|
||
|
7th May 2021, 22:10 | #11 |
This is my second home
Rover 75 Saloon & Tourer Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Lincoln
Posts: 14,928
Thanks: 1,630
Thanked 3,032 Times in 2,181 Posts
|
yeeks there is more than 2 stages....
you have put a lot of work into the reply, thank you. macafee2 |
8th May 2021, 16:11 | #12 |
Avid contributor
rover 75 Join Date: May 2016
Location: Home
Posts: 203
Thanks: 6
Thanked 99 Times in 70 Posts
|
Just type it in here: https://www.omnicalculator.com/construction/roof-pitch
__________________
Illegitimi non carborundum |
9th May 2021, 06:56 | #13 |
This is my second home
Rover 75 Saloon & Tourer Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Lincoln
Posts: 14,928
Thanks: 1,630
Thanked 3,032 Times in 2,181 Posts
|
pcj-the, if I message you my email address could you email me all the pictures you have added to this thread?
I want to print all your advice and add the pictures to make a How To but the pictures wont copy and paste and if I save them and then copy and paste they are too small thanks macafee2 |
9th May 2021, 21:10 | #14 | |
This is my second home
R75 Saloon. Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: France/or Devon.
Posts: 14,003
Thanks: 3,851
Thanked 2,167 Times in 1,816 Posts
|
Quote:
10 minutes to fix in place leaving the rest of the day to play golf.--- |
|
9th May 2021, 21:38 | #15 | |
This is my second home
Rover 75 Saloon & Tourer Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Lincoln
Posts: 14,928
Thanks: 1,630
Thanked 3,032 Times in 2,181 Posts
|
Quote:
I had no idea you could buy them pre made which is silly as I have seen them on lorries. This was interesting https://freimans.com/timber-trusses-...hensive-guide/ Thanks COLVERT for the idea macafee2 Last edited by macafee2; 9th May 2021 at 21:42.. |
|
9th May 2021, 21:52 | #16 |
This is my second home
R75 Saloon. Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: France/or Devon.
Posts: 14,003
Thanks: 3,851
Thanked 2,167 Times in 1,816 Posts
|
You might think---cheap and cheerful---but, That's exactly what gets put in £500,000 pound houses too.---
Been there, dunnit and got the T shirt too.-- |
9th May 2021, 21:58 | #17 |
This is my second home
R75 Saloon. Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: France/or Devon.
Posts: 14,003
Thanks: 3,851
Thanked 2,167 Times in 1,816 Posts
|
Further to the above post.--A good chippy can fix a set to a large house in half a day.
By the end of the same day the house can have--'Felt and batten'--making it basically water tight. |
10th May 2021, 06:16 | #18 | |
This is my second home
Rover 75 Saloon & Tourer Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: Lincoln
Posts: 14,928
Thanks: 1,630
Thanked 3,032 Times in 2,181 Posts
|
Quote:
I will not buy a new mas build as I think the construction is poor quality, I dont like concrete/solid floors, plasterboard walls, cables plastered into walls without being in conduit, small gardens, small garages, lack of parking, cheap doors. As for semis and terraced......never again will I buy one and I would not even recommend one. Cannot say I know much about building but brick walls, suspended floors, solid doors, decent door frames, wide joists, floor boards are my kind of thing. The truss is a good example of the difference between what I like and what can often be found. I like the rafter as I feel is is a stronger and better construction. Wife and I are looking to buy a house, via the internet we have probably looked at over 3,000 houses, we have viewed less then 20 externally, less then 10 internally and put offers in on just 5 but other people got the properties. 2 were pretty special. The hunt continues macafee2 |
|
10th May 2021, 20:16 | #19 |
This is my second home
R75 Saloon. Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: France/or Devon.
Posts: 14,003
Thanks: 3,851
Thanked 2,167 Times in 1,816 Posts
|
In the picture below you'll see part of a 40 house site that I was site manager on.
All the houses had trussed rafters. All had electrical chases in the walls in which was fitted electrical conduit.---All the central heating pipework was also hidden.---Suspended floors make homes for vermin and spiders beneath them.----A concrete floor with the correct insulated bed stops all the heat loss you get with suspended floors.---No movement of any internal walls due to floors moving and creaking.---The depth of joists is the main factor not width as they take a vertical load. All the houses in the picture below were 3 or 4 bedroom detached houses. |
13th May 2021, 09:46 | #20 | |
Newbie
Rover 75 Tourer Join Date: May 2021
Location: Holywell
Posts: 8
Thanks: 0
Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post
|
Quote:
True, you can indeed buy trussed rafters (a pain in the eyeballs when you want to do much with the attic space and also a pain if you need to span anything non-standard.) but that wasn't what Mac was after for his job. For those who have to put up plain old fashioned rafters surely there is some neat, tried and trusted method known to the chippys of old out there? |
|
|
|