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In an industry which is always pushing for innovation, I'm surprised so much goes right during building jobs!

Hi Ron, Thanks for the message. I'm not certain I can answer all your questions without going back to visit the building. I'm actually going to be in the area around Wednesday/Thursday so might take a call in. I don't think that there are any problems with the flashing - I visited the site a...

Hi everyone, I've been asked to take a look at a problem in an existing building for a friend of mine but I'm not sure of any immediate solutions and thought this would be a good place to ask. The building is copper-clad with the seams running vertically on the building. I'm not certain who...

Hi everyone, I'm currently working on an attic conversion and I'm replacing the timber joists with T beams. The detail I'm worried about is the join between two hips and a ridge beam. Assuming all roof pitches are 30', I'm finding the join is going to be difficult for a welder/bespoke piece...

I was interested in the sustainability of deconstructing a typical (Irish!) house and reconstructing another house from its pieces. A typical house here consists of double leaf solid concrete block outer walls with solid block single leaf inner walls. I know that the roof (slates/tiles) are...

Hey all, I am wondering whether it is possible to transport a block wall from an old house and use it in a new building - by con-sawing until it is loose, strapping it for support and moving it on to a lorry. I know there are precast concrete walls but, for cost reasons, the reuse of an older...

The noodle analogy is interesting. Thinking on a similar scale, it reminds me of a regular drillhead where I imagine the strength would not all originate from the small, shared circular cross section in the middle. Here is an example I found of a rotating brick column (square cross section)...

Hello all, I am wondering whether anybody has come across a twisted column before and what difficulties they ran into. The easiest way to describe this would be to imagine the cross section at the base as a rectangle with major axis on W-E and a similar cross section at the top with the major...