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The structural engineer has designed our loft with 2 floor steels and a ridge steel. The installation of the first floor steel (beam A) is simple, as nothing needs to be removed to install it...
We have to excavate a hole in a stone wall which is approx 60cm thick so we can put a soil pipe through it.
Having removed plasterboard we see a pre-existing hole in the wall which is
1.4 m wide by 23 cm to 67 cm in height.
It's a deep hole that goes through most of the wall but not all the way...
Hi guys i need to prop the rafters on a small (4m x 4m) single story outbuilding in order to enlarge the door opening and subsequently place a larger lintel.
can anyone advise me how to best get round the issue of safely supporting the sloped rafters when he top of the prop is obviously flat...