I am about to rip out old wooden joists that are in a stone cottage. They done the job well and I am sure when they were done back in the day that...
I have a rotten floor joist, I’ve cut out the wood and treated it, I need to install a sister joist, I’ve read all about it and I’m ready to get...
We have moved in to a house built in 1989. All the floors seem to be bouncy all over the house. The floor joists are 2" by 8" 600mm apart. The...
What’s the best thing to do with this joist? It’s only supported by 20mm of the frame below. Is this safe? House was built in the 60s, floor seems...
I have an already converted loft but they have blocked off a quarter of the roof for in the eves for storage. I'm wanting to knock this out and...
We’ve started doing some work on our stairway, where we need to replace the 2x6 with 2 2x7s because we are making the clearance bigger. We’ve...
Hi All, so i’m looking to take down what I thought was a simple stud partition. i’ve started cutting into the ceiling to take a look (see...
Noone has answered my other question yet on here, but I'll ask a simpler one whilst that one gets answers! :D. If 2 2x2s are sistered together,...
Hi guys, so we are swapping out the current joist on our stairway for a bigger one 2x7 instead of 2x6 as we are making the head clearance more....
I'm about to level some floor joists but I'm just deciding whether to add noggins before or after sistering new 4x2s onto them. I'm edging towards...
I'm currently renovating one of the rooms on the first floor of my house and I've come across some damp in the joists. The weird thing is it's...
I need to run central heating pipe horizontally under the floorboards of an upper floor. I need to go through only one 75mm wide beam, but I'm...
Hello! I would like to use my attic for storage, but I thunk I need to add some support to do so. Current attic - The total span of the attic...
I want to enlarge our loft hatch. It currently sits between two roof beams, but I'd like to cut one to increase the size of the opening. I'm a...
Hi there! I’m building a 4.8x3.6m shed (16x12) For the base, Im looking to have 3 skids 100x100 on top of concrete blocks x6 per row/3 rows. Each...
I just discovered this kind of thing is available in the US. Is there anything similar in the UK that building control would be happy with?...
Hi, I'm planning on building a stud wall parallel to a solid wall to install sound insulation. I'd appreciate any advice on the proposed plan....
Hi there's a gap between the floor and the skirting/ wall in my room that's about half way across and it does feel uneven to me. Ive had lots of...
Hi all, so we finished the wet room but sadly didn’t get time to do it the stud wall way to hide pipes and had to do it the dot and dab way and...
Hi, In the new year I have to replace the entire floor in the front parlour of my Victorian Terraced house. The current joists that are there are...
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