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It is good to see that you are back producing videos again. Most informative as always. It would be useful if you could do a video on the design of a traditional cut rafter roof and also the design of a hipped roof?

Brilliant as usual Robin

Great videos. If this was a terrace house how would you fix the flitch beams to the side walls ?

Another Excellent Video Existing Joist sizes are the main concern, older houses had small joists New builds are all min 9 x 2 as a rule of thumb due to room sizing Your videos should be used in technical colleges as a learning aid

Hi Robin. Another really clear demonstration in what's needed in engineering a ceiling in to floor space. Would you happen to have any videos demonstrating how to do a similar installation of a 'steel' beam or 'flitch beam, in to an existing floor below allowing that space below to be opened up. As an example; changing the existing timber bearers that are supported on piers at 1800 cts, for steel 'UB' or 'flitch' Beam, that could span 4.0m, supported upon brick piers either side. By the way, is there a method that would enable that UB beam , or a 'flitch beam', to be inserted up between the floor joists to create more head room without creating too much drama, as it is a lived in space with a kitchen above. Or would it simply be best to excavate more earth below to create that needed head space. Thanks Robin. Of course almost anything is possible with enough money and time splashed at it but this question is about trying to do something as cheaply as possible.

Great model. Is that all done on sketchup? You must have put in a few hours to be so proficient with it! Dropping the new floor joists down and in-between the existing ceiling joist is a nice idea but typically the ceiling joist level void is filled with all manner of services (cabling, wiring and pipework) that would prevent this.

cool. Tell us, what have you put between the flitch and internal load bearing wall that you use to support it. A padstone of some kind

Would love to see a video on how to do a conversion of a steel trussed roof built in the 1950's, with no load bearing internal walls upstairs. Without taking the roof off.

Do you need a party wall agreement to fit this fitch beam for a semi-detached house? Does using a high strength stell hanger rather than a padstone make a difference? Do you need one to put shelving into that wall.

Hi, do you have any videos on mansard lofts.thank you

isn't it possible to use the existing joist hangers (ceiling binders) instead of putting new RSJ or flitched beams? Also, it is possible to splice joint flitched beams?

Would this still be possible with a fink truss roof?

Thank you for great video. Can you attach shelving to gable wall or do you need to also include that in SE calculation?

To create the flitch beam could the existing Binder beam, that's set in the gable ends, be used? Could you just sandwich your new steel between the binder & the new length of timber to create the flitch beam?

these are excellent videos. can I ask what software you use to make them.

Hi, thank you for the time you take out to make these videos. Some companies just lay 4 by 3 timber down, nail that to the beams on the floor then put flooring down on that. Is that ok for light storage or will it causes problems?

Great video. What is the connection between the fitch beam and the wall?

Hi there I've been thinking of creating space in my loft for a long time now but I'm not syre of how to go about it I would really like to do it myself for the experience And to cut down the cost I enjoy DIY too

Hello Robin I have watched my of your video clips and they have been a great help, thankyou. one question you keep referring a loft conversion to a storage space and not a living space is there a difference on how you convert the loft space?

A flitch beam. How thick dose the steel have to be and dose it have a be one continuous length or can it be in sections. Could it be that you could weld two short sessions together. Cracking videos.👍

Excellent video, very informative but.. It's a bit unfair with the "cowboy loft storage companies".. We do quite a bit of work in both truss roof houses and older hand cut roof houses. When we offer to do the job properly by ensuring there is more strength in the exsisting ceiling the cost goes up and we almost always loose out to other firms.. If we just offer the customer a timber raise and slap some boards on top we normally win the job. People only seem to care about how much it costs, wether or not it's safe doesn't come into it!! You wouldn't belive the amout of people we quote that say "cant you just nail the boards the the joists?" or "why raise the floor when you can just cut out of the joists for cables". Clearly we refuse but that's what we have to deal with with our customers. I've been in more truss roof houses than I'd like to mention where the owner, or worse, the actual builder, has cut through trussess to fit the loft hatch in then they complain that their ceiling has cracked!!! The market (IE the customers) push companies to do a "cowboy" job becasue they just don't want to pay to do it properly.

Can you use 2x4s from ceiling rafters to hang as support to ceiling joist? would that be too much weight?

Where R u based, I'm in need of a se

What is this program you are using?

So you’re telling me I have to get 4m joists up through the loft hatch?!