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Hi guys/gals, I’ve recently had my building regs drawings through from my architect for a loft conversion where the truss roof is coming down and new roof put up, it states “restraint strapping - ceiling joists and rafters to be strapped to walls and gable walls, straps built into cavity across...

Hi When installing the metal restraint straps to a gable wall at 2m centres, how is the 2m spacing defined? Do you need to strap a certain distance from the start and finish of the run? So If your rafter length is 3400mm how many straps would you install? a) one in the middle... of the run...

Hi I am nearly at first floor height for my extension and I have made a hole to check the existing floor level. The bottom of the existing floor joists sit level to the bottom of the hole I made and the top of the joists level to the purple line in the picture. Regs say: Restraint straps must...

Hi So, I have to run a 44mm waste pipe through my joists in my bathroom - not ideal but such is life. My thoughts are to hole and sister joist each in turn. My question is how to do this? Reading around, i see my options as follows: 1) Buy 2x7 and glue + strap each side of the joist for a...