Recent content by Dereekoo

Or go for a 45 degree mitre joint

Just out of interest what is "concrete sand", ballast has a proportion of fines in it which I understand to be sand. Cheers

You can always post 2 pics of the spreadsheet one showing its layout and the other one with the formula shown in the cells, means perps have to build the spreadsheet as opposed to just picking it up and running wit it?.

Hats off to any of you chaps who have done a bit of selfbuild and especially king Andy who's a king

I assume the window is coming out at the same time.?

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Vaulted roof to bedrooms, inner wall pier yet to come up to support end of beam??

How do you know what it was designed for, whats the span, size, grade and spacing of the rafters

Havenai said recent post has been deleted so my comment does not now make any sense

That purlin would be way undersized using todays regs, even with just taking the standard snow load of 0.75kn/m2 and assuming the purlin supports 1m of roof each side of it i.e. 2m2 , so loading per metre run is 1.5kn, taking c24 timber the actual bending moment in the beam would be 40% over...

And don't wait 7years and 8 months to do so

Forget my comments I thought you were trying to obtain a flush surface for fixing new plasterboards but it appears that you have structural issues hence your sistering of existing rafters , although having sistering rafters that are effectively cut in the middle (where the maximum bending...

Why not just have hangers (metal or wood) at the top hanging down from the original rafters supporting the new ones

You paid peanuts and got monkies?

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