

Have had some trouble with our alarm at home, seemingly triggered by having our electricity meter swapped for a smart meter (not the cause) but presumably the period of power outage knacked something up. No idea when the alarm was installed by the previous owners, it was an ADT alarm but has...

Well I've just come out as a gay 30 year old man. I've always been gay but the small minded people in this world had stopped me from being myself and, until now, I thought I was somehow inferior. I couldn't be happier now, but maybe because it's 'fashionable', life is on the up. I've met a...

And if the anti-fascist league put up a poster saying No shaved heads No KKK hoods No anti-islamist ranting No marrying cousins (where would the royals be?!) No transit vans some would feel agrieved, and from your posts its sounds like you would feel victimised. :lol: Just...

I'll break from my affirmation not to reply. Not to try to have the last word, as I know that will never be the case, but to speak up against your (and other's, I certainly won't single you out) views and to correct your innacuracies and sweeping generalisations. The longer we argue about this...

I'm disappointed by the racist and small minded views I've recieved from here, but I guess that that is what our country is coming to, and that this forum is apparently good ground for BNP activists to come recruiting. I hope that at least one person has been compelled to do the survey and...

Yes, your point? Presumably you mean third world? No, they are cultural codes that are practised by people in all countries, and it is a problem here. You didn't say it's not right, so does that mean you think it is right?! This is the whole point, which you have massively missed...

Please keep your head buried in the sand then. If we pretend that girls as young as 9 are not ringing helplines asking how to avaoid a forced marriage to a man they have never met, then we can sleep easy and say it's not our problem. Great! Not sure who the 'others' you refer to are - these...

For clarity, they are looking to criminalise the act of being involved in forcing somebody into a marriage. http://www.iengage.org.uk/component/content/article/1-news/1364-home-affairs-select-committee-urges-government-to-criminalise-forced-marriage or...

If you think they go voluntarily then you are mis-guided. Have you heard of honour killings? If you knew your brother or father would kill you if you did not follow the family's wishes, would you make a stand against them? Often suicide is an escape route that they take, as they see no other...

Please don't dismiss this as spam. I'm a structural engineer who frequently reads this forum and I like to contribute when I can. This is a cause quite close to my heart which really is worth five minutes of your time. A friend of mine runs a charity that supports victims of forced...

Well, is it really just one-way spanning or is it supported on four edges? I know nothing about glass but using concrete or steel there would be ways of analysing it to allow for 'odd' shapes, using yield lines for example. Not sure how you would model glass though as it wouldn't behave...

You're worrying unnecesarily - the weight of the RSJ is nothing compared to what it could be carrying from the floor joists upstairs. Thermalite isn't the best for load-bearing but with a decent padstone underneath it should be fine.

Eurocodes and 40% reduction in steel weight?! Tell me why the fabricators aren't all pushing for EC3 then, but instead are sticking to BS5950? There are some small advantages to EC3 when looking at combinations of wind and gravity loads, but they are more in line of 5%. They are also only...

I think the technicality is wrong though. According to the steel designer's manual (2003) the minimum cross c/c for a 102 wide UB is 50mm based on M16 bolts. This leaves an edge distance of (102-50)/2=26mm which is more than adequate for that bolt size. The drawing gives 60mm c/c which...

Go on then I'll bite, I'm struggling to see any major problems with this, so what's the problem with it?

Maybe you're thinking of scaling common commercial building practice down to residential. It's the norm to position columns in a steel framed building on steel shims, then fill the gap beneath the baseplate with a free flowing grout. If it's a big baseplate you also need vent holes drilled in...

Some description might help - is it an internal or external wall, what's it made of, what's the layout, what's above it, where are you, what ground are you on, have you had any work done recently, how long has it been there... On reflection, you haven't given much to go on really have you...

A couple of years ago my landlord had a new electric immersion heater cylinder fitted in the loft after the old one caused some internal rain. Recently (well few months) when running a hot water tap anywhere in the house or even washing machine, after a while (presumably when the tank starts to...