structure

I’ve attached a drawing to show the existing, temporary and final diagrams to help show the question. The structural engineer has designed our loft with 2 floor steels and a ridge steel. The installation of the first floor steel (beam A) is simple, as nothing needs to be removed to install it...

Hi all, I am planning to build a garden room which will be 6.6 meters wide and 5 meters long/deep. I have managed to find joists that are 6 meters long which will give me the overhang on the front and back. The roof will then have firring strips on top, 18mm OSB board and then EPDM rubber on...

Hi all, Looking for some help/advice re: if I can move some beams in a single skim brick garage pitched roofup to give more height in room. The room is 4x2.5m and is in good quality. As it's a fairly small room i dont want a flat root (even though it passes building regs re: height after...

Afternoon guys, I am opening up an old chimney breast that was blocked up years ago. The reason is twofold - ventilation (it wasnt vented!) And decoration. The new opening will be 400mm wide x 600mm high which is smaller than the original so I'm only knocking out 'infill bricks' and not any of...

Looking at renovating my garage in the near future, however I've no idea how serious the cracking in some of the concrete roof beams are. It's an old concrete sectional garage (no idea how old), and some of the beams have crumbled to the point which the rods are exposed and rusting. I've not...

Hi! I'm looking to convert part of our existing outbuilding into a chicken coop. I was initially thinking of simply adding a partition wall but I think that would be a waste of space. Instead I want to build in a chicken coop into the building, essentially a large box raised off the floor with...

Hello, Straight to the point! I've just bought my first property and I've stripped the loft back and uncovered what I think is inadequately supported purlins in the center (where they meet) where the previous owner has cut away structure to open up the space. https://imgur.com/a/A5BAEMR I...

I have just installed the following two beams for my loft conversion. 5.1m 203x203x46kg on 100x150x500mm pad stones. Unfortunately these are sticking through the roof slope. I have been told by an architect these can be cut at 45 degrees halfway up the beam without compromising the structural...

I have a semi detached house and my neighbour has a single story rear extension which comes right up to its boundary (next to our fence line). This isn't the issue. We also have a single storey extension but it is about a meter and a half away from my neighbour even though it was built before...