purlins

Hi all, I am looking to internally insulate my bathroom. The bathroom sits above my kitchen under a pitched roof so the space is very limited (see pics). Construction is solid wall with lime plaster so I can chip off the old lime batten and insulate the walls. The problem I am having is the...

Hi all, I'm in the process of buying a property. The RICS surveyor flagged the roof as being problematic: the purlin towards the front of the house seems to have moved by a few cm and is not fully resting on the diagonal support along its length or on the metal support in the party wall. -...

Hello All - have been scratching head on this one. Need to get strut supports to sit on load bearing wall (where central props currently are just off-centre). To angle them so one end sits bird-beaked to purlin and other end sits on central load bearing wall seems too acute an angle to offer any...

Hi, I have recently purcahsed a house with the knowledge that I must address some of the short roof purlins as some of them are barely hangining onto the edge of the walls into which they slot - one by only just over an inch. Another has some rot in the end following a previous leak and needs...

Hi guys I'm in need of some advice please, I'm trying to do some calcs for a loft what I need to know is how to work out the self weight of purlins and individual joists, (looked every where) I would also like to know when adding a point load from a trimmer carrying the floor do I have to also...