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Hey, yeah the frame is designed for that but the external measurements needed for the frame is 2067 x 926

Yeah had a few spare so thought might as well whack them all on and ensure the belt and braces method haha

Hi All, So I have a little issue The height of the frame of my porch is limited with how high I can go because of a an existing roof line. This leads to an issue with the door opening. wickes door frame states it need about 2067mm of space but I only have about 2030mm of space. My question is...

Cheers billy. Been reading up and that was my conclusion just wanted to double check. Cheers Mark

Hi All, Just wondering if I need to do a double top plate for my porch. If I can just do a single it would be better as allows me some more height I can place the trusses so they fall over studs, would that allow me to use just the one top plate? Cheers Mark

Hi Graham, Going up the side of the house it is. On the brick work it is treated Cheers Mark

Day 10 and 11 So over the last couple of days I have started to make some progress with the wood side of things. Day 10 Today involved getting the wall plate cut, levelled and bedded Whilst cutting the parts it started to rain so had to get the patio umbrella out front for a bit of...

I was actually looking at the l shaped brackets and I think I will be using them instead as they seem the less risky option of cracking bricks and I think they will be stronger as well as you have said. Cheers Mark

Hi Graham, This is all I am going up with for the brick work, the rest is now a timber frame that will be bolted to the wall or else I would have used such a system. Cheers Mark

Yes much the same here we have a field next door to us so I can see if I can qualify for the 2016 Olympic shot put team. I was going to bed down a timber on the bricks with some mortar first (the have anchor bolts holding it down to) like what you do with a wall plate, does that sound about...

Yeah I will be drilling into them very carefully nolegs. I would definitely swear if I crack one of them.

Day 9 This afternoon I wanted to get the brick work put to bed so I went and bought the dpc and laid that out and cut to size. I then bedded the dpc down on some mortar to create a level field for the second course of bricks and finished the slopped edge on the slab from the bricks...

Hey cammy, Tell me about it even for the smal amount done I got through the mortar. I saw that bricky mate thing. It don't look bad but when you lay the mix down you do the trawl thing to indent the mortar the create the suction and with that tool that does not happen. Don't no how much it...

Day 8 Well today was the day of getting the brick mortared down. Unfortunately the weather had a different idea so I only managed to get the first course on. Something I have discovered from today is that I do not like bricklaying. It is made to look so easy by the pro's haha. Any how due to...

Hey Cammy, Could this be used to seal the sides of the concrete base? http://www.wickes.co.uk/Wickes-Bitumen-Protective-Paint-For-Metal+Concrete-5L/p/241223 Cheers Mark

Hey Cammy, Thanks for that, I will look at getting some of that. Yeah I have looked at that site before. Will give it another go over for the DPC side of things. Cheers Mark

Hi rod, My thought was that the DPM could have water go between it and the slab and that could cause more issues with freezing. So I dug the soil out around the slab and filled with the pea shingle. Should I remove the shingle, and lap some DPM to what is left at the bottom and bring it up the...

Day 7 Although today was nice all day I had a few other task's to attend to before I could do anything with the porch. So this evening I was able to spend a few hours working on it. The first task was to dig out a bit of a trench all around the slab for space for the pea shingle to go around...

Hey Paul, Yeah, I did trim the DPM down the the base of the slab. as in my next updated (coming shortly) will show how I intend to put pea shingle around for drainage. Cheers Mark

Put it in a microwave for 5 seconds and it should sort the adhesive out