supporting brick wall

Our house is brick and block, built in 1981. On carrying out what was supposed to be simple upstairs bathroom renovations, I have uncovered some concerns in an internal breeze block wall. Essentially, it appears the wall is supported only by the timber sole plate sitting on 20mm chipboard...

Hi, so I am assessing if my exterior garage/outbuilding can support the weight of a wall mounted weight plate storage rack (See picture two for the rack), there would be two racks both weighing at 80KG~ when plates are fully loaded at two spread-out locations as marked in red, photo 1. The wall...

Hi. So we're having the hall renovated and I've forgotten until a week before, due to the stress of the cost spiralling, to tell the Electrican that the Plasterer is coming the same day! Worst still, that we wanted to move the understairs door to the left slightly, to create shelves inside to...