timber beams

Hi all, I recently purchased a home and found water coming through the ceiling in the upstairs bedroom. Turns out that the loft skylight seals perished and water had been seeping through, onto the joist, going down it and eventually to the ceiling on the floor below. The window will be replaced...

HI, I'm currently in the process of building sleeper walls in my garden with new treated sleepers. I started this a while back with 2400x200x100 sleepers and now just ordered 5 more of the same size to complete the project. The 5 that arrived all have different widths and depths. I.e one will...

Hi, I'm putting up a freestanding patio (5 x 2.6m) with insulated roof panels on top. I've got 6 post footings at the moment but wanted to eliminate the middle 2 posts and just have 4 posts. If I'm using treated pine what size beam would span the 5m? Or is that too far? For roof load, depth is...

Hi, I'm putting up a freestanding patio (5 x 2.6m) with insulated roof panels on top. I've got 6 post footings at the moment but wanted to eliminate the middle 2 posts and just have 4 posts. If I'm using treated pine what size beam would span the 5m? Or is that too far? For roof load, depth is...

Our chippy has chocked up the ends of the double beams (2 of c24; 170x47mm, bolted together) around our new stairwell with a short small softwood wedge (about 30mm wide) banged in between the middle of the beam pair and the next brick below in the supporting internal brick walk. He has now gone...

Our chippy has chocked up the ends of the double beams (2 of c24; 170x47mm, bolted together) around our new stairwell with a short small softwood wedge (about 30mm wide) banged in between the middle of the beam pair and the next brick below in the supporting internal brick walk. He has now gone...