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Going to be an awfully thick roof structure when completed, just been looking at this detail for a warm roof. Looks to add around 5" on top of the joists at the thin end of the firing & 8.5" at the Lead flashing to original house end. Thats 16" of roof structure at maximum. Boy thats a lot...

Nobodys betting Trousers :) OK Friday has been and gone, Bricky & mate arrived before 8am today expecting all the timber for the roof to be here at 8am. Reality kicked in and it arrived at 10:30am :( They cut a slot in the house wall for the main beam. This was supposed to be tight up...

Not quite an exact replacement but pop into your local car/motorbike engine refurbisher and see what they have in their scrap bin. They always replace all the valve springs on a refurb so have loads knocking about. I always had good luck with odd tension springs around that size from them and...

OK so the rain held off and it was yet again a hot sunny day. The plastic boxing over the old extension came off, what a strange affair that was, underneath it was a conventional gutter and felting edge. Then a quick rip off on the front corner to see what was there reveled what looks like a...

Another fine day and lots done by the bricky. He says it will be tidied and siliconed down the join between the new and old brickwork in this busy corner. Dont take notice of the old brickwork, it was a pigs ear when done before I bought the house and I have been threatening to have it...

Wow! Roger thats really something else isnt it. Bet your pleased to be able to sit down and take a well earned rest. Off now to delete my pathetic little thread...and get my coat..

Todays progress for your perusal. New window to go in there when it arrives. Dont ever order a upvc window by phone, gave the sizes and they made it different, by the time I got the written confirmation it was too late to adjust the size so now its a case of adjust the brickwork to...

The drainage run is following the new walls of the building so L shaped for stormwater. So from far end its Trapped gully-110mm pipe-sweep tee picks up the french drain- 90 deg bend-tee for 2 x Aco sections via a trap-more 110mm pipe and into manhole (combined service) The toilet pipework is a...

Thanks for the detailed replies chaps, one thing the bco wont be able to do is pressure test the drains, they have around 8mtr of french drain connected to them and its all since been backfilled. He did see the drains before the fill though. As the other other concerns, I am going to have to...

Yes Roger, I had no clue that the BCO's just did as they pleased. I did think that paying all that money to the local Council got me some sort of guarantee that at least what got inspected by the BCO was likely to be up to standard and that they would insist on inspections at the points of the...

You are going to have to elaborate a bit more, trick question? :wink: Does it look like the mortar is a very strong mix to you? As to the vertical dpc slot, I have absolutely no idea if our local bco would expect one, but as he's not due to visit next until wall plate level he will be too...

Well the bricky and labourer were busy today, they got on quite well. Lots of temporary cutting and shuffling of rainwater downpipes and hoppers to clear them out of the brickies way and be ready for the rain we are due soon. The upstairs toilet has become a casualty as it seems the...

There is no dpc left above the concrete so nothing to fold over on the 2 old house walls. I see exactly what Roger is getting at now. Had I been doing it I (now I know) would have raised the membrain up the walls 6" and battoned them there so they didnt fall back in the concrete while laying and...

Thanks Roger, I will see what he says...

Roger, thanks for the comments, Im no builder so feedback is always helpful. I have no idea of the guage of the membrane, its Visqueen from Builder center looking at the packaging and my vernier says its around .3 of a mm. The guy has a brand new roll so there was more than enough to do the job...

Sorted the mains water supply, cut back the copper to where it enters the extension blockwork and used plastic in a big loop up out of the footings and back down again to join to the old copper as it enters the original kitchen below dpc. Once the building work is finished I can cut and blank...

Well done! Lucky it was a 20+ yr old cylinder. I think a modern one would have parted company at the neck long before your efforts would have got the flange nut off. Pretty thin these days I believe due to copper prices.

Work went quicker this afternoon so the builder broke out the existing drainage china pipes and finished off the concrete blockwork over where the original sewer pipes crossed the footings. I now have an unusable upstairs loo as the pipework goes to an open end in the base of the new extension...

Well the problem with no trap on the Aco drains has resolved itself, he had set aside a trap to put in line before the Aco, so sorted. This morning was spent breaking up reinforced concrete between my downstairs loo and the manhole to gain access for a new soil stack and drains for the old...

Monday has been and gone so has the builder. He arrived to "do the drains" today. They trenched out around the outside of the footing blocks and laid drainage to couple up to the existing rainwater downpipe from the old extension flat roof, connected my french drain run into the pipework and ran...