Sentences with phrase «new joists»

If you're knocking down walls, moving or adding windows, or putting in new joists, check with your local building control office about whether you need Building Regulation approval.

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The project is a typically finicky downtown venture: the early - 20th - century structure occupies almost the entire property it sits on, so the materials and heavy equipment have to be shoehorned in via a narrow alleyway or, in the case of massive new roof joists and pipes, through the roof.

(clockwise from top left) the ground floor was excavated and rigid insulation placed around the perimeter to cut thermal bridging here; airtightness taping around joist ends; new roof rafters insulated with Icynene spray foam insulation; airtightness detailing to the roof, with Pro Clima Intello membrane under internal battening.

1 Oscar Baldry getting down to work in the old newsagent's shop; 2 laying Kingspan and Ecotherm insulation in the ground floor of the old shop; 3 first floor metal web joist detailing, with membrane behind the joists for airtightness; 4 ground floor walls feature 50 mm Xtratherm internal insulation; 5 this is followed inside by an Intello vapour control barrier and a further 25 mm Xtratherm; 6 the new timber frame first - floor twin - stud walls and roof rafters are of a fully breathable construction and full - filled with Warmcel cellulose insulation; 7 holes in the timber - frame where the Warmcel insulation was pumped in; 8 a pro clima Intello membrane on the inside of the first - floor walls and roof; 9 and finally, 50 mm Thermafleece (sheep wool) lined service cavity to the interior.

But there is also a new 2x4 stud wall inside the masonry going right down to the basement floor, which is probably adding a good bit of support to those joists.

They developed new ways to seal around joists and to install air barriers.

Green materials: Earthborn clay paints, re-used floor boards from ground floor to create new attic floor, roof timbers, joists and some bricks re-used in house or garden, some second hand furniture and fittings, attempted to minimise building waste.

Below that, between the new 150 mm joists — Crown Rafter Roll 32 glass mineral wool, Intello membrane taped with Tescon No 1 and Uni Tape, 25 mm battened service void (unfilled) and plasterboard.

I was at a new build recently with the furnaces installed horizontally up against the floor joists.

The house was built in 1926 and was framed with 2x4s only, so we had to reframe all the roof joists and ceiling joists because they were all sagging, we reframed every interior wall and put new headers in for all of the windows.

Project Description In a style and location appropriate to the existing house, add a 16 - by -25-foot room on a new crawlspace foundation with wood joist floor framing, wood siding on exterior walls, and fiberglass shingle roof.

One option we had was to have our toilet rough - in moved 4 inches further from the wall, which would mean cutting and patching our new hardwoods floors, cutting through a joist (not recommended) to account for the new placement of the pipe, and moving an air duct.

With attic space above a dark corner, it's easy to add a new light fixture, says Daryl Berg, a journeyman electrician in Longview, Washington: «Just cut the hole for the fixture and run the wires through the ceiling joists to a new circuit.»

We removed the warehouse's old timber joists in construction and gave them new life to finish the open kitchen.

This project made use of existing raw wood joists and exposed brickwork, bringing new life but holding onto character.

Reclaimed joists removed from the warehouse were given a new life and reinstalled as the bespoke kitchen doors, shelves and island.

This warehouse conversion uses joists, reclaimed from the original building and given new life as the bespoke kitchen doors and shelves.