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Surely he was equipped with a quill? Sorry, I couldn't resist! I have a great admiration for you and your wife - most inspiring. Good luck with the remainder of the build. Kind regards, Chris

Hi Nick, I have been quite frustrated given that, like you, I live so close to the Forest of Dean yet there are a virtually no convenient (open Saturdays), friendly and sensibly priced timber mills in the area. You may wish to try the following mills but I haven't used any of them...

Hi Barreller, I've been doing the very same task today to divide a steel framed barn into horse stalls - my wife is complaining that the horses will be cold without shelter in this harsh weather. I can't help directly because I used a Spit gun but FYI I was fixing 50mm timber to ~8mm steel...

I think it is time for some useful facts. I went to university at the turn of the millennium. My very kind and hardworking parents paid £2K per year in tuition fees and covered my rent. All my other costs were paid out of my student loan and a small income from a job working for a research...

:D Sadly not that simple - wish it was! I think that I have explained the situation poorly. The old joists run in two separate co-planar spans, where each span bears on an external wall and shares a bearing on an internal partition wall. The 38mm difference in level of the old joists is...

Ditto! TS have friendlier staff, serve you quicker and are on the whole cheaper. Only downside with TS is that their range isn't quite as broad and their website's search function is a bit poor. I had a recent incident with SF rejecting some vouchers I had received just six months earlier as...

Thank you Jacob. A wall plate (assume timber ?) is not possible as this is a solid 9" load bearing wall. Sadly, anything but a 'complete masonry unit' is contrary to my BCO's interpretation of current BRs. The degree to which the old floor is out of level across its 7.5m span doesn't actually...

Surely you have an old copy of the Daily Mail to roll into a cosh?

Dear Roger & hanser, Thank you for responding. My BCO has been very helpful and in this case I actually agree with his view that notching the relatively weak thermalite block is unacceptable due to the potential for internal voids/faults within the block being accentuated by the notch and...

Dear Members, I've been building an extension to my house over the past few months and I'm almost at joist level (intermediate floor). Unfortunately, the joists on the existing building are out of level by 38mm over approx 7.5m. Furthermore, building regulations now dictate that new joists...

Hi Fenners, Here is a link to the TRADA span tables that I recently used: http://www.e-lindsey.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/85BC86BA-F27B-43CA-8080-F878C5CAC9AC/0/TradaTables.pdf Be wary of the difference between C16 and C24 grade timber as there are separate tables for each. HTH, C

Hi MF, I've got the larger ALKO electro-hydraulic splitter shown here: http://www.alkogarden.co.uk/product/al-ko-khs-5200l-wood-splitter.aspx which was a present from my father. We run our wood burning stove 24-7 from October to March so go through an enormous amount of logs. I periodically...

I'm guessing that 1 and 5 are true, so two of the statements are possibly true.

If it was going in my house and assuming that the mantle is >50mm thick then I'd do as follows: 1. Drill four 10mm diameter blind holes, 25mm deep, in the underside of the mantle, two per brick support along the plane perpendicular to that of the mantle. 2. Resin fix 8mm diameter threaded...

Reads like you may have the chain the wrong way around?

Hi Roger, Would you mind sending me your supplier's contact details via PM? Thanks, Chris

Thank you for sharing the benefit of your experience with us Carlow. I am indeed using two separate 40mm connections for the shower and basin but if my interpretation of Part H is correct then I believe that they can be joined together provided that 50mm ID pipework is used from their junction...

Thank you all for replying. So, given that I don't care that grey fittings are slightly more expensive and that Doug, Jake and Roy believe that grey can be used in this application then I shall use predominantly grey fittings. I assume that the site work that Chris (Chippy1970) described using...

Lets play 'spot the self-builder' again.... I am led to believe that brown PVC soil/drainage pipe has chemical stabilizers to prevent it being attacked by acid in the soil/earth and that grey/black soil pipe has UV stabilizers to protect it from sunlight. Therefore, I believe that brown should...

I do go there a bit, mostly on Sundays when I can't be bothered to drive to Gloucester/Hereford but their range and pricing will never match Screwfix.