knock through

Hi, A confusing one. For our knock-thru and main steel at rear of house, our SE has specified insitu padstone as follows through onto the new extension wall (steel actually only 100mm dimension now, not 250mm): The builder has produced this with a day to go before steel installed! we...

We are currently getting quotes to have our house rewired but at some point, we'd like to knock through between the kitchen and dining room to make it more open plan. First question - should we do the knock through before the rewire or will it not make much difference? Secondly - in order to...

We're looking to open up a cupboard space in the kitchen. Made up for 4 brick walls, which used to house the original heating system. Concrete pad sitting on top of the brickwork below ceiling level. (Just above the vent for reference) Chimney sits on the concrete and continues through rest...

We have a disused space in our kitchen where the original oil boiler used to be situated. Its essentially a cupboard space made up of 4 brickwork walls, 2 of those a shared with the 2 internal load bearing walls of the property. Above is a concrete pad, below ceiling level with the remaining...

Hi everyone, I'm in the process of starting out with an extension to our property that will involve knocking through the rear wall, with the intent on creating a large open kitchen/diner/living area. Architect is on with the plans now, and we'll be getting an SE in to calculate steel...

My wife and I are about to complete on our first home this week. We are looking to completely redecorate the whole house and one of the things we have been looking at doing is widening the space between the two rooms picture below. I wasn't able to get much information out of the seller...

I'm nocking though into what was an old outside toilet, the two are separated by a solid brick wall. Sent this info off to an SE to get the steel specified and they came back with 178 x 102 mm UB. It's cranked, so a bit more complicated than the standard. Do you think they missed that it was a...

Hi, This is my first post, for a while I have enjoyed reading through many posts and learning :). I have a 3 bedroom end terrace (ground floor and first floor with truss roof), i have had an extension built to the rear of the house via permitted development (external size 3mx7m with vaulted...

Good afternoon, This is my first post on DIYnot :) I live in a bungalow and am about to knock through from my old kitchen (which is becoming a bedroom) into the cloakroom toilet. I will then make a stud wall in the old kitchen to make the cloakroom big enough to fit a shower cubicle. I have...

Hi, Following my last post where I got some really helpful answers I wanted rely on you guys again! We currently have an upstairs layout as shown in the image. We are looking to knock down the wall between the WC and the bathroom to increase the size of the bathroom but wanted to check whether...

Hi all, I'm currently removing some patio doors to shorten the opening height to allow for double doors and a wall plate for a flat roof which will run across the sagging soldiers. I'm going to add a lintel as there's no external one at present (1930's semi). I just wanted to know if it's OK to...