wall plates

Hello everyone, I’m building a small ground floor extension with a 150mm cavity and a flat roof. The problem I’m having is fixing the wall plate in a straight run because my 150mm cavity wall is tieing in to a 100mm cavity wall. Will it be ok to just step the wall plate to the side on top of the...

I am removing the old corrugated roof from some sheds. It's a very low pitch pent roof (just under 10deg) made of single skin blockwork with a couple of courses of brick to make the pitch. It has a single joist centrally, the length is about 2.3m. Then I'm planning to use a solid roof, poss 18mm...

Hi All, Just doing the wall plates on a new build garage extension 6.5m x 6.5m, the brickwork is all done Now its ready for the wall plates at the front & rear, the walls are level and 4x2 timber brings the wall up to the correct height for the joists, just wondered if the wall plates need to...

The proposed method is to use clear span secondary joists to support two layers of 12.5mm plasterboard with batts between the joists. I am trying to optimise joist spacing and depth. Joists to be support on hangers off new wall-plate under the existing sandtex-overpainted high-relief coving...