Hi, first post here. We bought a home just two weeks before the pandemic kicked off... about 2 months later we noticed the living room floor can...
Hi, Would anyone be able to point me to the relevant building code documents where it details the fixings required to join to joists together to...
I’m about to sister joists onto existing ones to level a suspended floor. BCO mentioned I could use screws instead of carriage bolts, but I...
Our Victorian property has a flat roof side extension for the kitchen. The kitchen ceiling is in part under the original property and in part...
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Hi All, once again turning to you for some advice. I am building a 3 x 3 m corner summer house, which has a diagonal of about 4m I need to stay...
Hi, I'm currently doing some work on the front garden to take the ground level below Dpc level and have removed paving slabs from the whole area....
Hi All I'm currently having the existing basement of my Edwardian semi-detached property made more 'user friendly' via the installation of a...
Hi, Starting to build a man cave in the garden tomorrow... Could you please help me verify joists of 47x220 C24 are ok for a span of 5.65m? As...
A cluster of 3 led lights, it's good because the bathroom gets very little natural light. But it's zonally conflicted in plan, being sited just...
Hi all, first time posting. I’m wanting to extend my bathroom into a walk in cupboard that the spare bedroom has. The wall I’ll be taking out is...
Hi. I can't see that this fits anywhere else, and I'm getting right fed up of my house, so I hope some of you might have advice! Ceiling in one...
It is proposed to create a storage room utilizing the roof void above an integral garage. The span is 9' (2740) Plan to use 6x2 (47x150) rough...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] I treated the conc. base with sikka rapid dpm, then put membrane or damp course under the stud soles. I'll cover the whole base...
Hi all. Im currently doing a load of work on the house and decided the loft would be a good place to store some unused materials and some tools....
The bedroom floor joists in our old cottage need strengthening, the floor is very bouncy and noisy. Currently there’s a hardboard floor down which...
Hi, All my floor joist bounce but after recently rearranging my bedroom the joist next the wall is now getting walked on more and is bouncing. I...
Hi all, so im doing my flat garage roof and need to join the joists over the steel beam and just trying to find out how much overlap you need, is...
Hi All, We're in the middle of renovating a house built around 1905. The kitchen for the house is in an extension at the back, this extension...
[ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] [ATTACH] Hi all, I’ve recently had some major renovation on our house with a number of walls removed...
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